Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa
- 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. 1830763077 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9859 - 9212
- 3. Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov, Moskovskiy Av., 33, Vitebsk 210038 Belarus.
Description
Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa (Wileman, 1910)
(Figs 8–11, 15, 21)
Miltochrista convexa Wileman, 1910, The Entomologist 43 (567): 223 (Type locality: [Taiwan] “ Formosa ... Kanshirei ”).
= Asura cruciata Matsumura, 1927, Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University 19 (1): 70, pl. 5, fig. 3 (Type locality: [Taiwan] “Formosa ... Horisha”).
Type material examined. Lectotype of Miltochrista convexa (designated herein): male (Figs 8, 15), “ ♂ Kanshirei, | Formosa. | 1,000 ft. | 16.IV.1906 | A.E. Wileman.”/“ Miltochrista | taiwana | convexa | Type ♂. sp. n.”/“Wileman Coll. | B.M. 1929.-261.”/“762 T +”/round label with a red circle “Type”/“ Arctiidae | genitalia slide | No. 5271 ♂ ”/ label with QR-code and unique number “NHMUK010604444” (Coll. NHMUK). Paralectotype: female, “ ♀ Kan-shirei, | Formosa. | 1,000 ft. | 17.IV.1906 | A.E. Wileman.”/“Koanania | IV.17.1906 ♀ ”/ Miltochrista | convexa | sp. n. | Type ♀ ”/“Wileman Coll. | B.M. 1929.-261.”/round label with a red circle “Type”/label with QR-code and unique number “ NHMUK 010604443” (Coll. NHMUK). Photographs of the holotype (by monotypy) of Asura cruciata (Fig. 9): female, “HORISHA | Formosa | - - 1917”/“ Asura cruciata ”/“-type | Asura | cruciata | Mats. 1927”/“Type | Matsumura” (Coll. EIHU).
Other material examined. Series of specimens of both sexes from various counties of Taiwan (Colls MWM / ZSM and NHMUK).
Remark. In the original description, Matsumura (1927) cited one male specimen, whereas the type specimen deposited in EIHU (Fig. 9) is a female.
Distribution. Endemic to Taiwan Island.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wileman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Ammatho
- Species
- convexa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ammatho (Conicornuta) convexa (Wileman, 1910) sec. Volynkin, Huang & Derzhinsky, 2020
References
- Wileman, A. E. (1910) New Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Formosa. The Entomologist, 43 (567), 220 - 223.
- Matsumura, S. (1927) New species and subspecies of moths from the Japanese Empire. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 19 (1), 1 - 91.