taxonID	type	description	language	source
2937B6594FF85503A2C1FFC16A3E1580.taxon	description	Description. Adult. Wingspan 29.0 – 38.5 mm. The color of head, dorsal side of thorax, patagia, tegulae, and forewings nearly white. Antennae black-brown and linear. Proboscis well developed, with the labial palpus extending upward. Forehead smooth and devoid of protrusions. Compound eyes large. Two pairs of prominent black spots located in disc area of thorax, patagia with pair of black spots; each side of metathorax displaying a cluster of radiating white hairs. Abdomen mostly black; several segments of abdominal base adorned with brushes on dorsal side; anal tuft white, extending straight out from the posterior end of abdomen; tufts of hair arranged on lateral sides of abdomen white at distal half. Legs generally black, with white ring at each segment on the base of tarsus. Forewings slightly narrow, with scattered black, metallic blue glossy dots, blocks, or stripes. Hindwings broad, grayish-brown or partially light brown. Male genitalia. Uncus long with a simple structure; tegumen relatively wide; valva regular, with slight protrusions and absent harpe; vinculum slender; saccus shaped like a “ V ”; aedeagus cylindrical, featuring a tie-shaped vesica and moderately abundant cornuti. Female genitalia. Papillae anales nail-shaped and slightly flattened; anterior and posterior apophysis processes relatively slender; ductus bursae short and simple; corpus bursae relatively regular in shape, with longitudinal folds and no appendix bursae.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
2937B6594FF85503A2C1FFC16A3E1580.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei (Fig. 22).	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E261C19C2F1A5CFDB423B3549F720676.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4, 10, 14, 16, 17 – 18, 22, 24, Table 2 Chinese common name 安南飘夜蛾 (Vietnamese Fluttering Noctuid)	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E261C19C2F1A5CFDB423B3549F720676.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Xizang); Vietnam.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E1B0F920BEEE5606A414ADF9083B17F0.taxon	description	Figs 5, 6, 11, 22	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E1B0F920BEEE5606A414ADF9083B17F0.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Brunei, Malaysia (Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra).	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
70ECD54940905732AE8C8B9F4A57B7F2.taxon	description	Figures 7, 8, 12, 15, 19 – 21, 22, 25, Table 2 Chinese common name 飘夜蛾 (Fluttering Noctuid)	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
70ECD54940905732AE8C8B9F4A57B7F2.taxon	description	Supplementary description. Female genitalia (Fig. 15). Papillae anales broad and thick, nail-shaped. Apophyses anteriores thick, while the apophyses posteriores thin and approximately equal in length. Ostium bursae relatively straight. Ductus bursae slightly short, with thick anterior half. Antrum cylindrical, strongly sclerotized, extending to membranous and spirally twisted posterior end. Corpus bursae slender, slightly curved, and tie-shaped, covered with fine folds.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
70ECD54940905732AE8C8B9F4A57B7F2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Yunnan, Xizang); India, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E93E944073AD5598AD5CF466D3E03F23.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 9, 13, 22, 23 Chinese common name 小飘夜蛾 (Tiny Fluttering Noctuid)	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E93E944073AD5598AD5CF466D3E03F23.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species closely resembles the three species in the genus Clethrorasa, but it can be distinguished based on the following characteristics (these characteristics are highly similar among Clethrorasa spp.): In terms of external morphology, this species exhibits a smaller body size (wingspan 24 – 30 mm vs 29.0 – 38.5 mm), with mostly grayish-white forewings and relatively small but numerous black spots. The veins R and M 1 of the hindwings are relatively short, close to 1 / 3 of the hindwing length (Fig. 23). The dorsal surface of abdomen is off-white instead of mostly black. In male genitalia, the uncus is straight and shaped like a ball rod rather than a sickle; the tegumen is helmet-shaped rather than tongue-shaped; the valva is relatively narrow and not very developed; the saccus is in a ‘ ’ U’ ’ shape instead of a ‘ ’ V’ ’ shape, with a smooth bottom; the juxta is shaped like a bull’s head instead of a claw; the aedeagus is relatively short and thick, with a well-developed vesica with multiple medial diverticula; the cornuti more slender and clustered in two distinct patches. In female genitalia, the papillae anales are relatively wide, the ductus bursae is relatively unsclerotized, the corpus bursae is relatively short, long pouch-shaped rather than tie-shaped, and has a strong, hardened spinal signum on the inner side.