Barsine salakia Volynkin & Černý & Huang 2019, comb. n.
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 salakia

description: Barsine salakia (Schaus, 1922), comb. n.
(Figs 149–151, 220, 221, 270)
Miltochrista salakia Schaus, 1922, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 10: 35 (Type locality: [Indonesia] “Mt. Salak, Java ”).
Material examined. INDONESIA: 1 ♂, Indonesia, N Sumatra, Huta Padang, 175 m, 3.IV.1989, leg. E. Diehl, slide AV3647 ♂ Volynkin (Coll. CKC); 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Indonesia, N Sumatra, Berastagi, Mt. Sibayak, 1500 m, 1994 ex larva, K. Černý, slides AV3648 ♀, AV3649 ♂ Volynkin (Coll. CKC); 1 ♀, Nongkodjajar, E Java, 4000’, II.1934 (A.M.R. Wegner), slide AV1895 ♀ Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK); 8 ♂, 11 ♀, same locality and collector, but I.1934 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 ♀, West Java, 1892 (Coll. NHMUK); 28 ♂, 22 ♀, Central Bali, Bedugul District, Tamblingan N. P., 1200 m, 08°14´S, 115°08´E, I–II.2004, leg. St. Jakl (Coll. MWM/ ZSM); 6 ♂, 2 ♀, Indonesia, Bali, Bedugul reg., 1250 m, Tamblingan Lakes, 20.VI.–30.VII.2004, leg. Stanislav Jákl (Coll. MWM/ ZSM); 1 ♂, Batoeriti, E Bali, 3500’, V.1936. (J.P.A. Kalis), slide AV1894 ♂ Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK); 6 ♂, same locality and collector, but VI.1935 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Indonesia, [N] Bali sept., 1 km N Lake Bulyan, Desa Vanagiri, Pura Tirta Ketipat, 1340 m, ex larva 1999, cloudy forest, leg. Karel Černý, slides AV3645 ♂, AV3646 ♀ Volynkin (Coll. CKC).
Diagnosis. Forewing length is 11.5–14 mm in both sexes. Externally, B. salakia resembles B. hypoprepioides, but differs clearly by its slightly larger size, broader forewing, pure white coloration (that is pale yellowish in B. hypoprepioides), shorter antemedial spots, interrupted antemedial line, smoothly curved medial line (that is angled in B. hypoprepioides), interrupted and stronger curved postmedial line, narrower subterminal area, subterminal strokes on veins being shorter and not connected to spots of the postmedial line, white forewing cilia (those are blackish in B. hypoprepioides), and the absence of a pattern on hindwing (in B. hypoprepioides, the hindwing pattern consists of a diffuse fuscous medial transverse line and blackish longitudinal strokes on veins in the subterminal area). The male genitalia of B. salakia differ clearly from those of other members of the species-group by their densely spinulose manica, and plate-like medial costal process. The male genitalia of B. salakia are also very different from those of other relatives and characterized by the very broad, heavily sclerotized and rugose ductus bursae, which smoothly passes to the latero-posterior sclerotized area of corpus bursae (the latter continuous in the appendix bursae), the short corpus bursae situated more or less perpendicularly to the ductus bursae axis, and the very small, conical appendix bursae having a lateral sclerotized area connected to the sclerotized area of corpus bursae.
Distribution. Indonesia (Sumatra, Java and Bali islands).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-Yao, 2019, A review of the Barsine hypoprepioides (Walker, 1862) species-group, with descriptions of fifteen new species and a new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4618 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4618.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3248201