Arctornis lingnana Yuan & Ye & Huang & Wang 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yuan, Ziqi
name: Ye, Peizhao
name: Huang, Weichao
name: Wang, Houshuai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Arctornis
Arctornis lingnana

description: Arctornis lingnana Yuan & Wang sp. nov.
Diagnosis. The new species can be easily distinguished from all other congeners by the valva having a short fingerlike process at the dorsal base, and a long clavate process extending from the ventral base to the cucullus.
Description. Adults (Figs. 1–2, 5, 7). Forewing length: 14–18 mm in males; 18–22 mm in females. Frons and vertex covered with dark orange hairs. Labial palpus orange. Antenna bipectinate, stronger in males than in females, pale orange. Thorax and abdomen white. Forewing and hindwing white, with brown hairs on termen in males. Forewing costa orange about distal 1/4. Wing venation light green, forewings with vein R 3, R 4 and R 5 stalked, R 5 and M 1 almost parallel, M 2 and M 3 originating from the lower angle of discal cell; hindwing with R s and M 1 stalked, M 2 present. Legs white, with orange hairs terminally; hindlegs with a pair of white tibial spurs.
Male genitalia (Fig. 9). Uncus short, digitate, pointed apically. Valva broad, elongate, folded inward at dorsum, with a short fingerlike process at dorsal base, a long clavate process from ventral base extending to cucullus; cucullus concaved inward at ventral half, dentate and strongly sclerotized at outer edge of dorsal half. Aedeagus short, more sclerotized distally.
Female genitalia (Fig. 11). Papillae anales strongly sclerotized, finger-shaped, curved medially. Apophyses anteriores short, apophyses posteriores reduced. Ostium V-shaped, sclerotized. Ductus relatively long, membranous. Bursa nearly elliptical, with numerous stripe-like wrinkles, signum large, densely covered with tiny thorns.
Larvae (Figs. 12–18). First instar body length 3 mm; yellow green dorsally, dark brown laterally; thoracic verrucae white; A2, A5 and A9 with white verrucae. Second, third and fourth instars with black body coloration; thoracic verrucae orange in second instar, dark orange in third instar, black in fourth instar; abdominal verrucae white on A2 and A5 of instars 2–4, orange or black on A9 of the third and fourth instars; A3–5 with orange and black short brushes. Fifth instar body length 28 mm, ochre in ground color, with white stripes on thorax and abdomen; cephalic capsule black, clypeus white, labial, and antenna orange; each segment with a pair of orange lateral verrucae; brushes of A3–5 and A9 orange, but mixed with black color; middorsal gland white in all instars.
Pupae (Fig. 19). Green, with a small yellow dot near spiracle on A2–A5.
Host-plant. Castanopsis fissa. (Champ. ex Benth.) Rehd. et Wils. (Fagaceae).
Type material. Holotype: ♂, Fenghuangshan Provincial Nature Reserve, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, 23º53’3.5376” N, 116º35’46.896” E, altitude 600 m, 1-V-2024, leg. Ziqi Yuan. Paratypes: 4♂, 2♀, same collecting data as holotype.
Distribution. China (Guangdong).
Etymology. The new species is named after Lingnan, an area to the south of Wu Ling mountains in China.
description: Published as part of Yuan, Ziqi, Ye, Peizhao, Huang, Weichao & Wang, Houshuai, 2025, Two new species of the genus Arctornis Germar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, pp. 437-444 in Zootaxa 5609 (3) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/15215324