Published May 17, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Miltochrista artaxidia

  • 1. Altai State University, Lenina Av. 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia.
  • 2. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China. huangsiyao 2007 @ aliyun. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9859 - 9212
  • 3. N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russia. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4616 - 0988
  • 4. N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russia. & http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3878 - 4192
  • 5. N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, 163000, Arkhangelsk, Russia. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2955 - 3795

Description

The artaxidia species-group

Diagnosis. Externally, the species-group is characterized by the serrate antennae of females. In the male genitalia, the transtilla is weakly sclerotized, the harpe is very short, tubercle-like, the ventro-distal process of the valva is bilobate, the distal carinal processes of the aedeagus are short and have a smooth surface, and the vesica is relatively short and narrow. In the female genitalia, the antevaginal plate is wide, the ductus bursae bears a small sclerotized plate and clusters of spinulose scobination, and the appendix bursae is short, conical and directed laterally.

Notes

Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao, Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Bolotov, Ivan N. & Spitsyn, Vitaly M., 2021, Three new species of the genus Nudina Staudinger, 1887 from northern Indochina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 547-557 in Zootaxa 4970 (3) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4766858

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