Barsine obsoleta Reich 1937, comb. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Černý, Karel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Barsine
Barsine obsoleta

description: Barsine obsoleta (Reich, 1937), comb. n.
(Figs. 5–6, 19, 27)
Miltochrista gratiosa f. obsoleta Reich, 1937, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 51: 120 (Type locality: [China, Zhejiang] “West Tien-mu-shan”).
Type material examined. Neotype (Figs. 5, 19), designated herein for Miltochrista gratiosa f. obsoleta Reich, 1937: ♂, whitish printed label "West Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang [Zhejiang], 29.V.1932, H. Höne " / dark pink handwritten label " ♂ Type Mil. [ochrista] gratiosa ssp. obsoleta Reich I. Gen. " / greyish printed label with a sign " ♂ ", slide AV 1834m Volynkin (Coll. ZFMK).
Other material examined: 13 ♂, 1 ♀, [China, Zhejiang] West Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang, H. Höne, 9.V., 15.V., 16.V., 24.V., 25.V., 26.V., 29.V., 2.VI., 4.VI., 9.VI.1932, slide AV1835f Volynkin (♀) (Coll. ZFMK); 3 ♂, 1 ♀, [China, Zhejiang] Ost Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang, H. Höne, 7.V., 2.VI., 11.vi., 13.VI.1931 (Coll. ZFMK); 1 ♀, [China, Zhejiang] Mokanshan, Prov. Chekiang, H. Höne, 9.V. [19]19 (Coll. ZFMK); 1 ♀, [China, Zhejiang] Ost Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang, Höne, 18.VI.1931 (Coll. ZFMK); 1 ♀, [China, Zhejiang] Ost Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang, H. Höne, 1.VI.1931 (Coll. ZFMK); 2 ♂, [China, Zhejiang] West Tien-Mu-Shan (1600 m), Pz. Chekiang, H. Höne, 2.VI., 6.VI.1932 (Coll. ZFMK).
Note. One male specimen in coll. ZFMK from West Tien-mu-shan, 29.V.1932 (Fig. 5) is labelled as a " Type ", and series of both sexes from the same locality and "Ost Tien-mu-shan" are labeled as " paratypes ". Nevertheless, in the original description, Reich (1937) mentioned only one female specimen with the label " West Tien-mu-shan, 10.VI. " which must be treated as holotype by monotypy. Thus, the "type" male is not a type in fact, as well as all other "paratype" specimens because there are no any specimens in ZFMK collection from West Tien-mu-shan with a date 10.VI. Daniel (1951) mentioned the existence of this specimen in materials examined by Reich, but without any mention of collection. In ZFMK collection there is a female specimen with a label handwritten by F. Daniel "Reich hat nach diesem Stück ssp. obsoleta beschrieben. Es stellt die ♀- Type der gen. vern. clar", but this specimen has the date 4.VI.1932, and therefore cannot be the holotype. In addition, there is no specimen of B. obsoleta having the label mentioned in Zoological Museum of Tel-Aviv University (TAU, Israel) where the Reich's collection is deposited at present (V.D. Kravchenko, pers. comm.), as well as in the collection of Naturkunde Museum (NKMB, Berlin, Germany) where some specimens from the Reich's collection are also deposited (W. Mey, pers. comm.), therefore we can conclude that the holotype is lost. At the same time, many Barsine species have similar external appearance, and to avoid probable confusion and for the nomenclature stabilization the neotype designation is necessary. As the neotype we designate the male specimen in ZFMK collection labeled as " Type " (Figs. 5, 19).
Diagnosis. Externally (Figs. 5–6), the species differs clearly from two other relatives (Figs. 7–12) by its pale yellow ground color and significantly reduced blackish pattern elements. The male genitalia (Fig. 19) is closer to that of B. callorufa (Figs. 20–21), but the uncus is broader, the valvae is slightly broader, the medial costal process is longer, the basal saccular process is narrower distally, the 1st medial diverticulum with weaker scobination, the main lobe of the 2nd medial diverticulum is smaller and covered with much weaker cornuti, the 5th medial diverticulum is smaller, and the 3rd medial diverticulum is slightly longer. The female genitalia (Fig. 27) differ from B. callorufa (Fig. 28), by the much more rugose antrum, and the somewhat longer and posteriorly narrower ductus bursae. Differences from B. fossi are listed in the diagnosis of the latter.
Distribution. Eastern China (Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian) (Reich 1937; Fang 2000). The record for Nepal (Daniel 1961) is doubtful.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2017, A review of the Barsine obsoleta species-group with description of a new species from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 188-200 in Zootaxa 4254 (2) on pages 189-193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/545869