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Corresponding author: Zhaohui Pan ( panzhaohui2005@163.com ) Corresponding author: Anton V. Volynkin ( monstruncusarctia@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Alberto Zilli
© 2021 Enyong Chen, Zhaohui Pan, Anton V. Volynkin, Aidas Saldaitis, Balazs Benedek.
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Chen E, Pan Z, Volynkin AV, Saldaitis A, Benedek B (2021) Bombyciella linzhiensis, a new species from southern Xizang, China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae). ZooKeys 1060: 85-92. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.71934
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A new species of the genus Bombyciella Draudt, 1950, Bombyciella linzhiensis sp. nov., is described from the Linzhi (Nyingchi) Prefecture in southern Xizang (China), following a diagnostic comparison with B. talpa Draudt, 1950 and B. antra Saldaitis, Benedek, Behounek & Stüning, 2014. The adults and the male genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.
Male genitalia, morphology, Owlet moth, taxonomy, Xylenina, Xylenini
Bombyciella Draudt, 1950 is a noctuid genus distributed in mountain areas in south-western and northern China. The genus is closely related to the Holarctic Brachylomia Hampson, 1906 (
During an entomological survey in the southern Xizang Province of China, a long series of unusual dark-coloured Bombyciella specimens was collected by the senior and the second authors. After comparing the male genitalia structures of these specimens with the other two species in the genus, they proved to be diagnostic and the specimens are therefore considered to represent a new species which is here described.
Abbreviations for private and institutional collections used herein are as follows:
AFM collection of Alessandro Floriani (Milan, Italy);
TAAHU Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University (Linzhi, China);
WIGJ World Insect Gallery (Joniškis, Lithuania);
Other abbreviations used in the illustrations are:
HT holotype;
LT lectotype;
PT paratype.
The male genitalia terminology follows
Noctuinae Latreille, 1809
Xylenini Guenée, 1837
Holotype: male (Fig.
The new species (Figs
Male. Forewing length 26–27 mm (holotype: 26 mm). Antenna shortly bipectinate. Head and thorax blackish grey with suffusion of pale grey scales. Forewing triangular with tapered apex and almost straight costa and convex termen. Forewing ground colour varies from blackish brown to olive brown. Subbasal dash short, black. Antemedial line irregularly sinuous, black, indistinct, oblique outwards posteriorly. Postmedial line indistinct, dentate on veins, loop-like curved anteriorly and oblique inwards posteriorly. In olive brown form, medial area intensely suffused with black scales. Orbicular stigma elliptical, from greyish- to olive brown. Reniform stigma wide, slightly dilated anteriorly, from greyish- to olive brown. Subterminal line evenly curved, parallel to termen, brown, interrupted into diffuse spots on veins. Terminal line blackish brown, thin. Costal margin intensely suffused with blackish scales, with three thin and short whitish subapical dashes. Cilia from dark grey to blackish grey. Hindwing dark grey with brown suffusion on veins, thin brown terminal line and comma-like, dark brownish grey discal spot. Hindwing cilia brownish grey. Abdomen blackish brown, with suffusion of pale grey scales along segment edges.
Male genitalia
(Figs
Female. Unknown.
The new species is known only from Sejila Mountain in southern Xizang Province of China (Figs
The specific epithet refers to the type locality located in the Linzhi (Nyingchi) prefecture of Xizang.
The work of Enyong Chen and Zhaohui Pan was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Tibet Autonomous Region (Study on species diversity and protection of butterfly resources in Southeast Tibet), the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (Grant No. 2019QZKK05010602), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31760631), and Tutor innovation project of Forestry Subject of Tibet agricultural and Animal Husbandry University (Species diversity and conservation of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) in southeastern Tibet). Anton Volynkin, Aidas Saldaitis and Balazs Benedek had no funding. We express our sincere thanks to National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of Nyingchi Tibet, United Key Laboratory of Tibet plateau ecological security, and South-East Tibetan plateau Station for integrated observation and research of alpine environment in Linzhi. We are also indebted to Dr Dieter Stüning (Bonn, Germany) for pictures of the holotype of B. talpa provided.