Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa ( Wileman, 1910 )

Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao & Derzhinsky, Yevgeniy A., 2020, Two new species of the subgenus Conicornuta Volynkin, 2019 of the genus Ammatho Walker, 1855 from China and northern Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Erebidae Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4878 (1), pp. 182-188 : 184-188

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.9

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64E48222-1069-4419-9517-53A978B66BB8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4560553

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scientific name

Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa ( Wileman, 1910 )
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Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa ( Wileman, 1910) View in CoL

( Figs 8–11 View FIGURES 1–11 , 15 View FIGURES 12–15 , 21 View FIGURES 16–21 )

Miltochrista convexa Wileman, 1910 , The Entomologist 43 (567): 223 (Type locality: [ Taiwan] “ Formosa ... Kanshirei ”).

= Asura cruciata Matsumura, 1927 , Journal of the College of Agriculture , Hokkaido Imperial University 19 (1): 70, pl. 5, fig. 3 (Type locality: [ Taiwan] “Formosa ... Horisha”).

Type material examined. Lectotype of Miltochrista convexa (designated herein): male ( Figs 8 View FIGURES 1–11 , 15 View FIGURES 12–15 ), “ ♂ Kanshirei, | Formosa. | 1,000 ft. | 16.IV.1906 | A.E. Wileman.”/“ Miltochrista | taiwana | convexa | Type ♂. sp. n.”/“Wileman Coll. | B.M. 1929.-261.”/“762 T +”/round label with a red circle “Type”/“ Arctiidae | genitalia slide | No. 5271 ♂ ”/ label with QR-code and unique number “NHMUK010604444” (Coll. NHMUK). Paralectotype: female, “ ♀ Kan-shirei, | Formosa. | 1,000 ft. | 17.IV.1906 | A.E. Wileman.”/“Koanania | IV.17.1906 ♀ ”/ Miltochrista | convexa | sp. n. | Type ♀ ”/“Wileman Coll. | B.M. 1929.-261.”/round label with a red circle “Type”/label with QR-code and unique number “ NHMUK 010604443” (Coll. NHMUK). Photographs of the holotype (by monotypy) of Asura cruciata ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1–11 ): female, “HORISHA | Formosa | - - 1917”/“ Asura cruciata ”/“-type | Asura | cruciata | Mats. 1927”/“Type | Matsumura” (Coll. EIHU).

Other material examined. Series of specimens of both sexes from various counties of Taiwan (Colls MWM / ZSM and NHMUK).

Remark. In the original description, Matsumura (1927) cited one male specimen, whereas the type specimen deposited in EIHU ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1–11 ) is a female.

Distribution. Endemic to Taiwan Island.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

EIHU

Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Ammatho

Loc

Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa ( Wileman, 1910 )

Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao & Derzhinsky, Yevgeniy A. 2020
2020
Loc

Asura cruciata

Matsumura 1927
1927
Loc

Miltochrista convexa

Wileman 1910
1910
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