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Issue: Vol. 5005 No. 2: 26 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.2.8
Page range: 227-233
Abstract views: 396
PDF downloaded: 15

A new species of the genus Aberrasine Volynkin & Huang from Xizang, China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
genitalia Himalaya lichen moth new species taxonomy Lepidoptera

Abstract

A new species of the genus Aberrasine Volynkin & S.-Y. Huang, 2019, Aberrasine tiani S.-Y. Huang, Volynkin, N. Singh & M. Wang, sp. nov. is described from southern Xizang, China. The species belongs to the A. strigivenata species-group having a characteristic reduced forewing pattern consisting of a medial transverse line and lengthwise strokes along veins. Adults and genitalia of the new and the similar species are illustrated.

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