Two new mainland sister species for the Taiwanese Bharetta owadai (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Argudini)

Aidas Saldaitis; Vu van Lien; Amy Junnila; Siegfried Ihle; Harald Sulak; Roman V. Yakovlev; Julia S. Volkova; Günter C. Müller; Edita E. Revay; Tatiana A. Prozorova; Alexey M. Prozorov

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.3

Two new mainland sister species for the Taiwanese Bharetta owadai (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Argudini)

Aidas Saldaitis, Vu van Lien, Amy Junnila, Siegfried Ihle, Harald Sulak, Roman V. Yakovlev, Julia S. Volkova, Günter C. Müller, Edita E. Revay, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Alexey M. Prozorov

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Bharetta owadai Kishida, 1986, was considered a widespread Indomalayan species occurring in Taiwan (type-locality), mainland China and Vietnam. Study of the genitalia of adults and barcoding showed that the taxon is a group of sister species. Allopatric Taiwanese and mainland populations have a slight difference in male genitalia and a distinct genetic distance of 3.26–4.56 %, which allowed description of the mainland population as a new species, Bharetta sarah sp. nov. known from Guanxi (type-locality) and Jianxi Provinces in China, and northern Vietnam. The second new species, Bharetta hanne sp. nov., has distinct male genitalia and is found on Fansipan Mountain (type-locality) and a nearby mountain ridge. Adults, their genitalia, distribution map, and phylogenetic tree are illustrated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	470-484
Number of pages	15
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	5633
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.3
State	Published - 13 May 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

biodiversity
China
Indomalayan realm
lappet moth
new species
Vietnam

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Animal Science and Zoology

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Two new mainland sister species for the Taiwanese Bharetta owadai (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Argudini)

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