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Bellulia kareni Fibiger 2008

  • 1. School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China. E-mail: hanhuilin @ aliyun. com & Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
  • 2. Laboratory of Entomology, Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok- 22, 690022, Russia.

Description

Bellulia kareni species-group.

Members of the B. kareni species-group are pale-coloured moths with yellowish reniform; in the male genitalia the saccus triangular; the valvae are asymmetrical; ampullae are asymmetrical, forming circle, right valva larger than left one; tegumen ventrally fused with fultura superior with a prominent, log-like process on each side; left process free, rounded apically; right process fused at both ends; aedeagus curved subapically and subbasally, not obviously tapered towards apex; the vesica with a row of more than 5 triangular cornuti.

Checklist

B. kareni Fibiger, 2008

B. tenebrosa sp. n.

B. clara sp. n.

Key to the species of the kareni species-group

1. Antemedial line blackish grey; process of costa not thumb-shaped............................................... 2

– Antemedial line light brownish grey; process of costa slender, thumb-shaped............................ B. clara sp. n.

2. Antemedial line rather broad; process of costa short and straight cone-shaped, protruding from exterior half of costa........................................................................................... … B. tenebrosa sp. n.

– Antemedial line rather broad; process of costa horn-shaped, protruding from medial part of costa................ B. kareni

Notes

Published as part of Han, Hui Lin & Kononenko, Vladimir S., 2021, Six new species of the genus Bellulia Fibiger, 2008 from China and Cambodia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Hypenodinae). Taxonomic study of Micronoctuini Contribution III, pp. 117-130 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4561447

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fibiger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Bellulia
Species
kareni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bellulia kareni Fibiger, 2008 sec. Han & Kononenko, 2021

References

  • Fibiger, M. (2008) Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae. Zootaxa, 1867 (1), 1 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1867.1.1