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Issue: Vol. 4319 No. 2: 12 Sept. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4319.2.10
Page range: 383–385
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Microlithosia Daniel, 1954 from India (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector—08, BHC, Patna-800026, Bihar, India.
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector—08, BHC, Patna-800026, Bihar, India.
Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Lepidoptera Erebidae Arctiinae

Abstract

The genus Microlithosia Daniel, 1954 is a member of the subtribe Lithosiina, tribe Lithosiini of the subfamily Arctiinae and family Erebidae. It was described as a monotypic genus for its type species, M. shaowuica Daniel, 1954 from SE China (Fujian, Shaowu).Recently, the genus was reviewed by Dubatolov & Kishida (2012) with the inclusion of four species: M. shaowuica Daniel,1954 (from its type locality, and additionally from South Central China (Hunan)), M. nanlingica Dubatolov, Kishida & Wang, 2012 from South-East China (Guangdong), M. umbripuncta (de Joannis 1928) from North Vietnam and Thailand (Chiang Mai, Chanthaburi, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kanchanaburi, Chumphon, Phitsanulok), and M. decreta (Butler 1877) from Borneo and Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima). Later on, Bucsek (2012, 2014) described two new species, M. pseudodecreta Bucsek, 2012 and M. johara Bucsek, 2014 both from Peninsular Malaysia. Kirti and Singh (2016) subsequently added a further species, M. champhaiensis Singh & Kirti, from India (Mizoram, Champhai). So at present, Microlithosia comprises seven species, with single from India.

 

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