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Cyana bianca

  • 1. Altai State University, Lenina Av. 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia; E-mails: volynkin _ a @ mail. ru, barsine @ yahoo. com & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Av., 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia & Corresponding author
  • 2. Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. E-mail: natura. cerny @ aon. at

Description

Cyana bianca (Walker, 1856)

(Figs 1, 11)

Bizone Bianca Walker, 1856, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 7: 1684 (Type locality: “Hindostan”).

Type material examined. Holotype (Figs 1, 11): male, “Hind[ostan]” / “ Bizone bianca type Walk.” / “ Bianca n.” / “Type” / “226” / “501” / “A, Walker"s type of Bizone bianca 7-1684” / “ TYPE LEP.: No. 429 Bizone bianca Walker HOPE DEPT. OXFORD ” (Coll. OUMNH).

Diagnosis. Forewing length is 13 mm in the male holotype. Cyana bianca (Fig. 1) is most similar externally to C. juliettae (Fig. 2) and C. carmina (Figs 3, 4), but can be distinguished by the red parts of its ante- and postmedial lines being less broadened posteriorly. In addition, its black outer margin of the antemedial line is stronger curved at costa than that of C. carmina. In the male genital capsule (Fig. 11), the valva apex is slightly broader than that of C. juliettae (Fig. 14) and C. carmina (Figs 12, 13). The vesica shape of C. bianca is most similar to that of C. carmina, but differs by its smaller dorsal medial diverticulum, narrower dorsal distal diverticulum covered with weaker spinules and granulation, larger apical diverticulum, smaller lateral diverticulum bearing narrower cluster of smaller spinules, and less granulated ventral distal diverticulum bearing smaller patch of spinules. The female is unknown.

Distribution. India (Walker 1856). The species" distribution needs clarification based on freshly collected materials.

Notes

Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2019, On the correct identification of Cyana bianca (Walker, 1856), with description of a new species and notes on the taxonomy of the Cyana insularis (Draudt, 1914) species-group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 53-61 in Ecologica Montenegrina 21 on page 54, DOI: 10.37828/em.2019.21.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13356264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TYPE, OUMNH
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Cyana
Species
bianca
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cyana bianca (Walker, 1856) sec. Volynkin & Černý, 2019

References

  • Walker, F. (1856) List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 7. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, pp. 1509 - 1808.