Zaranga pannosa Moore, 1884

Beljaev, Evgeny A., Choi, Sei-Woong & Kuzmin, Aleksandr A., 2021, Notes on the genus Zaranga Moore with description of a new species in the Zaranga pannosa species group (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae), Zootaxa 4926 (4), pp. 577-589 : 584-585

Zaranga pannosa Moore, 1884

Zaranga pannosa Moore, 1884: 357 ; TL: “Umballa District” [Ambala district, Haryana state, NW India].

Zaranga pannosa: Hampson, 1893: 147 , fig. (moth, female); Streltzov & Yakovlev, 2007, fig. 7 (valva), pl. 2: 1, 2 (moths).

Zaranga pannosa pannosa: Schintlmeister, 2008: 36 : figs 60 (female genitalia), 61 (male genitalia), pl. 2: 15 (moths).

Zaranga pannosa necopinatus Schintlmeister, 2008: 36 : fig. 62 (male genitalia), pl. 2: 15 (moth); TL: Meifiong Prov. Nantou, Taiwan.

Genetic data ( Tab. 1 , Fig. 24 ). Specimen of “ Zaranga tukuringra ” (GenBank accession: LC176123 ) from Yunnan ( China) possesses the DNA sequences highly distanced from both Z. koreana (4.3–4.5% p-distance) and true Z. tukuringra (5.3–5.7% p-distance), which could assume it belongs to Z. pannosa or another unknown species.

Distribution. Northern Pakistan, North-West India, Nepal ( Z. pannosa pannosa ); Taiwan ( Z. pannosa necopinatus ) ( Schintlmeister 2008) ( Fig. 25 ).

Note. Schintlmeister (2008: 37) stated that “there is a larger distribution gap in S[outh] China and Indochina” between the Z. pannosa pannosa and Z. pannosa necopinatus . However, the specimen of “ Zaranga tukuringra Streltzov & Yakovlev, 2007 ” from Yunnan on the photo from the site “Digital Moths of Japan ” ( Yanagida et al. 2017), likely belongs to Z. pannosa . This correlates with the supposed genetic data of this species (see above). So, Z. pannosa can inhabit at least SW China also. The figure of Z. pannosa in Hampson (1893: 147) shows a female, not a male, as indicated under the figure.

Figures

FIGURE 24. Pairwise distances tree for samples of the genus Zaranga based on the mtDNA CO1gene barcode region, computed using the Kimura 2-parameter method. Bootstrap tests (1000 replicates) are shown next to the branches.

FIGURE 25. Distribution of species of the genus Zaranga. The color fill shows general areas of the Zaranga species and subspecies (see Legend in the map); hatching shows supposed parts of areas. The collecting localities are given for Zaranga koreana in Korea by squares and for Zaranga tukuringra by circles; black figures indicate the new data, and white figures indicate the literature data.An asterisk marks the type localities for both species. Locality Urusha for Zaranga tukuringra is pointed by an arrow. The areas of Zaranga except the Z. tukuringra and Korean populations of Zaranga koreana are compiled from Schintlmeister (1989) and Rybalkin & Yakovlev (2017); the area of Zaranga pannosa pannosa is extended to the east following the assumption made in this article.