Miltochrista ochracea ( Hampson, 1891 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao, 2022, On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 58, pp. 86-108 : 88-89

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.58.9

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urn:lsid-:zoo-bank-.org-:pub:EC827EB4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13240713

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scientific name

Miltochrista ochracea ( Hampson, 1891 )
status

 

Miltochrista ochracea ( Hampson, 1891) View in CoL , stat. n.

( Figs 3–6 View Figures 1–12 , 44 View Figures 43–46 , 60 View Figures 59–62 )

Lyclene ochracea Hampson, 1891 View in CoL , Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum, 8: 51, pl. 139, fig. 26 (Type locality: “the Nilgiri District of Southern India... The plateau, 6700 feet ” ( Hampson 1891: Preface and page 5)).

Type material examined. Lectotype (hereby designated) ( Fig. 3 View Figures 1–12 ): male, “Nilgiris. | Hampson Coll. | 89- 129” / “ Lyclene | ochracea | Hampson | type ♂ ” / “869. | 73” / red ring “Type” label / QR- code label with unique number “ NHMUK010598190 About NHMUK ” ( NHMUK) . Paralectotype: female, “Nilgiris. | Hampson Coll. | 89- 129” / “ Lyclene | ochracea | Hampson | type ♀ ” / “869. | 73” / red ring “Type” label / QR- code label with unique number “ NHMUK010598191 About NHMUK ” ( NHMUK) .

Additional material examined. INDIA: TAMIL NADU: 1 male, Nilgiris / Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1, unique number: NHMUK014173073 About NHMUK ( NHMUK) ; 1 female, [ Tiruchirappalli ] Indes Orient., Trichinopolu, R . P.J. Castets / Ex Oberthür Coll. Brit. Mus. 1927-3, unique number: NHMUK014173074 About NHMUK ( NHMUK) ; 1 male, Nilgiri Hills, Doda Betta , 10 km W Kotagiri, 2100m, 11°26'N, 76°50'E, 17.IV.1997, Sinyaev & Schintlmeister leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM GoogleMaps Arct. 2019-1076 (prepared by Volynkin) .

Notes. (1) The species is hereby revived from the synonymy with Arctelene rubricosa , comb. n. (2) Hampson (1891) described the species from both sexes. In order to stabilise the nomenclature, we hereby designate the male syntype labeled as “Type” and preserved in the NHMUK collection as lectotype.

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10–11 mm in males and 10 mm in females. Miltochrista ochracea is reminiscent of M. hogani sp. n., M. curvifascia , and species of the M. pseudoarcuata N. Singh & Kirti, 2016 M. paraarcuata N. Singh & Kirti, 2016 species pair (illustrated by Kirti & Singh 2016) and the genus Arctelene but can be recognised by the relatively short and broad forewing with ochreous-yellow ground colour. The male and female genitalia structures of M. ochracea are similar to M. miraculosa sp. n., the detailed comparison is provided above in the diagnosis of the latter species.

Distribution. South India (Tamil Nadu).

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Miltochrista

Loc

Miltochrista ochracea ( Hampson, 1891 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & Huang, Si-Yao 2022
2022
Loc

Lyclene ochracea

Hampson 1891
1891
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