Fangeilema (Danieloma) confusa, Volynkin & Saldaitis, 2023

Volynkin, Anton V. & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2023, Two new genera, two new subgenera, and four new species of Lithosiina from China and northern Indochina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 68, pp. 140-154 : 143

Fangeilema (Danieloma) confusa sp. n.

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( Figs 5, 6 , 21, 22 , 33 )

Systropha xanthocraspis : Daniel (1954): 128.

Type material. Holotype ( Figs 5 , 21 ): male, red label [ China, SW Shaanxi Province, Qinling Mts, Taibai Mt. ] “Tapaishan im Tsinling | Sued-Shensi. Ca. 3000m. | 15.6.1936. H. Höne. ” / “Sammlung | Daniel” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 2019-1130 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” ( MWM / ZSM).

Paratypes: CHINA: 1 male, 1 female, the same locality and collector as the holotype but 15. VI .1936 (male) and 16. VI.1936 (female), gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2019-1131 ♀ ( MWM / ZSM) ; 99 specimens of both sexes, the same locality and collector as the holotype but 3000 and 1700m, 8. VI .– 23.VII.1936 ( ZFMK) ; 1 male, Li-kiang [Lijiang], North Yunnan Province, 28.VIII.1934, H. Höne [leg.] / Sammlung Daniel, gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2019-1129 ♂ ( MWM / ZSM) .

Remark. The male genitalia of the specimen from Yunnan illustrated by Daniel (1954: figs 89a and 89b) as ‘ Systropha xanthocraspis ’ belong to F. lucida whereas the phallus illustrated in the same publication ( Daniel 1954: fig. 89c) belongs to F. confusa sp. n.

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 14.0–15.0 mm in males and 17.0 mm in females. Fangeilema confusa sp. n. is externally reminiscent of species of the subgenus Paraxenittia subgen. n. of the genus Kuatunittia gen. n., but can be distinguished in the somewhat smaller size and the paler forewing ground colour. The comparison of the male and female genitalia of the species from species of Fangeilema gen. n. s. str. is provided above in the diagnosis of the subgenus Paraxenittia subgen. n.

Distribution. China (Shaanxi and Yunnan Provinces) ( Daniel 1954, as Systropha xanthocraspis , partim.).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the confusion of the new species with Dolgoma xanthocraspis ( Daniel 1954) .

Figures

Figures 1–8. Fangeilema (1–6) and Kuatunittia (7, 8), adults. Depositories of the specimens: 1 and 2 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 3–6, and 8 in MWM/ZSM; 7 in ZFMK (photo by V. Zolotuhin, by courtesy of V. Dubatolov).

Figures 19–22. Fangeilema, male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 19 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 20–22 in MWM/ZSM.

Figures 31–34. Fangeilema (31–33) and Kuatunittia, female genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 31 in NHMUK (©The Trustees of NHMUK); 32–34 in MWM/ZSM