Ovipennis bicolora

Huang, Si-Yao, Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel, Li, Zhi-Hong & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2024, Review of the bicolora Fang and binghami Hampson species-groups of the genus Ovipennis Hampson with descriptions of five new species from Southwestern China and Indochina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini), Zootaxa 5399 (5), pp. 540-554 : 542-543

The Ovipennis bicolora species-group

Diagnosis. The males of the species-group (except for O. hanae sp. n.) bear a bicolorous forewing with an ochreous orange proximal and a black distal sections, while the females have a white forewing ground colour with a basal ochreous and a larger distal brown patch well separated from each other (the female of O. kitchingi sp. n. is unknown). In the genitalia, the species-group is characterised by the dilated distal section of the uncus and the bifurcate distal saccular process in male, and the well-developed and bilobate antevaginal plate in female.

Species composition

O. bicolora Fang, 1986

O. hanae S.-Y. Huang, Volynkin & Černý, sp. n.

O. kitchingi Volynkin, S. -Y. Huang & Černý, sp. n.

O. regina Volynkin, Černý, S. -Y. Huang & Saldaitis, sp. n.

O. takia Volynkin, S. -Y. Huang & Černý, sp. n.