Barsine phaeodonta Volynkin & Černý 2019, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Černý, Karel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Barsine
Barsine phaeodonta

description: Barsine phaeodonta (Hampson, 1911), comb. nov.   
(Figs 1–4, 17, 25)  
 Miltochrista phaeodonta Hampson, 1911, The Annals and magazine of natural history (8) 8 (46): 406 (Type locality: [NE India, Sikkim] “ Sikhim ”).   
 Type material examined. Syntypes: 1 male (Fig. 1), “[Sikkim] Sikhim. VII.1909. F. Moller. 1910–140.” / Miltochrista phaeodonta type ♂. Hmpsn.” / round label with red circle “Type” / label with QR- code “ NHMUK010604701 ” (Coll. NHMUK); 1 male, 1 female, “[Sikkim] Sikhim. VII.1909. F. Moller. 1910– 140.” (Coll. NHMUK).   
 Other material examined. INDIA: 2 males, 5 females, India, W.B. [West Bengal], Darjeeling, 2000m, 17– 22.VII.1989, leg. Dr. W. Thomas, slides MWM 33874 (male), MWM 33875 (female) Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 male, Sikkim, H.J. Elwes / Collectio H.J. Elwes / Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1 (Coll. NHMUK); 1 female, Kurseong, Sikkim (Wilson) / Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1 (Coll. NHMUK); NEPAL: 2 males, Nepal, Ganesh Himal, 2 km N of Dhunche, 2050m, 15.IX.1995, leg. Lajos Németh, slides MWM 33519, MWM 33533 Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 female, Nepal, Ganesh Himal, 1700 m, 3 km W Gogne, 85°12" E 28°05.5 "N, 23.IX.1995, leg. B. Herczig & Gy.M. László, slides MWM 33520 (female), MWM 33534 (male) Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM); 1 male, East Nepal, Surke Danda, 1 km W of Kesawa, 2000m, 16–17. VI.1998, leg. Márton Hreblay & Bálazs Benedek, slide MWM 35740 Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM).   
 Diagnosis. Forewing length is 9.5–10 mm in males (wingspan 19–20 mm) and 11.5–12 mm in females (wingspan 23–24.5). Barsine phaeodonta (Figs 1–4) is very similar externally to B. meyi (Figs 9, 10), and differs by its slightly narrower subbasal forewing area. In the male genital capsule, B. phaeodonta (Fig. 17) differs clearly from B. meyi (Fig. 19) by its more curved costal margin of valva, more prominent costa apex, thinner medial costal process directed basally (in B. meyi that is more robust and directed ventrally), and much longer and apically pointed distal saccular process protruding beyond the valva apex. The aedeagus of B. phaeodonta is much narrower than that of B. meyi. Compared to those of B. meyi, the dorsal diverticulum of B. phaeodonta is longer and much narrower and bears a smaller apical bunch of spinules; and the distal diverticulum is narrower and bears a smaller apical bunch of spinules. In addition, B. phaeodonta lacks the sclerotized dentate band at the base of the vesica ejaculatorius. In the female genitalia (Fig. 25), the short and narrow ductus bursae is characteristic.   
 Distribution. North East India (Sikkim and north of West Bengal), Nepal.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2019, A review of the Barsine phaeodonta (Hampson, 1911) species-group, with descriptions of four new species from Indochina and India (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 70-79 in Ecologica Montenegrina 21 on page 74, DOI: 10.37828/em.2019.21.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13356247