Maxiana sericea ( Draudt, 1950 ) Draudt, 1950

Saldaitis, Aidas, Benedek, Balázs, Behounek, Gottfried & Stüning, Dieter, 2014, A revision of the genus Bombyciella Draudt, 1950, with description of a new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae), Zootaxa 3893 (4), pp. 551-561 : 560

Maxiana sericea ( Draudt, 1950) , comb. nov.

( Figs 7, 8, 10, 12 , 17–20 )

Lectotype (hereby designated in order to stabilize nomenclature): male ( Figs 7, 8 ), [ China], “Mokanshan, Prov. Chekiang, 18. 10. 30. Höne”; “ LECTOTYPE male, Bombyciella sericea Draudt, 1950 , designated by Saldaitis, Benedek, Behounek & Stüning, 2014” [red, printed label]; genitalia prep. No. 2270-DS; in coll. ZFMK; paralectotypes: 1male, ( Fig. 8 ) same data and collector as lectotype, genitalia prep. No. 2272-DS; 4 males ( Fig. 8 ), same data and collector as lectotype; coll. ZFMK.

Notes. In the description, Draudt (1950: 64) mentions specimens of B. sericea (i.e. syntypes) from Mokanshan (18.x.30, without mentioning the numbers of specimens), from West-tien-mu-shan [Zhejiang] (27.–28.ix.32, “several specimens, but worn”—translated from German), and from Hoengshan [Hunan prov.] (14.x.33, without numbers), but without designating a holotype. Of these syntypes, the Höne collection at ZFMK contains only 6 males from Mokanshan (with the correct data, 18.x.30). One of them ( Fig. 7 ) is designated as lectotype (see above). As observed earlier in other species described by Draudt, a part of syntypes could not be found. Near the end of the World War II Draudt’s home at Darmstadt, Germany was bombed and his complete private collection, and thousands of specimens he had on loan from the ZFMK and other museums, were destroyed. Only a small part of the loan-material had been returned, so Draudt very often designated other specimens which he discovered in the Höne collection after the war and which in fact did not belong to the original syntype-series subsequently as “ types ”. In the case of B. sericea , the ZFMK series contains an “allotype” with labels handwritten by Draudt, collected at West-tien-mu-shan, but on 6.ix.32, a date not mentioned in the description. Therefore this specimen, which is a male moreover, cannot be considered as a syntype.

Additional material: 16 males, Mokanshan, Prov. Chekiang, Höne, 13.10. (2), 14.10. (1), 15.10. (2), 16.10. (3), 17.10. (2), 19.10. (3), 20.10. (1), 24.10. (1), 25.10.30 (1); 1 male, West-tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang, 6.9.1932, H. Höne (labelled as “Allotype female”), 1 male, same locality and collector, 7.9.1932; 20 males, Hoengshan, Prov. Hunan, Höne, 11.7. (1), 7.10. (1), 8.10. (2, one dissected: genitalia prep. No. 2271-DS), 9.10. (4), 10.10. (3), 12.10. (1), 13.10. (1), 17.10. (1), 19.10. (2), 20.10 (1), 27.10. 1933 (1). 2 males same locality and collector, but with the year 1933 mentioned only; coll. ZFMK.

1 male, China, Prov. Fujian, Dai Mao Shan, 60 km NW Longyan, 1300 m, 25°32'N, 116°51'E, Siniaev V. leg., 4.–21.xi.2004, genitalia prep. No. GB 8274m, coll. GBG / ZSM.

Description. See generic description.

Bionomics and distribution. The syntype series and the main additional material has been collected in China’s Zhejiang and Hunan provinces and only one specimen which was collected at 1600m in West-tien-mu-shan has an altitude recorded. Most were collected in October but there is one specimen from Hoengshan (Hunan) collected in July, which may indicate an earlier generation. The recently collected specimens were collected in Fujian Province in November at 1300m and in Hunan, Shaanxi provinces (pers. com. P. Gyulai).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 12. Maxiana gen. n., Euplexia spp., Bombyciella spp., adults, head and abdomen. 7. M. sericea, male, lectotype, China, Zhejiang (coll. ZFMK); 7 a. E. chloerythra, male, N. Vietnam, Lang Son (coll. NRCV); 8. M. sericea, males, lectotype and paralectotypes, China, Chekiang (coll. ZFMK); 9. B. talpa, male, lectotype, China, Shaanxi (coll. ZFMK); 10. M. sericea, male, China, Hunan (coll. ZFMK); 11. B. talpa, male, lectotype, China, Shaanxi (coll. ZFMK); 12. M. sericea, male, China, Hunan (coll. ZFMK).

FIGURES 13 – 18. Bombyciella spp. and Maxiana gen. n., male genitalia. 13. B. talpa, lectotype, gen. capsule, prep. 2269 - DS; 14. B. talpa, lectotype, aedeagus, prep. 2269 - DS; 15. B. antra sp. n., holotype, gen. capsule, prep. BJ 2160 m; 16. B. antra sp. n., holotype, aedeagus, prep. BJ 2160 m; 17. M. sericea, lectotype, gen. capsule, prep. 2270 - DS; 18. M. sericea, lectotype, aedeagus, prep. 2270 - DS;

FIGURES 19 – 22. Maxiana gen. n., Bombyciella spp. and Euplexia spp. male and female genitalia. 19. M. sericea, paralectotype, gen. capsule, prep. 2272 - DS; 20. M. sericea, paralectotype, aedeagus, prep. 2272 - DS; 21. B. talpa, female, genitalia prep. BJ 2029 f; 22. B. antra sp. n., paratype female, genitalia prep. BJ 2030 f; 23. E. chloerythra, male, gen. capsule, prep. PGy 3913 m; 24. E. chloerythra, male, aedeagus, prep. PGy 3913 m.