Kailasha effracta Walker 1854
Creators: name: Ulziijargal, Bayarsaikhan
name: Na, Sol-Moon
name: Bae, Yang-Seop
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Kailasha
Kailasha effracta

description: Kailasha effracta (Walker, 1854)
Barsine effracta Walker, 1854, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2: 546. TL: Nepal.
Bizone effracta Walker: Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887, Cat. Moths Ind. 2: 107, No. 663.
Cyana effracta Walker: Hampson, 1894, Fauna Br. India, Moths 2: 57.
Chionaema effracta Walker: Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 2: 298, 300–301, fig. 217.
Chionaema pusilla Wileman, 1910, Entomologist 43: 177. TL: Kanshirei.
Chionaema effracta Walker: Hampson, 1914, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. (Suppl.) 1: 617.
Chionaema effracta Walker: Draudt, 1914, Macrolep. World 10: 169, pl. 16g.
Chionaema effracta sumatrana van Eecke, 1927, Zool. Meded. 10: 104–105 (van Eecke, 1926, Zool. Meded. 9: pl. 4, figs. 12a– b). TL: Sumatra, Fort de Kock.
Chionaema effracta f. karenkonis Matsumura: Inoue, 1988, Tyô to Ga, 39 (2): 99–118. TL: Formosa, Karenko.
Chionaema effracta Walker: Fang, 2000, Fauna Sin., Ins. 19: 156–157, pl. 4: 5.
Cyana effracta Walker: Inoue, 1988, Tyo to Ga 39 (2): 113.
Cyana effracta Walker: Holloway, 2001, Moths of Borneo 7: 339, pl. 1, figs. 137, 146.
Cyana effracta Walker: Černy & Pinratana, 2009, Moths of Thailand 6: 54, pl. 11: 110a, 110b.
Cyana effracta Walker: Bucsek, 2012, Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malay Peninsula-Malaysia: 105, pl. 18: 260, 260a.
Kailasha effracta Walker: Kirti & Singh, 2015, Arctiid Moths of India 1: 79.
Description. Adult (Figs. 1 a, b). Length of forewing 10–11 mm in male, 15–16 mm in female. Frons and vertex pure white; labial palpi fuscous gray, upturned not extending beyond frons; antennae, with fuscous cilia. Patagia pure white with gray band. Tegulae pure white, with transversal red band. Forewing ground pure white; subbasal and antemedial lines red; rhomboid antemedial spot red; medial line waved, shortly forked at costa, with hair fringe at costa; postmedian line red, finished in middle part, from middle lead to one spot and short band to costa; subterminal series of red three spots; terminal series of red-yellow small spots; fringe white-yellow. Hindwing pure white, with pale brown antemedial and subterminal lines in both sexes; one dark discoidal spot in both sexes; fringe white-yellow. Abdomen slender, dark, covered with white scales.
Male genitalia (Fig. 7). Uncus arrowhead-shaped, with weakly setose and small spine at top, 0.5 times shorter than tegumen; valvae elongated, stout, apex rounded, with short and small angular process below apex; costa of valva weakly sclerotized, with strongly concave basal area; saccular process short, with rounded apex; juxta Xshaped; aedeagus stout, weakly sclerotized in distal part; vesica with one group of short spines and one group of stout spines, which almost same length with previously mentioned short spines and with weakly scobinated area.
Female genitalia (Fig. 12). Apophyses posteriores and anteriores slender, same length; ductus bursae weakly sclerotized, stout, funnel-shaped; corpus bursae lamp-shaped, ringed by strongly sclerotized spines in cervix of bursae and a large coffee-bean shaped signum in center of bursae.
Material examined. CAMBODIA: 2 females, Samkos (N12˚12′39″, E102˚53′55″), 17–20.II.2012 (Y.S. Bae et al.); 1 female, Cambodia, Samkos (N12˚12′48.1″, E102˚54′12.5″), 6. II.2015 (Y.S. Bae et al.). THAILAND: 2 males, Prov. Mae Hong Son, Soppong, 21.VII.2009 (Y.S. Bae & D.Y. Chae), Gen. Slide No. INU-1573, 1574; 1 female, ditto, 26.VII.2009 (Y.S. Bae & D.Y. Chae), Gen. Slide No. INU-1575. VIETNAM: 1 female, Prov. NinhBinh, NP. Cucphoung, 22–25.X.2007 (Y.S. Bae et al.).
Distribution. Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, N.E. Himalaya, Nepal, China, Taiwan.
description: Published as part of Ulziijargal, Bayarsaikhan, Na, Sol-Moon & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2017, Revision of the genus Kailasha (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Oriental region, with description of one new species, pp. 85-93 in Zootaxa 4216 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.229838