Tarika reducta Volynkin & Saldaitis & Černý & Huang 2023, sp. n

Tarika reducta sp. n. (Figs 7, 8, 22, 23, 36) Type material. Holotype (Figs 7, 22): male, “ Thailand | Changwat Chiang Mai | Mt. Doi Phahompok | 23 km NW of Fang | 1950 m, 16. VI. 1998 | leg. István Soós | & Attila Szabó | Museum Witt” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 2021-076♁ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM / ZSM). Paratypes: THAILAND: 18 males, 25 females, same data as holotype, gen. prep. Nos.: ZSM Arct. 2021-229 (male), ZSM Arct. 2021-230 (female) (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM); 6 females, Chiang Mai, Fang, Doi Pha Hom Pok, 2110m, 20°06′35′′N, 99°07′41′′E, 19–24.III.2007, T. Ihle leg. (CKC); 1 male, 1 female, Chiang Mai, Fang, Doi Pha Hom Pok, 2050m, 20°07′30′′N, 99°08′49′′E, 21.IV.2006, K. Černý leg. (CKC); 3 males, same data as previous but 5–6. V.2006 (CKC); 2 females, Chiang Mai, Fang, Doi Ang Khang, 1425m, 19°54′10′′N, 99°2′28′′E, 25–26. V.2011, K. Černý leg. (CKC); 2 females, same locality as previous but 23–27.VII.2006, T. Ihle leg. (CKC); 3 females, Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon NP, 1500m, 18°31′5′′N, 98°31′50′′E, 28–29.IV.2006, Černý leg. (CKC); 1 male, 2 females, Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon NP, 1416m, 18°30′59′′N, 98°28′13′′E, 30.IV.2006, K. Černý leg. (CKC); 1 female, the same data as previous but 7–8. V.2008, K. Černý leg. (CKC); 2 females, Lampang, Chae Son NP, 1496m, 18°51′22′′N, 99°22′3′′E, 9. VI.2005, K. Černý leg. (CKC). Diagnosis. The forewing length is 15.5–16.0 mm in males and 18.0–19.0 mm in females. Tarika reducta sp. n. differs from most of the congeners in its smaller size and is most similar to T. biserratula sp. n., from which, however, the new species differs in the somewhat broader forewing in both sexes. The male genital capsule of T. reducta sp. n. is reminiscent of T. varana, T. annapurna sp. n. and T. erlanga sp. n. but distinguished by the somewhat longer and more upcurved claw-shaped distal section of the distal saccular process. The vesica of T. reducta sp. n. differs clearly from other congeners in the shorter distal diverticulum and thinner spiniform cornuti in the subbasal cluster. The female genitalia of the new species are distinguished from T. varana and T. erlanga sp. n. by the broader and more gelatinous ductus bursae with a medial constriction. Distribution. North Thailand (Chiang Mai and Lampang Provinces). Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the reduced distal diverticulum in the male phallus vesica, which is the shortest in the genus. The name is a noun in the nominative singular in apposition.
Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Saldaitis, Aidas, Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-Yao, 2023, Taxonomic review of the genus Tarika Moore with descriptions of six new species from Nepal, China and Indochina (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), pp. 285-300 in Zootaxa 5258 (3) on page 289, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7780233