Stictane berliosi, Spitsyn & Bolotov & . & . & . & . & Rmbh & N., 2020

Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Bolotov, Ivan N., ., ., ., .,., Rmbh & N., 2020, Three new species of Stictane Hampson, 1900 from Flores Island, eastern Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 33, pp. 13-16 : 14-15

Stictane berliosi sp. nov.

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Holotype. INDONESIA: East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island, Labuan Bajo , 8°32'17"S, 119°53'05"E, alt. 70 m, disturbed monsoon forest, 21–22.i.2020, ♂, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. [ RMBH Sph 0876].

Paratype. The same locality, date, and collectors, 1♂ [ RMBH Sph 0877] .

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from all other congeners by having a specific uncus structure and three very large, leaf-like spikes in the vesica.

Description. Male morphology: Wingspan 10 mm, forewing length 5 mm. Heads of both type specimens lost. Thorax, patagium, tegula, legs, and abdomen gray. Upperside of the forewing: ground color light gray; antemedial line dark gray; two black postdiscal spots; wing apex darkened. Upperside of the hindwing and underside of both wings gray. Male genitalia: Uncus very short; tegumen v-shaped; saccus u-shaped. Valva long, with claw-like, acute distal process; distal saccular process large, strongly curved. Aedeagus broad; vesica with three very large, broad, leaf-like spikes. Female: Unknown.

Etymology. The new species is named in memory of Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), a French Romantic composer.

Distribution. This species is not known beyond its type locality (Labuan Bajo) in West Flores.

Figures

Figure 1. Holotypes of new Stictane spp. from Flores Island, Indonesia: A) S. miniursa sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0875; West Flores: Borong]; B) S. berliosi sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0876; West Flores: Labuan Bajo]; С) S. pseudofuscus sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0878; Central Flores: Bajawa]. Scale bar = 5 mm. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.

Figure 2. Holotype male genitalia and aedeagus of new Stictane spp. from Flores Island, Indonesia: A) S. miniursa sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0875; West Flores: Borong]; B) S. berliosi sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0876; West Flores: Labuan Bajo]; С) S. pseudofuscus sp. nov. [RMBH Sph 0878; Central Flores: Bajawa]. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.