Cyana peregrina (Walker, 1854)

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2016, A review of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Cambodia, with description of new species, Zootaxa 4114 (4), pp. 447-463 : 455

Cyana peregrina (Walker, 1854)

(Pl. 2: 12; 4: 12)

Bizone peregrina Walker, 1854 , List. Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 2: 551. TL: Sri Lanka. Cyana peregrina: Hampson, 1894 , Moths Ind., 2: 56; Černy & Pinratana, 2009, 6: 46, pl. 9: 94. Chionaema peregrina: Hampson, 1900 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 2: 296, fig. 215.

Diagnosis. Wingspan ♂ 20–22 mm. C. peregrina differs from congeners by having the forewing of male with indistinct one dark spot in cell and two dark spots in discocellular; hindwing white tinged with red, elliptical dark patch in costa; in male genitalia, valvae rectangular, rounded apex; saccular process stout, with short apical spine, almost same length as valvae; aedeagus short, stout, and vesica with one group of longer spines and scobination.

Material examined. 1♂, Cambodia, Kep (N10˚29′25″, E104˚18′13″), 17.VII.2012 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1♂, Cambodia, Kep (N10˚29′37.80″, E104˚18′5.40″), 19.VIII.2013 (Y.S. Bae et al.), Gen. Slide No. INU-1082.

Distribution. Cambodia (Kep), Sri Lanka, India, Thailand.

Remarks. Only males had been collected up to now. This species was reported from Cambodia by Candѐze (1927).