Parvispinia caelestina ( Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001 ) Babics & Kononenko & Saldaitis, 2012

Babics, J., Kononenko, V. S. & Saldaitis, A., 2012, New genus and three new species of the subfamily Xyleninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Zootaxa 3509, pp. 55-68 : 60

Parvispinia caelestina ( Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001) , comb. n.

( Figs. 7, 8, 19, 27)

Atrachea caelestina Gyulai & Ronkay 2001 , Esperiana, Buchreihe zur Entomologie, 8:694, Pl. 33: 27–18. Holotype: male, China, Qinghai, Anemaqing Mts. , 10 km SO Xue Shan, N Dong Qing Gou, 3800m, Coll. P. Gyulai).

Material examined. Holotype: male, China, Qinghai, Anemaqing Mts., 10 km SO Xoe Shan, N Dong Qing Gou, 3800m, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai. /Dr. P. Gylai Hungary / Holotype Atrachea caelestina Gyulai & Ronkay 2001 / Atrachea caelestina sp.n. male, slide No. PGy1247. Paratype: female, China, Qinghai, Anemaqing Mts., 10 km SO Xoe Shan, N Dong Qing Gou, 3800m, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai. Dr. P. Gylai Hungary, slide No. PGy1205 (in coll. Ronkay).

Diagnosis. Imago of A. caelestina ( Figs. 7, 8) can be separated from other species by reddish-brown ground colour of forewing with distinct pale reddish spot behind reniform and reddish suffusion in antemedial and subterminal fields, dark-brown basal part of reniform and clear large, rounded claviform. In male genitalia ( Fig. 19) it differs by rectangular shape of juxta with two lateral extensions, broad harpe, clear broad triangular digitus; aedeagus with vesica somewhat extended medially, bearing two medial diverticula, in apical part armed by two rows of small needle-like cornuti. In female genitalia ( Fig. 27) papillae anales narrower compared with other species, antrum very shallow, cervix bursae weakly sclerotised, wrinkled.

Distribution and Bionomics. West China (Qinghai). The species was collected in dry stony mountain steppe at an elevation of 3800 m.