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A New Moth of the Genus Soritia (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae) from Northern Vietnam ῏῕῍ΐῐ῔ῌ (48), pp. 47ῌ52, 2012 ῒ 3 ῎ 28 ῑ Mem. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Tokyo, (48), pp. 47ῌ52, March28, 2012 A New Moth of the Genus Soritia (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae) from Northern Vietnam Mamoru Owada1, ῍ and Kiyoshi Horie2 1 Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4ῌ1ῌ1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305ῌ0005, Japan 2 1ῌ27ῌ21 Sangenjaya, Setagaya, Tokyo 154ῌ0024, Japan ῍ E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. A new species of the zygaenid chalcosiine genus Soritia Walker, 1854, Soritia tahuythinhi Owada et Horie, sp. nov., is described from northern Vietnam. This new species is a member of the S. elizabetha-group: S. elizabetha Walker, 1854, from central China, S. choui Yen et Yang, 1998, from Taiwan, and S. azurea Yen, 2003, from Taiwan. The forewing ground colour of this moth changes from bright yellow to yellow with orange brown tinge according to their age. Key words: moth, Soritia tahuythinhi, new species, Vietnam. Because of sexual dimorphism, identification primarginata” sensu Endo & Kishida (1999). of male and female of the same species is After careful examination, we recognized that frequently di$cult in moths of the genus the moth is new to science. Thus, the new Soritia Walker, 1854 (Yen & Yang, 1998; species is described in the present paper. Horie et al., 2000; Yen, 2003). In such a case, rearing is indispensable to obtain a true pair. Soritia tahuythinhi Owada et Horie, sp. nov. Endo & Kishida (1999) recorded and il- (Figs. 1ῌ6) lustrated a pair of moths from N. Vietnam under the name of “Eterusia proprimarginata”. Eterusia proprimarginata: Endo and Kishida, 1999, p. ῌ However, having illustrated the male holotype 58, figs. 11 12, nec Prout, 1918. “Eterusia proprimarginata” sensu Endo and Kishida: of Soritia proprimarginata (Prout, 1918), Yen Yen, 2003, pp. 39, 42. (2003) pointed out their misidentification, and suggested that Soritia azuera Yen, 2003 from Male (Figs. 1ῌ3). Length of forewing: 20ῌ Taiwan was most similar to the moth from 26 mm; expanse: 41ῌ54 mm. Head bluish black, Vietnam in question. frons yellow. Antenna bipectinate, bluish black. In the joint research project of the insect Thorax bluish black, tegula yellow, legs yellow, fauna of northern Vietnam, conducted by the light blue dorsally. Abdomen bluish black National Science Museum (National Museum dorsally, yellow and black ventrally. On the of Nature and Science), Tokyo, Hanoi Agri- upperside of forewing, ground colour bluish cultural University, and the Institute of Ecolo- black, with long yellow lines in the cell and gy and Biological Resources, Hanoi, we col- along vein CuP, median and submarginal lines lected female Soritia moths at Tam Dao near yellow, broad, discoidal mark yellow, large, Hanoi, which laid several eggs. The breeding of nearly round; ground colour of hindwing the moth species from the eggs to adults was yellow, veins stained with bluish black, forming successfully carried out in laboratory and an reticulate marking in submarginal area, costa adequate number of adult moths were and terminal margin black. emerged, which were exactly same as “E. pro- Female (Figs. 4ῌ6). Length of forewing: 48 Mamoru Owada and Kiyoshi Horie Figs. 1ῌ8. Soritia tahuythinhi Owada et Horie, sp. nov. 1. Holotype, male, bred. 2, 3. Paratypes, male, collected in the fields. 4ῌ6. Paratypes, female (4, bred; 5, “white-2”; 6, “white-1”. Natural size.). 7, 8. Mature larva. 21ῌ27 mm; expanse: 43ῌ56 mm. Head yellow, yellow, with blue segmental lines. On the up- margin of frons black. Antenna bipectinate perside of forewing yellow, costal and terminal shortly, bluish black. Thorax yellow, legs margin blue, 5 to 6 blue patches around dis- yellow, light blue dorsally. Abdomen cream cocelullar vein; ground colour of hindwing New Moth of Soritia from Northern Vietnam 49 Fig. 9. Male genitalia of Soritia tahuythinhi. whitish yellow, 4 to 5 blue patches around ly narrowed toward pointed apex. 8th tergite discocellular vein. triangular, caudally convex at the middle, with Male genitalia (Fig. 9). Tegumen and uncus a pair of long sclerotized processes interiorly; long, sub-triangular, with long bristles in 8th sternite with a pair of processes, which bear caudal margin. Vinculum with small rec- blackish bristles heavily. tangular saccus. Valva sclerotized, with a Female genitalia (Fig. 10). Papillae anales membranous and hairy portion apically; in and 8th abdominal segment long, slender. the inner side of valva, a markedly sclerotized Ostium opening present in 7th sternite; ductus plate present, margin of it heavily dentate. bursae long, slightly sclerotized in posterior Aedeagus obtusely bent in the middle, gradual- half; corpus bursae ovate. 