Gandhara jieenchenae Chen & Wu 2020
- 1. Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia
- 2. Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- 3. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
- 4. Jiangxi Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve Management Bureau, Longnan Jiangxi 341700, China
Description
Gandhara jieenchenae D.-J. Chen & Wu, 2020
(Figs 19, 20, 38, 46)
Gandhara jieenchenae D.-J. Chen & Wu, 2020, Japan Heterocerists’ Journal, 294: 482 (Type locality: “Taiwan, Taichung Co., Heping, Sheishanken ”).
Type material examined. Photograph of the holotype (Fig. 19): male, Taiwan, Taichung Co., Heping, Sheishanken, 13.II.2015, D.J. Chen leg. (NMNS); photograph of the paratype (Fig. 20): female, same data as holotype (NMNS).
Additional material examined: TAIWAN: 1 male, Nantou Co., 1300m, 6 km E Wushe, 24°01’82’’N 121°10’65’’E, 21.IV.1997, L. Peregovits & A. Kun leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2019-1095 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM/ ZSM); 1 female, Lushan, Nantou [County], 6. V.1980, Sk. Yamane leg. (NHMUK); 1 male, 1 female, Lushan Spa, 1200m, Nantou Hsien, 29.IV.–1. V.1984, H. Yoshimoto leg., gen. prep. No.: 12969 Inoue (female) (NHMUK); 1 female, Shihtzulu, 1520m, Chiayi Hsien, 5–6. V.1984, H. Yoshimoto leg. (NHMUK); 1 female, Wushe, Nantow [Nantou County], 1986 (NHMUK).
Diagnosis. The wingspan is 22.0–27.0 mm in males and 24.0–27.0 mm in females (Chen & Wu 2020). The forewing length is 13.0–13.5 mm in the specimens of both sexes examined. Gandhara jieenchenae is morphologically very similar to G. conica and the detailed comparison is provided above in the diagnosis of the latter species.
Distribution. Endemic to Taiwan Island (Chen & Wu 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK , NMNS , V , ZSM
- Event date
- 1997-04-21 , 2015-02-13
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Gandhara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Chen & Wu
- Species
- jieenchenae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1997-04-21 , 2015-02-13
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gandhara jieenchenae Chen, 2020 sec. Volynkin, Černý, Huang & Hu, 2023
References
- Chen, D. - J. & Wu, S. (2020) Description of a new Gandhara Moore, 1878 species of Taiwan (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiine). Japan Heterocerists' Journal, 294, 482 - 484.