Miltochrista tinsukia, Volynkin & Saldaitis & Müller, 2022

Volynkin, Anton V., Saldaitis, Aidas & Müller, Günter C., 2022, Five new species of the genus Miltochrista Hübner from Indochina, India and China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), Ecologica Montenegrina 59, pp. 10-23 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.59.2
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:409A7117-0188-4E3F-B933-9BC5BB339EBE
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8044231
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/71D0E672-CE61-42D8-8DA3-B983B792EA0B
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:71D0E672-CE61-42D8-8DA3-B983B792EA0B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Miltochrista tinsukia
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Miltochrista tinsukia sp. n.

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Diagnosis. The forewing length is 9.0 mm in the male holotype. Miltochrista tinsukia is externally reminiscent of M. ekliptika but distinguished by the pale ochreous forewing ground colour (it is maize yellow in the congener), and the somewhat more oblique medial transverse line of the forewing. The male genital capsules of the two species are similar but in M. tinsukia , the uncus is proximally broader than in M. ekliptika , the distal section of the costa is broader and bearing a broader and more upcurved distal process. Compared to M. ekliptika , the phallus of the new species has a narrower coecum directed ventrally (it is directed distally-ventrally in the congener), and the carina is somewhat more protruding distally. In the vesica, the cornutus of M. tinsukia is spine-like whereas it is sword blade-shaped in M. ekliptika .

The female is unknown.

Distribution. The new species is currently known only from its type locality in eastern Assam State of India.

Etymology. The specific epithet is homonymic of the type locality of the new species, Tinsukia District of Assam, India. The name is a noun in the nominative singular in apposition.