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Indiania Kirti, Joshi & N. Singh 2014

  • 1. Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia
  • 2. Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China * Corresponding author. E-mail: volynkin _ a @ mail. ru
  • 3. Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia

Description

Genus Indiania Kirti, Joshi & N. Singh, 2014

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Indiania Kirti, Joshi & N. Singh, in Kirti, N. Singh & Joshi, 2014, Tinea 23 (1): 42 (Type species: Miltochrista eccentropis Meyrick, 1894, by original designation).

Diagnosis. Small moths with white, yellow or orange coloration and black pattern similar to that of Ammatho (Striatella). The male genitalia are also characterised by the elongate, entire, asymmetrical valvae with robust thorn-like apical processes being distal costal processes, the absence of a medial costal process, the basally setose sacculus with short trigonal distal process, and the aedeagus vesica bearing fields of granulation and patches of spinules or thorn-like cornuti. The main autapomorphy in the male genitalia is strongly asymmetrical valvae apexes. The female genitalia are characterised by the presence of an antevaginal plate having a narrow and heavily sclerotised medial plate and broad and strongly dentate lateral lobes. In addition, the posterior section of corpus bursae is narrowed, weakly sclerotised on the left and strongly scobinated on the right; the anterior section of corpus bursae is evenly scobinated; the appendix bursae is large, broad, hook-like curved distally and bears fields of robust spinulose scobination.

Distribution. The genus is distributed in Nepal, northeastern India, Myanmar, southern China, and Indochina including Malay Peninsula.

Number of species. The genus comprises four valid species and one subspecies.

Notes

Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao & Ivanova, Maria S., 2019, An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Part 1. Barsine Walker, 1854 sensu lato, Asura Walker, 1854 and related genera, with descriptions of twenty new genera, ten new subgenera and a check list of taxa of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex, pp. 14-92 in Ecologica Montenegrina 26 on page 65, DOI: 10.37828/em.2019.26.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13355630

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kirti, Joshi & N. Singh
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Indiania
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Indiania Kirti, 2014 sec. Volynkin, Huang & Ivanova, 2019