Abstract
Three new species of the genus Aemene Walker, 1854 are described: Aemene cernyi sp. n. (NE India and E Nepal), Aemene laszloi sp. n. (C Nepal) and Aemene bucseki sp. n. (C Nepal and Pakistan). The Aemene taprobanis Walker, 1854 species-group is established and characterised. The status of one taxon previously considered as a junior synonym of A. taprobanis is revised: Aemene sinuata Moore, 1878, stat. rev. A taxon previously considered as a subspecies of A. taprobanis is upgraded to species level: Aemene likiangensis (Daniel, 1951), stat. nov. Lectotypes are designated for Aemene taprobanis Walker, 1854, Panassa cingalesa Walker, 1865, Autoceras grammophora Felder, 1874 and Aemene sinuata Moore, 1878. Adults together with the male and the female genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.
References
Bendib, A. & Minet, J. (1999) Lithosiine main lineages and their possible interrelationships. 1. Definition of new or resurrected tribes (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 35, 241–263.
Bucsek, K. (2012) Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malaya Peninsula-Malaysia. Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava, 170 pp.
Bucsek, K. (2014) Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malaya Peninsula-Malaysia (Supplementum). Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava, 45 pp.
Bucsek, K. (2020) Contribution to the knowledge of Lithosiini (Erebidae, Arctiinae) of central and northern Laos, part 3. Entomofauna carpathica, 32 (2), 19–46.
Butler, A.G. (1877) On the Lepidoptera of the family Lithosiidae, in the collection of British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1877, 325–377, pl. 8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1877.tb02919.x
Daniel, F. (1951) Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arctiidae Ostasiens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ausbeuten von Dr. h. c. H. Höne aus diesem Gebiet (Lep.-Het.). III. Teil: Lithosiinae. Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 2 (3–4), 291–327. [in German]
Draudt, M. (1914) Arctiidae.—Tiger moths (Miltochrista to Stenosa). In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 10. Die Indo-Australischen Spinner und Schwärmer. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 135–223. [in German]
Dubatolov, V.V. & Bucsek, K. (2013) New species of lichen-moths from South-East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Lithosiini). Tinea, 22 (4), 279–291.
Dubatolov, V.V. & Bucsek, K. (2016) New lichen-moth taxa (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) from Vietnam. Euroasian entomological journal, 15 (3), 228–238.
Dubatolov, V.V., Kishida, Y. & Wang, M. (2012) New records of lichen-moths from the Nanling Mts., Guangdong, South China, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). Tinea, 22 (1), 25–52.
Fang, C. (2000) Lepidoptera. Arctiidae. Fauna Sinica (Insecta). Vol. 19. Science Press, Beijing, 590 pp. [in Chinese with English summary]
Felder, C. & Rogenhofer, A.F. (1874) Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Behilfen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Band 2. Abtheilung 2. Lepidoptera. Kaiserlich Königlich Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien, 10 pp., pls. 75–120. [in German]
Hampson, G.F. (1900) Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 2, 1–590.
Hampson, G.F. (1891) Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Part 8. The lepidoptera of heterocera of the Nilgiri district. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 144 pp., pls. 139–156.
Holloway, J.D. (2001) The Moths of Borneo, part 7. Family Arctiidae, subfamily Lithosiinae. Malayan Nature Journal, 55, 279–486.
ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. The International Trust of Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.
Inoue, H. (1965) One new genus, two new species and four unrecorded species of the Arctiidae from Japan (Lepidoptra). Kontyû, 33 (2), 241–245.
Kirti, J.S. & Singh, N. (2016) Arctiid Moths of India. Vol. 2. Nature Books India, New Delhi, 214 pp.
Kishida, Y. (1994) Arctiidae. In: Haruta, T. (Ed.), Moths of Nepal. Vol. 3. Tinea, 14 (Supplement 1), pp. 66–71.
Kishida, Y. (2010) Descriptions of new species and new subspecies of Japanese Macrolepidoptera (1). Tinea, 21 (2), 57–69.
Matsumura, S. (1927) New species and subspecies of moths from the Japanese Empire. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 19 (1), 1–91.
Moore, F. (1878) A revision of certain genera of European and Asiatic Lithosiinae, with characters of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 3–37, pls. 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1878.tb07927.x
Swinhoe, C. (1894) New species of Eastern Lepidoptera. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 14 (84), 429–443. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939408677830
Volynkin, A.V. & Černý, K. (2017) Description of a new Aemene Walker, 1854 from North Thailand and Myanmar, with a checklist of the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 4306 (3), 444–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.11
Walker, F. (1854) s.n. In: List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 2. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, pp. 279–581.
Walker, F. (1865) s.n. In: List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 32. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, pp. 323–706.