Dubatoloviana navneetsinghi Volynkin, 2021

Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2025, On the taxonomy of the Brunia Moore generic complex with the description of a new genus, a new subgenus and four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini: Lithosiina), Ecologica Montenegrina 87, pp. 46-76 : 57-59

Dubatoloviana navneetsinghi Volynkin, 2021

( Figs 52 , 88 )

Dubatoloviana navneetsinghi Volynkin, 2021 , Ecologica Montenegrina , 47: 45, figs 1, 2, 7, 10 (Type locality: “NE India, Assam, Nambor Reserv[e] Forest, Garampani, 100m, 26°30'N, 93°55'E ”).

Type material examined. Holotype ( Figs 52 , 88 ): male, “N-E. India | Assam, Nambor Reserv [e] | Forest , Garampani, H= 100 m | 26°30'N, 93°55'E, | 21–29. Nov. 1997. | lg. V. Siniaev [recte: Sinyaev] & M. Murzin | Museum Witt” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. 2021-097 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” ( MWM / ZSM) . Paratype: male, same data as in holotype ( MWM / ZSM) .

Note. The twenty-two female specimens originally included into the type series of D. navneetsinghi (Volynkin 2021) in fact represent a dark form of Brunia gibonica ( Fig. 53 ) while the female of D. navneetsinghi remains unknown.

Distribution. The species is known only from its type locality in Assam, Northeast India

(Volynkin 2021).

Acknowledgements

The senior author expresses his sincere thanks to the following colleagues for their kind assistance during visits to the collections under their care: Axel Hausmann, Mei-Yu Chen and Ulf Buchsbaum ( ZSM) ; Alberto Zilli and Geoff Martin ( NHMUK) ; and Wolfram Mey ( MfN) . Vladimir Dubatolov (Novosibirsk, Russia) and the late Vadim Zolotuhin (Ulyanovsk, Russia) are acknowledged for the photo of the holotype of Lithosia usuguronis Matsumura kindly provided .

Images of specimens deposited in NHMUK are used with permission and are copyright of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London and made available under Creative Commons License 4.0, CC-BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

References

Bucsek, K. (2012) Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malaya Peninsula-Malaysia. Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava, 170 pp.

Bucsek, K. (2020) Contribution to the knowledge of Lithosiini (Erebidae, Arctiinae) of central and northern Laos, part 4. Entomofauna carpathica, 32 (2), 47–87.

Draudt, M. (1914) Arctiidae. – Tiger moths (Miltochrista to Stenosa). In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 10. Die Indo-Australischen Spinner und Schwärmer. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 135–223. [In German]

Dubatolov, V.V. & Bucsek, K. (2016) New lichen-moth taxa (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) from Vietnam. Euroasian entomological journal, 15 (3), 228–238.

Dubatolov, V.V. & Zolotuhin, V.V. (2011) Does Eilema Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) present one or several genera? Euroasian entomological journal, 10 (3), 367–379 + 380, pl. VII.

Fang, C.L. (2000) Lepidoptera. Arctiidae. Fauna Sinica (Insecta). 19. Science Press, Beijing, 590 pp. [in Chinese with English summary]

Hampson, G.F. (1894) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma Fauna Br. India (Moths). Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. v-xxii, 1–609.

Hampson, G.F. (1900) Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosiinae) in the collection of the British Museum. In: Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum, 2. British Museum (Natural History), London, xx+ 589 pp., pl. XVIII–XXXV.

Holloway, J.D. (2001) The Moths of Borneo, part 7. Family Arctiidae, subfamily Lithosiinae. Malayan Nature Journal, 55, 279–486.

ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, The Natural History Museum, London, 306 pp.

Kirti, J.S. & Singh, N. (2015) Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 1. Nature Books India, New Delhi, 205 pp.

Kononenko, V.S. (2010) Noctuidae Sibiricae. Vol. 2. Micronoctuidae, Noctuidae: Rivulinae– Agaristinae (Lepidoptera). Entomological Press, Sorø, 475 pp.

Krüger, M. (2015) Generic classification of Afrotropical footman moths sensu stricto (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini (partim)). Transvaal Museum Monograph, 15, 1–176.

Lafontaine, J.D. & Mikkola, K. (1987) Las-och-nyckel systemen i de inre genitalierna av Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) som taksonomiska kaennetecken. [Lock-and-key systems in the inner genitalia of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) as a taxonomic character.] Entomologiske Meddelelser, 55, 161–167. [In Swedish with English summary]

Matsumura, S. (1927) New species and subspecies of moths from the Japanese Empire. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo, Japan, 19 (1), 1–91, pls. 1–5. [http://hdl.handle.net/2115/12601]

Moore, F. (1878) A revision of certain genera of European and Asiatic Lithosiinae, with characters of new genera and species. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 3–37, pls. 1–3.

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1878.tb07927.x

Singh, N., Singh, S., Datta, H.S. & Kirti, J.S. (2024) Taxonomic review of the genera Cernyia Bucsek and Denteilema Dubatolov: resolving a group of cryptic species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 74 (1), 129–141.

https://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2024.74.1.007

Volynkin, A.V. (2020) Re-characterization of two Lithosiini species recently described from the island of Taiwan, with establishing of a new combination and the corrected checklist of the genus Aberrasine Volynkin & Huang, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Ecologica Montenegrina, 38, 119–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38.15

Volynkin, A.V. (2021) Taxonomic review of the genus Dubatoloviana Bucsek with description of a new species from Northeast India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Ecologica Montenegrina, 47, 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.47.7

Volynkin, A.V. (2024) On the terminology of the genitalia structures of lichen moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) with some references to Noctuidae. Ecologica Montenegrina, 73, 176–207. https://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.73.18

Volynkin, A.V. & László, G.M. (2021) Kruegerilema, a new genus for a new species endemic to São Tomé Island (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 70 (2), 333–338. https://doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2021.70.2.333

Watson, A., Fletcher, D.S. & Nye, I.W.B. (1980) The generic names of moths of the world. Vol. 2. Noctuoidea (part): Arctiidae, Cocytiidae, Ctenuchidae, Dilobidae, Dioptidae, Lymantriidae, Notodontidae, Strepsimanidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Thyretidae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 228 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.119421

Wu, S., Fu, C.-M., Tzuoo, H.-R., Shih. L.-C., Chang, W.-C., Lin, H.-H. (2020) An annotated checklist of macro moths in mid- to high-mountain ranges of Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Macroheterocera). Formosan Entomologist, 40, 10–83. https://doi.org/10.6662/TESFE.202002_40(1).002

Figures

Figures 36–53. Adults of Sany (36–38), Dubatoloviana (39–52) and Brunia (53) spp. Depositories of the specimens: 36, 37, 39, 41–45, 47, 52 and 53 in MWM/ZSM (45: ex CKC); 38 and 50 in NHMUK; 40, 46, 48, 49 and 51 in CKC.

Figures 85–88. Male genitalia of Dubatoloviana spp. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 85 and 86 in CKC; 87 and 88 in MWM/ZSM.