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E93E944073AD5598AD5CF466D3E03F23.taxon	description	Description. Adult (Figs 1, 2). Wingspan 24 – 30 mm. Head generally white; antennae blackish-brown. Dorsal side of thorax white, with four large purple-black spots; patagium white, with two prominent black spots located on the distal half; tegula white. Abdomen thin off-white, with a slight brownish tuft of hair at three terminal segments. Forewings white, with scattered black spots; transverse lines consisting of black spots, which are mostly shortband-shaped in costal margin area, the basal line only present as a black dot; antemedial line double, inner line formed by two black dots, exterior line by three black dots; median line double, formed by two black bands at inner and exterior lines, weakly incurved in inner margin area; postmedial line double, incurved posterior to end of cell, inner line formed by eight black dots or short bands, exterior line by seven black dots or short bands, the triangle spots at costal and inner margin areas are the largest; subterminal line parallel to postmedial line, formed by seven black dots; terminal line thin consisting of triangular black dots; orbicular spot medium, circular black dot; reniform spot large and black; fringe white with black patches. Hindwings pale-grayish with grayish-brown marginal shade darkest towards apex and costal and termen margins; discal spot indistinct; vein indistinct, brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 9). Uncus flattened, hook-shaped, apically nearly straight. Tegumen short and broad, shoulder helmet-shaped; dorsal lobe of tegumen covered in granules inside; subscaphium droplet-shaped; medial lobe of tegumen large, swollen. Valva sclerotized and narrow; costa shaped as a narrow strip, extending to cucullus, basal part incurved arc-shaped; sacculus short and irregular square-shaped; sacculus process narrow band-shaped, gradually widening apically, especially exceeding costa before cucullus; cucullus excurved arc-shaped. Juxta sclerotized, bullhead-shaped. Vinculum U-shaped; saccus broad tongue-shaped. Aedeagus cylindrical straight, gradually narrowing posteriorly; coecum short and coars; carina weakly sclerotized. Vesica membranous with three cornuti at middle part; diverticula short and smooth, nipple-shaped; subdiverticula bifurcated, one incurved and without cornuti, another short, covered with about eighteen cornuti; base of vesica ejaculatorius covered with thick graniculi, and rather expanded. Female genitalia (Fig. 13). Papillae anales petal-shaped, sclerotized. Apophyses anteriores and posteriores broad and approximately equal in length. Ostium bursae flat and straight. Ductus bursae membranous, curved, with oval-shaped swelling posteriorly. Corpus bursae long, pouch-shaped, curved towards one side in the middle, with a strong sclerotized signa plate in the middle of inner side. Appendix bursae produced at the posterior part of corpus bursae.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E93E944073AD5598AD5CF466D3E03F23.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi).	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
E93E944073AD5598AD5CF466D3E03F23.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet chinensis is assigned to reflect the species’ current distribution, which is exclusively recorded in southeastern China yet exhibits broad occupancy across this region.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
FECFB2C63A3159B0AA1EC8118EAC37B1.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Minclethrorasa chinensis sp. nov.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
FECFB2C63A3159B0AA1EC8118EAC37B1.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new genus is closely related to Clethrorasa in coloration and wing shape but can be unambiguously distinguished by both external morphology and genitalic structures, as comprehensively detailed in Table 1.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
FECFB2C63A3159B0AA1EC8118EAC37B1.taxon	description	Description. Adult. Wingspan 24.0 – 30.0 mm. The color of head, dorsal side of thorax, patagia, tegulae, and forewings generally white. Antennae black-brown and linear. Proboscis well developed, with the labial palpus extending upward. Forehead smooth and devoid of protrusions. Compound eyes large. Two pairs of prominent black spots located in disc area of thorax, patagia with pair of black spots; each side of metathorax displaying a cluster of radiating white hairs. Abdomen off-white; several segments of abdominal base adorned with brushes on dorsal side; anal tuft white, extending straight out from the posterior end of abdomen; tufts of hair arranged on lateral sides of abdomen white at distal half. Legs partially white, with white ring at each segment on the base of tarsus. Forewings slightly narrow, scattered with black, metallic blue glossy dots, blocks, or stripes. Hindwings broad, mostly off-white, with light brown outer 1 / 4. Male genitalia. Uncus flattened, hook-shaped; tegumen broad, dorsal lobe covered in granules; subscaphium droplet-shaped; valva fairly regular, with slight protrusions and absent harpe; vinculum slender; saccus U-shaped; aedeagus cylindrical, featuring a well-developed vesica with multiple medial diverticula and moderately abundant cornuti. Female genitalia. Papillae anales petal-shaped; anterior and posterior apophysis processes relatively slender; ductus bursae membranous, short and simple; corpus bursae long, pouch-shaped, with longitudinal folds and a strong sclerotized signa plate.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
FECFB2C63A3159B0AA1EC8118EAC37B1.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Fig. 22).	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
FECFB2C63A3159B0AA1EC8118EAC37B1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new genus is named Minclethrorasa, formed by combining the generic name Clethrorasa with the prefix min- (derived from Latin ‘ minus ’, meaning ‘ smaller’). This nomenclature reflects its morphological similarity to Clethrorasa while emphasizing its diminutive body size.	en	Qin, Yue, Zhu, Jiang, Han, Huilin (2025): Taxonomic review of the genus Clethrorasa Hampson, 1908 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from southeastern China. ZooKeys 1248: 281-294, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1248.145465