50 Mamoru Owada and Kiyoshi Horie Fig. 10. Female genitalia of Soritia tahuythinhi. New Moth of Soritia from Northern Vietnam 51 Type series. Holotype (Fig. 1), male, Tam [sic]. It is doubtless that S. tahuythinhi form Dao, Vinh Phu, Vietnam, bred, em. 7. III. Vietnam and S. azurea from Taiwan belong to 1998, ex mother “white-2”, in the National the elizabetha-group by the characters of wing Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba. maculation and male genitalia. It is worth Paratypes: 60 ῌ 34 ῍, same data as holotype, noting that two related species are distributed em. from 14. I. to 20. IV. 1998; 1 ῍ῌ “white-2” in and endemic to Taiwan, and the Vietnamese (Fig. 6), same locality, 1,230 m, 20ῌ23. X. species is closely related to one of them, S. 1997, M. Owada leg.; 13 ῌ 12 ῍, same locality, azurea. bred, em. from 11. I. to 7. IV. 1998, ex mother In the male wing maculation, S. tahuythinhi “white-1”; 1 ῍ῌ “white-1” (Fig. 5), same data is easily distinguished from the other species by as “white-2”; 1 ῌ (Fig. 2), same locality, 3. V. the bluish black ground colour, which is dark 1998, Y. Arita leg.; 2 ῌ, same locality, 1ῌ3. VI. brown in S. elizabetha, and black in S. choui 1997, Y. Okushima leg.; 6 ῌ (Fig. 3) 4 ῍, same and S. azurea. The metallic blue hindwing of data as “white-2”, 1 ῍, same locality, 1,000ῌ S. azurea is unique. In the female, the hind- 1,230 m, 12ῌ13, 21ῌ23. V. 2003, M. Owada wing ground colour of S. elizabetha is yellow, leg.; 3 ῌ 1 ῍, same locality, 16ῌ22. V. 1998, ex while it is white in the other species; the fore- Y. Kishida coll.; 2 ῌ, same locality, VI. 2003, wing of S. choui has dark brown patches, which ex H. Inoue coll.; 1 ῌ 1 ῍,CaoBang, VIII. are not found in S. azurea and S. tahuythinhi; 2001. In the National Museum of Nature and there are 4 to 5 blue patches in the hindwing of Science, Tsukuba, and the Institute of Ecolog- S. tahuythinh, while these patches are almost ical and Biological Resources, Hanoi. absent in S. azurea. Distribution. Northern Vietnam. Notes. The holotype of Soritia tahuythinhi is Diagnosis. The male wing maculation of a bred specimen. Flesh emerged specimens of Soritia tahuythinhi is unique in moths of this species are bright yellow (Figs. 1, 4), and Soritia. As was pointed by Yen (2003), the the ground colour of rather worn specimens wing maculation of male S. azurea from (Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6) in the fields is tinged with Taiwan is rather similar to this species, but the orange brown to brown. conformation of yellow markings on the fore- # wing is quite di erent and the hindwing bears Acknowledgements bluish luster, which is only found on veins in S. tahuythinhi. In the male genitalia, the We are deeply indebted to Dr. Ta Huy sclerotized plate with dentate margin of this Thinh, Institute of Ecology and Biological Re- species is not found in other species of Soritia. sources, Hanoi, Dr. Ha Quang Hung and Dr. Etymology. This species is dedicated to Dr. Tran Dinh Chien, Hanoi Agricultural Univer- Ta Huy Thinh, the Institute of Ecology and sity, for their kind aids in the field surveys and Biological Resources, Hanoi, for his kind aids breeding of chalcosiine moths in this study. We to our joint research of the fauna of northern express our sincere thanks to Dr. Hirotsugu Vietnam. Ono of the National Museum of Nature and Relationship and diagnosis. Yen (2003, 2003 Science, Tsukuba, for reading this manuscript, a) proposed to separate moths of Soritia into and to the following entomologists for the ma- several species groups, and listed two species, terial: Dr. Yutaka Arita, Nagoya, Dr. Yuichi S. elizabetha (Walker, 1854) from central and Okushima, Kurashiki Museum of Natural His- northern China and S. choui Yen et Yang, 1998 tory, Mr. Yasunori Kishida, Tokyo, and the from Taiwan, in the elizabetha-group. The syn- late Hiroshi Inoue. apomorphic characters were enumerated by Yen et al. (2005) under the elizabethae-group 52 Mamoru Owada and Kiyoshi Horie References 39ῌ46. Yen, S.-H., 2003a. Pylogeny and systematic of the Endo, T. & Y. Kishida, 1999. Day-Flying Moths, Chal- major lineages of Chalcosiinae s. l. (Zygaenidae s. l.): cosiinae and Epicopeia. 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