Cabardites varanagara Volynkin & Černý, 2021

Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 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), pp. 529-546 : 545

Cabardites varanagara Volynkin & Černý , sp. n.

( Figs 18 , 41 )

Type material. Holotype ( Figs 18 , 41 ): male, “ Thailand, Changwat Nan, 30 km E of Pua , 1700m, 20.VIII.1999, leg. T. Csővári & L. Mikus ”/“Leihgabe Museum Witt”, slide AV5590 Volynkin ( MWM / ZSM, ex coll. CKC).

Diagnosis. Forewing length is 11 mm in the holotype male. Cabardites varanagara sp. n. is the closest relative of C. tiendung sp. n., from which it can be externally distinguished by the slightly less elongated forewing apex and the postmedial line being angled at costa (whereas in C. tiendung sp. n. that is smoothly curved). The male genitalia of C. varanagara sp. n. differ from those of C. tiendung sp. n. by the valva costa being slightly more convex subbasally and less curved dorsad subapically, conspicuously shorter distal costal lobe-like process, slightly smaller distal membranous lobe of valva, slightly narrower distal section of sacculus, distal diverticulum of aedeagus vesica bearing two slightly shorter robust blade-like cornuti and one small spine (whereas in C. tiendung sp. n. the distal diverticulum bears three robust blade-like cornuti, which are slightly longer), and conspicuously broader medial cluster of short but robust spines.

Female is unknown.

Distribution. North Thailand (Nan Province).

Etymology. Varanagara was the capital of the kingdom created by Paña Thera Taeng in the territory of the current Nan Province in the XIIIth century.

Figures

FIGURES 11–20. Cabardites spp.: adults. Depositories of the specimens: 11, 12, 15, 17–20 in MWM/ZSM (18 and 19 – ex coll. CKC); 13 in MNHN (©); 14, 16 in NHMUK (©).

FIGURES 39–42. Cabardites spp. (39–41) and the type species of Pseudoadites (42): male genitalia. The specimens are deposited in MWM/ZSM (39 and 41 – ex coll. CKC).