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Cabardites Volynkin & Cerny 2021

  • 1. Northeast Forestry University, College of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China. & zhaotingting 11 @ foxmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4139 - 6120
  • 2. Northeast Forestry University, College of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China. & wujun 5911 @ foxmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8032 - 2522
  • 3. Northeast Forestry University, College of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China. & Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China. & Northeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.

Description

Genus Cabardites Volynkin & Černý, 2021

Cabardites Volynkin & Černý, 2021, Zootaxa 4915(4): 530.

Type species: Asura limbata Wileman, 1911.

The members of the genus are small-sized moths; among them, the female adult is slightly larger than the male adult. The head is white or pale brown; the antenna is filiform, pale brown. The thorax, patagium, and tegula are off-white to brown. The forewing has a large brown area; the basal line, subbasal line, and antemedial line are milky white; the outer margin region is milky white, with two or three brown patches.

The male genitalia of the genus are characterized as follows: the valva is symmetrical with a medial costal process and trifurcated apically; the uncus is slender; the tegumen is slightly narrow and triangular; the aedeagus is weakly curved; the vesica has a clump of cornuti or a small band of spinules. The female genitalia have the following characteristics: the papilla analis is wide; the ductus bursae is sclerotized and stubby; the corpus bursae is covered with large areas of small spines or flecks.

Notes

Published as part of Zhao, Ting-Ting, Wu, Jun & Han, Hui-Lin, 2023, Two new species and a new record of the genus Cabardites Volynkin & Černý (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from China, pp. 369-376 in Zootaxa 5339 (4) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8309146

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Volynkin & Cerny
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Cabardites
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cabardites Volynkin, 2021 sec. Zhao, Wu & Han, 2023

References

  • Volynkin, A. V. & Cerny, K. (2021) Cabardites, a new genus for the " Adites " maculata (Poujade, 1886) species-group, with descriptions of five new species from northern Indochina and eastern China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Zootaxa, 4915 (4), 529 - 546. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4915.4.4
  • Wileman, A. E. (1911) New Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Formosa. The entomologist, 44 (574), 109 - 111.