Kailasha effracta ( Walker, 1854 )

Ulziijargal, Bayarsaikhan, Na, Sol-Moon & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2017, Revision of the genus Kailasha (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Oriental region, with description of one new species, Zootaxa 4216 (1), pp. 85-93 : 86-87

Kailasha effracta ( Walker, 1854)

Barsine effracta Walker, 1854 , List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2: 546. TL: Nepal.

Bizone effracta Walker : Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887, Cat. Moths Ind. 2: 107, No. 663.

Cyana effracta Walker : Hampson, 1894, Fauna Br. India, Moths 2: 57.

Chionaema effracta Walker : Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 2: 298, 300–301, fig. 217.

Chionaema pusilla Wileman, 1910 , Entomologist 43: 177. TL: Kanshirei.

Chionaema effracta Walker : Hampson, 1914, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1: 617.

Chionaema effracta Walker : Draudt, 1914, Macrolep. World 10: 169, pl. 16g.

Chionaema effracta sumatrana van Eecke, 1927 , Zool. Meded. 10: 104–105 (van Eecke, 1926, Zool. Meded. 9: pl. 4, figs. 12a– b). TL: Sumatra, Fort de Kock.

Chionaema effracta f. karenkonis Matsumura: Inoue, 1988, Tyô to Ga, 39 (2): 99–118. TL: Formosa, Karenko.

Chionaema effracta Walker : Fang, 2000, Fauna Sin., Ins. 19: 156–157, pl. 4: 5.

Cyana effracta Walker : Inoue, 1988, Tyo to Ga 39 (2): 113.

Cyana effracta Walker : Holloway, 2001, Moths of Borneo 7: 339, pl. 1, figs. 137, 146.

Cyana effracta Walker : Černy & Pinratana, 2009, Moths of Thailand 6: 54, pl. 11: 110a, 110b.

Cyana effracta Walker : Bucsek, 2012, Erebidae , Arctiinae ( Lithosiini , Arctiini ) of Malay Peninsula-Malaysia: 105, pl. 18: 260, 260a.

Kailasha effracta Walker : Kirti & Singh, 2015, Arctiid Moths of India 1: 79.

Description. Adult ( Figs. 1 a, b). Length of forewing 10–11 mm in male, 15–16 mm in female. Frons and vertex pure white; labial palpi fuscous gray, upturned not extending beyond frons; antennae, with fuscous cilia. Patagia pure white with gray band. Tegulae pure white, with transversal red band. Forewing ground pure white; subbasal and antemedial lines red; rhomboid antemedial spot red; medial line waved, shortly forked at costa, with hair fringe at costa; postmedian line red, finished in middle part, from middle lead to one spot and short band to costa; subterminal series of red three spots; terminal series of red-yellow small spots; fringe white-yellow. Hindwing pure white, with pale brown antemedial and subterminal lines in both sexes; one dark discoidal spot in both sexes; fringe white-yellow. Abdomen slender, dark, covered with white scales.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 7 ). Uncus arrowhead-shaped, with weakly setose and small spine at top, 0.5 times shorter than tegumen; valvae elongated, stout, apex rounded, with short and small angular process below apex; costa of valva weakly sclerotized, with strongly concave basal area; saccular process short, with rounded apex; juxta Xshaped; aedeagus stout, weakly sclerotized in distal part; vesica with one group of short spines and one group of stout spines, which almost same length with previously mentioned short spines and with weakly scobinated area.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 12 ). Apophyses posteriores and anteriores slender, same length; ductus bursae weakly sclerotized, stout, funnel-shaped; corpus bursae lamp-shaped, ringed by strongly sclerotized spines in cervix of bursae and a large coffee-bean shaped signum in center of bursae.

Material examined. CAMBODIA: 2 females, Samkos (N12˚12′39″, E102˚53′55″), 17–20.II.2012 (Y.S. Bae et al.) ; 1 female, Cambodia, Samkos (N12˚12′48.1″, E102˚54′12.5″), 6. II.2015 (Y.S. Bae et al.) . THAILAND: 2 males, Prov. Mae Hong Son, Soppong , 21.VII.2009 (Y.S. Bae & D.Y. Chae), Gen. Slide No. INU-1573, 1574 ; 1 female, ditto, 26.VII.2009 (Y.S. Bae & D.Y. Chae), Gen. Slide No. INU-1575 . VIETNAM: 1 female, Prov. NinhBinh, NP. Cucphoung , 22–25.X.2007 (Y.S. Bae et al.).

Distribution. Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, N.E. Himalaya, Nepal, China, Taiwan.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Adults of genus Kailasha spp. 1 a. Kailasha effracta, male, Thailand. 1 b. ditto, female, Cambodia. 2 a. K. angkorensis, male, Cambodia. 2 b. ditto, female, Cambodia. 3 a. K. babensis sp. n., male, Vietnam. 3 b ditto, female, Vietnam. 4. K. pellucida, male, Java. 5. K. pseudoeffracta, female, India. 6. K. gulmargensis, male, India.

FIGURES 7 – 11. Male genitalia of genus Kailasha spp. 7. Kailasha effracta, Thailand. 8. K. angkorensis, Cambodia. 9. K. babensis sp. n., Vietnam. 10. K. pellucida, Java. 11. K. gulmargensis, India.

FIGURES 12 – 15. Female genitalia of genus Kailasha spp. 12. Kailasha effracta, Cambodia. 13. K. angkorensis, Cambodia. 14. K. babensis sp. n., Vietnam. 15. K. pseudoeffracta, India.