Kailasha pellucida ( Rothschild, 1936 ) Rothschild, 1936

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 : 87

Kailasha pellucida ( Rothschild, 1936) , comb. n.

Chionaema pellucida Rothschild, 1936 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 17 (100): 487. TL: Java. Cyana pellucida Rothschild : Holloway, 2001, Moths of Borneo 7: 339 (note).

Description. Adult ( Fig. 4 ). Length of forewing 11 mm in male. Frons and vertex white; cilia on antennae, pale reddish yellow. Patagia and tegulae red-yellow. Ground color of forewing pure white; costal margin pale yellow, except black basal area; subbasal line band broad, pale red; antemedial line pale red, waved, shortly forked at costa; medial line pale red, waved, with 3 large, red discocellular patches and hair fringe at costa; post medial lines slender, S-shaped, pale red; subterminal line broad, pale red; terminal line pale yellow; fringe whitish yellow. Hindwing fuscous whitish yellow; costal margin and terminal line pale yellow; one dark discoidal spot; fringe whitish yellow. Abdomen slender, dark, covered with white scales.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 10 ). Uncus slender, with small spine at top, almost same length as tegumen; valvae triangular, apex rounded and membranous, with weakly setose; costa of valva sclerotized, with roundly convex middle area; two short and sclerotized process on the harpe, one towards the apex and semicircular, another dislocated middle part of harpe and nipple-shaped; saccular process short, broadened, with roundly angled apex; juxta suptrapezoid; aedeagus short, stout, sclerotized in distal end, with two short apical spines; vesica with one group of short spines and one group of long spines, which are more than 5 times longer than previously mentioned short spines.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Material examined. Type. 1 male, Singolangoe, Tengger, 5,000’, April.1934 (F.P.A. Kalis), BMNH(E) 1377275, Gen. Slide No. NHMUK-010354540.

Distribution. Java.

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.