Ammatho (Delineata) delineata ( Walker, 1854 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & Wu, Shipher, 2020, A review of the subgenus Delineatia Volynkin & Huang, 2019 of the genus Ammatho Walker, 1855, with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan and Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini), Zootaxa 4801 (2), pp. 237-250 : 239-240

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Ammatho (Delineata) delineata ( Walker, 1854) View in CoL

( Figs 1–10 View FIGURES 1–10 , 19–22 View FIGURES 19–22 , 30, 31 View FIGURES 30–34 )

Hypoprepia View in CoL ? delineata Walker, 1854 View in CoL , List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 2: 487 (Type locality: “ Shanghai, N. China ”).

= Hypocrita rhodina Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 View in CoL , Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge: 69, 83, fig. 438 (Type locality: “Borneo” [wrong]), syn. rev.

= Ammatho figuratus Walker, 1855 View in CoL , List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 3: 759 (Type locality: “North China ”).

= Cyme chinensis C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862 View in CoL , Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 6: 36 (Type locality: “Ning-po”).

= Ammatho fuscescens Butler, 1877 View in CoL , Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877: 343 (Type locality: “ Mongolia and Shanghai”).

= Miltochrista dimidiata Fang, 1991 View in CoL , Sinozoologia 8: 389, 395, fig. 4 (Type locality: China, Hunan).

Type material examined. Holotype of Hypoprepia ? delineata ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–10 ): female, “ China, Shanghai (Fortune) 54-8” / green ring “Type” label / “3. Hypoprepia ? delineata . ” / QR-code label with a unique number “ NHMUK 010604303” (Coll. NHMUK). Holotype of Ammatho figuratus ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1–10 ): female, “N. China, 52-14” / green ring “Type” label / “North China ” / “1. Ammatho figuratus . ” / QR-code label with a unique number “ NHMUK 010604304” (Coll. NHMUK). Holotype of Cyme chinensis ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–10 ): female, “ Cyme chinensis Feld. ” / ”Felder colln.” / red ring “Type” label / “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1” (Coll. NHMUK). Holotype of Ammatho fuscescens ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–10 ): male, “ China, Nankow Pass, 75-40” / “ A. fuscescens Butler type” / red ring “Type” label / QR-code label with a unique number “ NHMUK 010604299” (Coll. NHMUK). Holotype of Miltochrista dimidiata (photographs) ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1–10 ): “ HOLO- TYPE ” / “ ♂ ” / “L-0046” / “ 1981. V.28 leg. Nanhua Xiao” / “Xiang (Heng) 0524, Hengdong 81.5.28, Nanhua Xiao” / “ Miltochrista dimidiata Fang, Det. Chenglai Fang ” / “IOZ(E)208614” / “ Hunan, Hengdong, Chinese Academy of Sciences” (Coll. IZCAS).

Additional material examined: CHINA: 1 male, Shanghai, Miss. - Mus. Steyl, slide AV1928 Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK) ; 1 female, Shanghai, Prov. Kiangsu , 15.VIII.[19]30 Höne, slide AV1929 Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK) ; 2 females, [ China ] Shanghai, VI–VII.1892 (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 female, China , Shanghai (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 male, China , Shanghai, 58-60, slide NHMUK010313177 About NHMUK Volynkin (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 female, Walker Coll. , Shanghai, 92-196, IV-92, slide NHMUK010313178 About NHMUK Volynkin (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 female, Shanghai, Prov. Kiangsu , VII.29, H. Höne / Sammlung Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 female, [Jiangsu, Nanjing] Berg [Mt.] Paoschan, b. Nanking, China sept. or., April / Sammlung Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 male, Hoengshan, Prov. Hunan, 13. VI.1933, H. Höne (Coll. NHMUK) ; 3 males, Hoeng-Shan (900 m), Provinz [Province] Hunan, China , 30.V.1933, H. Höne / Sammlung Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 male, the same locality and collector, but 8. VI.1933, slide 286 Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 male, the same locality and collector, but 19. VI.1933 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 male, 1 female, [Hubei, Yichang ] Ichang, Mrs. Pratt coll., VII.1888 (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 male, [Fujian, ca. 10 km NNE of Shaowu ] Kuatun, Prov. Fukien, 18.VIII., Höne (Coll. ZFMK) ; 1 male, the same locality and collector, but 16.VIII.1938 / Sammlung Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 24.VIII.1938 / Sammlung Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 male, 1 female, [Fujian, ca. 10 km NNE of Shaowu] Kuatun (2300 m), [N] 27.40 n. Br. , [E] 117.40 ö. L., J. Klapperich, (Fukien), 5–12.VI.1946, slide AV1930 Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 5. VI.1946, slide AV1931 Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK) GoogleMaps ; 2 males, the same locality and collector, but 9. and 14. VI.1946 (Coll. NHMUK) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, the same locality and collector, but 30. V.1946 / Slg. F. Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 4. VI.1946 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 2 males, the same locality and collector, but 6. VI.1938, slide 285 Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, the same locality and collector, but 7. VI.1938 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 10. VI.1938 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 12. VI.1938 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 13. VI.1938 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, the same locality and collector, but 15. VI.1938 (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, [Fujian] Kuatun, Prov. Fukien , 25.VIII.38, Höne, Slg. F. Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 6 males, 4 females, China / Jiangxi, Wuyi Shan, Xipaihe village , 1500 m, 27°54’N, 117°20’E, VI.2003, leg. Siniaev & his team (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, [Zhejiang] West Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang , 25.VII.1932, H. Höne (Coll. ZFMK) ; 1 male, 1 female, [Sichuan] Omei-Shan , 3500 ft., native coll., VI–VII.1890 (Coll. NHMUK) ; 1 male, West-Tien-Mu-Shan, (1600 m), Pz. Chekiang, 10.IX.1932, H. Höne / Sammlung Daniel / Paratype Miltochrista longaria Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 2 females, the same locality and collector, but 4.VIII.1932 (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 female , [Zhejiang] Chekiang, Makanshan, 7.IX.30, H. Höne / Franz Daniel München (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 male, [Chongqing] Chun- gking, China , 4.X.1912, W. R. Brown , 1913-98 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 male, 1 female, [Sichuan] Washan , 6000 ft., Pratt coll. , VII.1889, slides NHMUK010313179 About NHMUK (male), NHMUK010313180 About NHMUK (female) Volynkin (Coll. NHMUK); 1 male, 1 female , [Sichuan] NW China, Wei Chang, 1904 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 male, [Sichuan] Szetschwan, Kwanhsien, exp. Stötzner , coll. F. Daniel / Paratype Miltochrista variata Daniel (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 2 males, China, prov. Sichuan, Daxue Shan Mts. (S), Gongga Shan , Moxi , 29°41’N, 101°58’E, 1700 m, 11–22.VII.1999, leg. Dr. Ronald Brechlin (Coll. MWM / ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, China / Sichuan, Qingchenghoushan Mts. , 70 km NW Chengdu, 1400 m, 15–20. VI.2005, leg. S., V., M. Murzin (Coll. MWM / ZSM) ; 1 female, 8.VII.2016, Wandong Village, Detuo Town , Luding County, Sichuan Province, leg. Min Wang, Shu-qin Ji & Yu-ke Han (Coll. SCAU) .

