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Cyana javanica Butler 1877

Description

Cyana javanica (Butler, 1877)

(Pl. 2: 8a, 8b; 3: 8; 5: 8)

Bizone javanica Butler, 1877, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877: 338; Hampson, 1896, 4: 493. TS: Java.

Chionaema javanica: Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 2: 309, fig. 224.

Chionaema javanica sumatrensis van Eecke, 1927, Zool. Meded. 10 (8): 100–101 (van Eecke, 1926, Zool. Meded. 9: pl. 4, figs. 10a–b). TL: Sumatra, Fort de Kock.

Cyana javanica: Černy & Pinratana, 2009, Moths of Thailand 6: 49, pl. 9: 99; Bucsek, 2012: 100, pl. 17: 247.

Diagnosis. Wingspan ♂ 34–38 mm, ♀ 39–42 mm. This species shows extreme sexual dimorphism. C. javanica differs from congeners by having the forewing of male with acute angle below apex; post medial line forked at costa; two vertical, dark discoidal spots; forewing of female with antemedial and postmedial lines edged dark; one dark discoidal spot; in male genitalia, apex of valvae asymmetrically bifurcated, upper process irregular, broader than lower process, lower process slender, apex blunted; saccular process tapered, with sharply curved, short apical spine; distal end of aedeagus sclerotized, ringed with band of longer spines, and vesica with scobination; in female genitalia, corpus bursae globular, wrinkled near cervix of bursae, with large to small, irregular, two signa at center of bursae.

Material examined. 1♂, Cambodia, Pursat (N12˚05′8.4″, E103˚11′28.1″), 3.V.2010 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♂, Cambodia, Mondulkiri (N12˚57′47.8″, E107˚10′52.8″), 6.X.2010 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♂, Cambodia, Seima (N12˚10′48″, E106˚58′47″), 3.VII.2011 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♂, Cambodia, Seima (N12˚16′37″, E107˚03′57″), 10.XI.2011 (Y.S. Bae et al.), Gen. Slide No. INU-1076; 1♀, Cambodia, Seima (N12˚14′56.80″, E107˚03′17.10″), 15.VIII.2013 (Y.S. Bae et al.), Gen. Slide No. INU-1077; 1♀, Cambodia, Kep (N10˚29′25″, E104˚18′13″), 17.VII.2012 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♀, Cambodia, Kep (N10˚29′37.80″, E104˚18′5.40″), 19.VIII.2013 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 2♂, Cambodia, Samkos (N12˚12′47.8″, E102˚54′23.8″), 22.XII.2014 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♂, 1♀, Cambodia, Samkos (N12˚12′48.1″, E102˚54′12.7″), 24.XII.2014 (Y.S. Bae et al.).

Distribution. Cambodia (Kep, Mondulkiri, Pursat, Samkos, Seima), Myanmar, India, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore.

Remarks. This species was reported from Cambodia by Bae et al. (2012).

Notes

Published as part of Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2016, A review of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Cambodia, with description of new species, pp. 447-463 in Zootaxa 4114 (4) on pages 453-454, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/258082

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Cyana
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Butler
Species
javanica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cyana javanica Butler, 1877 sec. Bayarsaikhan & Bae, 2016

References

  • Hampson, G. F. (1900) Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosinae) in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 2, 590 pp.
  • Cerny, K. & Pinratana, A. (2009) Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, 283 pp.
  • Bucsek, K. (2012) Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malaya Peninsula-Malaysia. Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava, 170 pp.
  • Bae, Y. S., Ahn, N. H., Chu, Y. D. & Lee, H. (2012) Lepidoptera. In: Lee, W. S., Rhim, S. J., Choe, J. I. & Park, S. (Eds), Biodiversity of Cambodia - Cardamom Protected Forest & Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area. National Institute of Biological Resources and Incheon. pp. 87 - 92.