Taxonomic review of Manulea subgenus Setema (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Dubatolov, V.V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Kolyma; Arctic lichen; Chukotka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.73; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X1400073X

Abstract The subgenus Setema de Freina and Witt of the genus Manulea Wallengren (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) includes several Boreal and Arctic lichen-moth species: the European Manulea ( Setema ) cereola (Hübner), the type species of the subgenus; the Siberian M. ( S. ) atratula (Eversmann), M. ( S .) debilis (Staudinger), and M. ( S .) vakulenkoi (Tshistjakov); M. ( S .) hyalinofuscatum (Tshistjakov) from Chukotka; M . ( S .) nigrocollare (Tshistjakov) from the Kolyma basin; and the North American Eilema bicolor (Grote) is also transferred into this subgenus as Manulea ( Setema ) bicolor (Grote), new combination . A key to species is given.