Diduga albicosta Hampson 1891
Creators: name: Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal
name: Lee, Dong ˗ June
name: Bae, Yang ˗ Seop
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Diduga
Diduga albicosta

description: Diduga albicosta Hampson, 1891
(Figs. 1, 12, 17)
Diduga albicosta Hampson, 1891, Ill. Typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln. Br. Mus. 8: 5, 53, pl. 140: 17. TL: India (Nilgiris). Diduga albicosta: Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 540, fig. 395.
Diduga albicosta: Černý & Pinratana, 2009, Moths of Thailand 6: 12, pl. 1: 17.
Diduga albicosta: Bucsek, 2012, Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malay Peninsula˗ Malaysia: 24, pl. 4: 50. Androstigma albicosta: Hampson, 1893, Ill. Typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln. Br. Mus. 9: 82, pl. 158, f. 25.
Diagnosis. Wingspan 13˗14 mm in male and female. D. albicosta is similar to D. dubatolovi n. sp., both of them with deep yellow margins along the costa and distally in forewing, but it can be distinguished by the following characters: hind border of deep yellow margins with a shallow angle in tornus; antemedial and postmedial dark spots on costa; hindwing dark gray with dark brown patch of androconia edged with white (Figs. 1a, 1b); in male genitalia (Fig. 12), valva distinctly narrower over apical half, blunted; saccus rectangular; aedeagus short, straight, and vesica with one plate˗shaped cornutus; in female genitalia (Fig. 17), ductus bursae tubular, membranous, with a large sclerotized plate in cervix of bursae; corpus bursae ovoid, membranous, with one rounded signum.D. flavicostata(Snellen)D. flavifinisBucsek+ + + + +
Material examined. Cambodia: 1 ♂, Seima, Mondulkiri Prov. (N12˚14′56.80″, E107˚03′17.10″), 15.VIII.2013 (YS Bae, YD Ju, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim), Gen. Slide No. INU˗1417C; 1 ♂, Kirirom, Koh Kong Prov. (N11˚19′14.77″, E104˚02′11.67″), 6.II.2014 (YS Bae, KS Oh, YD Ju, MJ Qi, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee); 10 ♂, 3 ♀, Pramaoy, Pursat Prov. (N12˚12′38.72″, E102˚53′54.76″), 8˗9.II.2014 (YS Bae, KS Oh, YD Ju, MJ Qi, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee), Gen. Slide No. INU˗1194C, 1776C, 1998C, 1999C; 1 ♀, Samkos, Koh Kong Prov. (N12˚18′16.0″, E103˚06′7.00″, Alt.: 310m), 9.II.2014 (YS Bae, YD Ju, MJ Qi, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee), Gen. Slide No. INU˗10002C; 1 ♂, Samkos, Koh Kong Prov. (N12˚12′47.8″, E102˚54′23.8″), 23.XII.2014 (YS Bae, YD Ju, MJ Qi, U Bayarsaikhan, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee); 1 ♀, Samkos, Koh Kong Prov. (N12˚12′12.6″, E102˚52′10.8″, Alt.: 647m), 7. II.2015 (YS Bae, YD Ju, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee), Gen. Slide No. INU˗1413C; 1 ♂, Bokor, Kampot Prov. (N10˚39′11″, E104˚03′11″), 27.XII.2014 (YS Bae, YD Ju, MJ Qi, U Bayarsaikhan, BS Park, SM Na, JW Kim, DJ Lee), Gen. Slide No. INU˗1742C.
Distribution. Cambodia (Kampot, Koh Kong, Mondulkiri, Pursat provinces), India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, peninsular Malaysia.
Remarks. This species was reported from Cambodia by Bae et al. (2016).
description: Published as part of Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Lee, Dong ˗ June & Bae, Yang ˗ Seop, 2018, Three new species of Diduga Moore, [1887] (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from Cambodia, pp. 411-424 in Zootaxa 4514 (3) on pages 412-415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2608133