Parvispinia caelestina ( Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001 ), 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.