Nyctemera (Deilemera) hampsoni Dubatolov & Volynkin 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Dubatolov, Vladimir V.
name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Nyctemera
Nyctemera hampsoni

description: Nyctemera (Deilemera) hampsoni (Swinhoe, 1889), comb. nov.
(Figs. 1–3, 13, 17)
Migoplastis hampsoni Swinhoe, 1889: 402, pl. 43, fig. 2; Hampson, 1894: 44. Type locality: “Nilgiri Hills, northern slopes 3500 feet ” [India, Madras].
Paraplastis hampsoni, Hampson, 1901: 507 –508; Rothschild, 1914: 263, fig. 25g; Sing & Singh, 2011: 242 –244; Kirti & Singh, 2015: 60.
Type material examined. Syntypes: 1 ♂, "Nilgiris (Lindsay), 90-121" / " Migoplastis hampsoni Swinhoe Type ♂" / "Type" / "2347 ♂" / "88" / label with QR-code "NHMUK010606065" (Coll. NHM); 1 ♀, "Nilgiris. G. F.
Hampson. 90-121." / " Migoplastis hampsoni Swinhoe Type ♀" / "Type" / "2347" / label with QR-code "NHMUK010606074" (Coll. NHM).
Other material examined. SOUTH INDIA: 1 ♀, Palni Hills, S. India, 1907, No NHMUK010606036, slide NHMUK10313519 Volynkin (♀) (Coll. NHM); 1 ♀, Nilgiris, Hampson Coll., 89-129, 462. 73., NHMUK010606066 (Coll. NHM); 3 ♀, Nilgiris, Rothschild Bequest B.M. I939-I. (Coll. NHM); 1 ♀, Tamil Nadu, Tirmellvilly Distr., Singhumetti Hills, 3260 ft., 12–19.IV.1972, C.J.H. Pruett, B.M. 1974-429 (Coll. NHM); 3 ♂, T.N. [Tamil Nadu], Palani Hills, near Oothu, 1200 m, 15.VII.1990, leg. W. Thomas, slide MWM 31696 Volynkin (♂) (Coll. MWM/ ZSM).
Diagnosis. Adults (Figs. 1–3). Antennae bipectinate in males and bidentate in females. Head and patagia lacking black spots. Tegulae centered with small black spots in medial area; a row of three small black spots is visible on thorax. Forewing with ground color brown; light medial band pale, outlined by darker color, its medial edge convex towards wing base, diffused toward ends; postmedial edge straight from costa to median veins, here angled then concave toward base; veins paler; male hind wings yellowish-orange, with hind edge strongly concave and tornal angle prominent; hindwing with the rough orange androconial scales on external area; female hindwing without modifications. Abdomen yellow with dorsal row of black spots. Male genitalia (Fig. 13). Uncus S-shaped, valvae triangularly convex-concave, with asymmetrical heavy apical process: left one slightly enlarged covered with small teeth apically, right one finger-like, with subapical enlargening; costal edge of valva with narrow fingerlike process (ampulla) subbasally; saccus triangular; aedeagus short, distally broadened; vesica with long and narrow diverticulum with two small apical subdiverticuli; ductus ejaculatorius situated subbasally. Female genitalia (Fig. 17). Ovipositor short, conical. Apophyses long and thin, apophyses anteriores shorter and broader than apophyses posteriores. Antrum weakly sclerotized, dorso-ventrally flattened; ductus bursae long and narrow, S-like curved in its anterior half, membranous; corpus bursae elliptical, with two small elliptical signa posteriorly and one smaller and narrower signum in medial section.
Distribution. South India.
description: Published as part of Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Volynkin, Anton V., 2017, On the systematic position of the genera Paraplastis Hampson, Migoplastis Felder and Dondera Moore (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) in Zootaxa 4358 (2), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1068066