Euchromia horsfieldi ( Moore, 1859 )

Bolotov, Ivan N., Kondakov, Alexander V. & Spitsyn, Vitaly M., 2018, A review of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini) from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago, with description of a new species and new subspecies, Ecologica Montenegrina 16, pp. 1-15 : 4-6

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scientific name	Euchromia horsfieldi ( Moore, 1859 )
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Euchromia horsfieldi ( Moore, 1859)

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Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island: south of the town of Labuan Bajo by the road to Gorontalo, secondary forest , 8º32’22”S, 119 º52’39”E, 16-18 January 2015, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher no. SPH0723 ) GoogleMaps .

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S. dubia (Walker, 1855) United States, North 05-NCCC-731 LNC731-06 BOLD IDS Carolina, Craven County

S. congrua Walker, 1855 Canada, Ontario, 08BBLEP-00630 LPSOD 848-09 BOLD IDS Pukaskwa National Park

S. vagans (Boisduval, 1852) Canada, British Columbia CNCNoctuoidea13694 RDNME 166-07 BOLD IDS

S. urticae (Esper, 1789) Germany, Bavaria, BC ZSM Lep 36661 GWOSA 795-10 BOLD IDS Oberbayern

S. lubricipedum (Linnaeus, United Kingdom, England, UKLB 3D11 CGUKA 233-09 BOLD IDS

1758) Hertfordshire

S. latipennis Stretch, 1872 Canada, Ontario, Grey PPBP-1729 LPSOB 730-08 BOLD IDS County

S. vestalis Packard, 1864 United States, California, BIOUG 06805-D01 LOCBF 1295-13 BOLD IDS San Diego County

Ardices curvata (Donovan, Australia, New South BIOUG 00951-B08 NSWHM 589-11 BOLD IDS

1805) Wales

A. glatignyi (Le Guillou, Australia, Tasmania 06-TASB-00640 LOTSB 640-07 BOLD IDS

1841)

A. canescens (Butler, 1875) Australia, Australian BIOUG 02106-A03 PHLCD 1164-12 BOLD IDS Capital Territory, Canberra

Spilaethalida erythrastis Australia, Queensland 10ANIC-01152 ANICE 155-10 BOLD IDS

(Meyrick, 1886)

Theretra natashae Cadiou , Indonesia, West Flores, SPH581 MG 735266 Present

1995* Sano Ngoang Lake study

*An outgroup.

Distribution: Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali, Lesser Sundas, and Christmas Island ( Table 1 View Table 1 ).

Remarks: First record from Flores. The lengthened dark yellow spot below the cell on the forewing of our female specimen is separated by large black triangular inclusion (vs. continuous dark yellow spot with only a minute black inclusion in specimens from Java and Borneo: Moore, 1859; Holloway, 1988).

References

Holloway, J. D. (1988) The Moths of Borneo 6: family Arctiidae, subfamilies: Syntominae, Euchromiinae, Arctiinae; Noctuidae misplaced in Arctiidae (Camptoma, Aganinae). Kuala Lumpur, Southdene Sdn. Bhd., 101 pp.

Moore, F. (1859) Descriptions of some Asiatic Lepidopterous Insects belonging to the Tribe Bombyces. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1859, 197 - 201.

Figures

Figure 2. Examples of Arctiini species from Flores Island, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia: A) Euchromia horsfieldi (Moore, 1859), ♀ (Sph0723); B) Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0717); C) Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0694); D) A. astreus, ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0693); E) Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0720); F) N. baulus, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0721); G) Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0595); H) Lemyra maculifascia (Walker, 1855), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0722). Scale bar: 10 mm. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.