Barsine yuennanensis
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Černý, Karel
name: Huang, Si-yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Barsine
Barsine yuennanensis

description: Barsine yuennanensis (Daniel, 1952)
(Figs 20–22, 42, 53)
Miltochrista (Barsine) perpallida yuennanensis Daniel, 1952: 79, pl. 2, fig. 35. Type locality: “Nord Yuennan: Li-kiang” [= China, Yunnan, Lijiang].
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE (Figs 21, 42):♂, “[China, Yunnan, Lijiang] Li-kiang ca. 2000m / Prov. Nord-Yuennan / 9.VII.1934, H. Höne ” // “ ♂ Type / Milt. perpallida / ssp. yuennani / Daniel” // “♂”, slide AV1846♂ Volynkin (ZFMK). PARATYPES: 50♂♂ 7♀♀, same locality and collector as in the holotype, but 16.v. (1♂), 18.v. (1♂), 30.v. (3♂♂), 2.vi. (2 ♂♂), 6.vi. (2 ♂♂), 7.vi. (5 ♂♂), 10.vi. (2 ♂♂), 11.vi. (8 ♂♂), 12.vi. (7 ♂♂), 14.vi. (2 ♂♂), 18.vi. (6 ♂♂), 20.vi. (1 ♂), 21.vi. (2 ♂♂), 22.vi. (2 ♂♂), 26.vi. (5 ♂♂), 29.vi. (1 ♂ 1 ♀), 1.vii. (2 ♀♀) and 5.vii.1934 (4 ♀♀), slide AV1847 ♀ Volynkin (ZFMK); 1♂, same locality and collector, but 11.vi.1934, slide MWM 31630 Volynkin (MWM / ZSM).
Other material examined. 7♂♂ 1♀, [China, Yunnan, Lijiang] Li-kiang, ca. 2000 m, Prov. North Yuennan, H. Höne, 20.v. (♂), 2.vi. (♂), 12.vi. (♂), 19.vi. (♂), 28.vi. (♂), 10.vii. (♂) and 21.vii.1934 (♀) (ZFMK); 6 ♂♂, Li-kiang [Lijiang] (China), Province North Yunnan, H. Höne, 28.v., 8.vi., 17.vi., 18.vi., 22.vi.and 6.vii.1935 (ZFMK); 1♀, same locality and collector, but 1.vi.1935, slide MWM 31631 (♀) Volynkin (MWM / ZSM);1 ♂, China, Yunnan, 13 km N Caojian, 2460 m, Fengshuining Mts., 25°46′E 99°06′N, 20–30.vi.1999, slide MWM 31549 Volynkin (MWM / ZSM).
Diagnosis. Forewing length 16.5–18.5 mm in males and 19.0–20.0 mm in females. This species has two forms, striped one (Figs 21, 22) with blackish suffusion along veins, and typical one (Fig. 20) with transverse lines consisting of short longitudinal blackish dashes on veins. Barsine yuennanensis is very similar externally to B. hausmanni (Figs 17–19) and B. dao (Figs 25–28) and can be distinguished from the latter by slightly paler fore- and hindwing coloration only. Compared to B. hausmanni, it has ciliate male antennae (bipectinate in B. hausmanni), paler coloration, shorter and narrower dashes of transverse lines (longer, broader and more diffuse in B. hausmanni), and the antemedial and medial lines well separated from each other (whereas in B. hausmanni those are connected in the cell). The male and female genitalia of B. yuennanensis (Figs 42, 53) are most similar to those of B. nigrovena (Figs 43, 54) and B. eurydice (Fig. 44). The differences are listed in the diagnosis of B. nigrovena and B. eurydice.
Distribution. China (Yunnan) (DANIEL 1952, FANG 2000). The record from Thailand (ČERNÝ & PINRATANA 2009) belongs to B. hausmanni.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-yao, 2019, A review of the Barsine perpallida-B. yuennanensis species-group, with descriptions of six new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), pp. 273-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59 (1) on page 286, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2019-0022, http://zenodo.org/record/4488964