Cyana moelleri
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Kirti, Jagbir Singh
name: Datta, Harvinder Singh
name: Ivanova, Maria S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Cyana
Cyana moelleri

description: Cyana moelleri (Elwes, 1890)
(Figs 80–83, 195, 263)
Bizone mölleri Elwes, 1890, Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 395 (Type locality: “ Sikkim, … Cherra Pungi in the Khasia Hills”).
= molleri, misspelling.
Type material examined. Lectotype (designated herein) (Fig. 80): ♂, printed label “ Sikkim. O. Möller. ” / handwrit- ten label “ Bizone Molleri Elwes type” / printed label “ Collectio H. J. Elwes ” / printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939–1.” / printed round label with a red circle “Type” / printed label with a unique identifier “NHMUK010597909” (Coll. NHMUK).
Other material examined. SIKKIM: 1 ♂, Sikkim, VIII.1909, F. Moller, 1910–140 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 ♀, Sik- kim, 5000 ft., Kurseong, 7–20.VI.[19]22, Fletcher coll. (Coll. NHMUK); 3 ♂, 10 ♀, India, Sikkim, Legship, 500 m, 24–28.VII.1990, leg. W. Thomas, slide MWM 34412 (♂) Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 11 ♂, 10 ♀, India, Sikkim, Namchi, 1000 m, 2.VII.1986, leg. W. Thomas, slides MWM 34408 (♂), MWM 34505 (♂), ZSM Arct. 123/2017 ♀ Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 ♂, 2 ♂, Sikkim, Ta Tak Dah, VI.[19]20, slides MWM 34506 (♂), MWM 34507 (♀) Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 2 ♂, India-Sikkim, Pemayangtse, 1200 m, below Rimbi, Lf., 26.VIII.1988, leg. Dr. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); WEST BENGAL: 1 ♂, India WB, Darjeeling Mangpu-road, 1800 m, 18.VI.1987, leg. W. Thomas, coll. Dr. W. Thomas, Mus. Witt, München (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 ♂, India W.B., 850 m, Darjeeling, Pashok, 4.VII.1986, leg. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 2 ♂, India W.B., Darjeeling, Manjitar, 700 m, 20.VII.1990, leg. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 ♀, India WB, Darjeeling, 2100 m, 19–21.VII.1990, leg. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 ♀, India W.B., Darjeeling, 5 km above Rambi, 800 m, 30.VII.1990, leg. Dr. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 ♀, India-W.B., Darjeeling Mangpu Road, 1900 m, Lf., 29.VI.1987, leg. Dr. W. Thomas (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 3 ♂, 4 ♀, India W.B., 1700 m, Kalimpong, Algarah, 5–6.VII.1986, leg. W. Thomas, slide MWM 35879 (♀) Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM).
Remark. In the original description, Elwes (1890) mentioned one male and two females from Sikkim, and a male from Khasi Hills, which are syntypes. As the population from Khasi Hills belongs to the allopatric sister species C. watsoni, the lectotype designation is necessary. Here we designate the male specimen from Sikkim deposited in NHMUK and labeled as “Type” as lectotype.
Diagnosis. Forewing length is 12.5–14 mm in males and 15.5–16.5 mm in females. The species significantly varies in its size and size of black spots on male forewing, but the male genitalia of different populations are uniform. Differences from C. watsoni are listed in the diagnosis of the latter.
Distribution. Cyana moelleri is an Eastern Himalayan species known from North East India (Sikkim and north of West Bengal) and Central and East Nepal (present study). Records for Meghalaya (India), Myanmar (Hampson 1900) and South West China (Fang 2000) belong to C. watsoni. The record for Thailand (Černý & Pinratana 2009, as C. molleri, missp.) belongs to C. ariadne Volynkin & Černý, 2019 widespread in North Thailand, North Vietnam and South East China (Volynkin & Černý 2019a).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Volynkin, Anton V., Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Datta, Harvinder Singh & Ivanova, Maria S., 2020, A review of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 from India, with descriptions of five new species and three new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 4738 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4738.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3672439