Fangeilema (Fangeilema) lucida ( Fang, 2000 ), 2023

Volynkin, Anton V. & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2023, Two new genera, two new subgenera, and four new species of Lithosiina from China and northern Indochina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 68, pp. 140-154 : 142

Fangeilema (Fangeilema) lucida ( Fang, 2000) , comb. n.

( Figs 1, 2 , 19 , 31 )

Strysopha lucida Fang, 2000 , Fauna Sinica. Insecta , 19: 249 (in Chinese), 542 (in English), text fig. 171, pl. XII: fig. 9 (Type locality: “ Yunnan Lushui , 2300m ”).

Material examined. CHINA: 1 male, 1 female, [Yunnan Province, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Lushui County, Pianma] Upper Burma: Hpimaw. Fort, Nr. Myitkyina. 8000 ft. Capt. A.E. Swann [leg.], unique iDs: NHMUK010292453 , NHMUK010292454 ( NHMUK) .

Note. The species was tentatively placed in Dolgoma by Dubatolov & Zolotuhin (2011) and subsequently considered as a member of the genus by Singh et al. (2019).

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 14.5 mm in the male and 16.0 mm in the female examined. The species is characterised by the shiny bluish-white forewing ground colour in male and silky creamy white one in female. The detailed comparison of the genitalia of both sexes with F. amoena sp. n. is provided below in the diagnosis of the latter species.

Distribution. Currently known from north-western Yunnan Province of China ( Daniel 1954, as Systropha xanthocraspis , partim.).

Figures

Figures 1–8. Fangeilema (1–6) and Kuatunittia (7, 8), adults. Depositories of the specimens: 1 and 2 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 3–6, and 8 in MWM/ZSM; 7 in ZFMK (photo by V. Zolotuhin, by courtesy of V. Dubatolov).

Figures 19–22. Fangeilema, male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 19 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 20–22 in MWM/ZSM.

Figures 31–34. Fangeilema (31–33) and Kuatunittia, female genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 31 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 32–34 in MWM/ZSM