Parasa julikatis Solovyev & Witt, 2009

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil, Chandra, Kailash & Solovyev, Alexey V., 2021, A new species of the genus Thespea Solovyev and four newly recorded species of Limacodidae from India (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea), Zootaxa 4927 (1), pp. 123-132 : 126

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Parasa julikatis Solovyev & Witt, 2009
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Parasa julikatis Solovyev & Witt, 2009

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Parasa julikatis Solovyev & Witt, 2009: 113 .

Type material examined. Holotype: Ƌ, Vietnam (N), Mts Fan-si-pan, N-side, Chapa (22º17’N, 103º44’E, 1600 m, 20–30.XI.1995), leg. Sinjaev & loc. (MWM) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 6 Ƌ listed by Solovyev & Witt (2009).

Other material examined. India: 1 Ƌ, Arunachal Pradesh, Upper Siang , 02.iv.2017, leg. B. Saikia & Party (NZCZSI, 7020/ H10) .

Diagnosis. Morphologically, P. julikatis and P. shirakii Kawada, 1930 look very similar and can be confused with each other. However, the former is recognizable by the broader marginal brown border of the forewing which also shows a stronger invagination in its lower third. In male genitalia, the uncus is robust, broader at base with distal region shorter, the valva is simple and aedeagus is strongly curved at basal half. Moreover, P. shirakii is so far known only from Taiwan.

Distribution. Vietnam, China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hainan), northern Thailand ( Solovyev 2014) and India (Arunachal Pradesh). This is the first record from India.

Kawada, A. (1930) A list of Cochlidionid moths in Japan, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species. Journal of the Imperial Agricultural Experimental Station, Nishigahara, 1 (3), 231 - 262.

Solovyev, A. V. & Witt, T. J. (2009) The Limacodidae of Vietnam. Entomofauna, Supplement 16, 33 - 229.

Solovyev, A. V. (2014) Parasa Moore auct.: phylogenetic review of the complex from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Proceedings of the Museum Witt, Munich, 1, 1 - 240.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Limacodidae

Genus

Parasa