Published November 22, 2021 | Version v1

Cyana divakara

  • 1. Altai State University, Lenina Avenue 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia
  • 2. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str., 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius- 21, Lithuania. E-mail: saldrasa @ gmail. com
  • 3. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China. E-mail: huangsiyao 2007 @ aliyun. com * Corresponding author. E-mail: monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com

Description

Cyana divakara (Moore, [1866])

(Figs 3–6, 10, 13)

B.[izone] divakara Moore, [1866], Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1865: 798, pl. 42, fig. 9 (Type locality: [NE India] “Darjeeling”).

Type material examined. Lectotype (Fig. 3): male, “Darjiling 1864” / “ Coll. Staudinger ” / “657” / pink square label (MFN); paralectotype (Fig. 4): female, “Darjiling 1869” / “coll. Atkinson ” / “ Coll. Staudinger ” / “875.” / “ Chionaema divakara Moore by Hmpsn” (MFN).

Remark. The type series of Bizone divakara is mixed and contains a specimen of C. britomartis. In order to stabilize the nomenclature the male specimen matching the original illustration (Moore 1865 [1866]: pl. 43, fig. 9) is designated herein as lectotype (Fig. 3).

Distribution. Northeast India (Sikkim, north of West Bengal and Assam), Nepal and Bhutan (Hampson 1900; Singh et al. 2020).

FIigures 12–14. Cyana spp.: female genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 12 in WIGJ; 13 and 14 in MWM/ZSM.

Notes

Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Saldaitis, Aidas & Huang, Si-Yao, 2021, Cyana shirakawai, a new species from south-eastern Xizang, China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 28-33 in Ecologica Montenegrina 48 on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.37828/em.2021.48.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13250250

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MFN
Scientific name authorship
Moore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Cyana
Species
divakara
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cyana divakara (Moore, 1866) sec. Volynkin, Saldaitis & Huang, 2021

References

  • Moore, F. (1865 [1866]) On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1865 (3), 755 - 823 + pls 41 - 43.
  • Hampson, G. F. (1900) Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 2, 1 - 590.
  • Singh, N., Volynkin, A. V., Kirti, J. S., Datta, H. S. & Ivanova, M. S. (2020) A review of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 from India, with descriptions of five new species and three new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Zootaxa, 4738 (1), 1 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4738.1.1