Remark. Hampson (1900) listed A. figuratus , C. chinensis , H. rhodina and A. fuscescens as synonyms of Miltochrista delineata . The synonymic status of A. figuratus , C. chinensis and A. fuscescens was confirmed by Volynkin & Černý (2017) and, in addition, the authors synonymized M. dimidiata with A. delineata . The type of H. rhodina was not located and is probably lost. Volynkin & Černý (2017) did not include this taxon to the synonymic list of A. delineata due to its type locality, the island of Borneo, where species of the subgenus Delineatia do not occur, and supposed that H. rhodina might be conspecific to some other externally similar species like Integrivalvia exclusa ( Butler, 1877). However, the male specimen illustrated in the original drawing of H. rhodina ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–10 ) is conspicuously dissimilar to I. exclusa and identical to the typical form of A. delineata . During further examination of extensive materials from Borneo deposited in the MWM/ZSM, CKC and NHMUK the senior author found no any similar species and we can only suppose that the Herrich-Schäffer’s type specimen was mislabeled and here we confirm the synonymy of H. rhodina with A. delineata .

Diagnosis. Forewing length is 12–14 mm in males and 14–18 mm in females. The species is highly variable externally, with the ground color varying from brownish red or orange brown to brownish black. The forewing pattern consists of thin and sharp or diffuse blackish brown transverse lines and longitudinal strokes in the submarginal area. The dark form (described as A. fuscescens and M. dimidiata ) have the blackish brown forewing ground color with only small brick red or orange brown areas in the subbasal and antemedial areas. The male genitalia of A. delineata are characterized by the medial costal process having a short but broad base and a thin claw-like tip; the massive distal costal process bearing a dorsal crest of short trigonal various-sized denticles and a narrow outer thorn directed distally; and the narrow vesica with a medial chamber bearing a cluster of strong spinulose scobination. The female genitalia are characterized by the broad but relatively short postvaginal plate with a shallow medial posterior concatity.

Distribution. The species is widespread in mainland China (Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong Provinces) ( Daniel 1951; Fang 2000; Dubatolov et al. 2012; Volynkin & Černý 2017). The records from Taiwan ( Chang 1989; Wang 1994; Fang 2000; Dubatolov et al. 2012; Volynkin & Černý 2017) belong to A. tairadiata sp. n.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Ammatho

Loc

Ammatho (Delineata) delineata ( Walker, 1854 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & Wu, Shipher 2020
2020
Loc

Miltochrista dimidiata Fang, 1991

Fang, Det. Chenglai Fang 1991
1991
Loc

Ammatho fuscescens

Butler 1877
1877
Loc

Cyme chinensis

C. Felder & R. Felder 1862
1862
Loc

Hypocrita rhodina Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Herrich-Schaffer 1855
1855
Loc

Ammatho figuratus

Walker 1855
1855
Loc

delineata Walker, 1854

delineata (Walker 1854
1854
Loc

Hypoprepia

Hubner, 1827- 1831
1831
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