title: A new species Micrarctia kautti (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) from West China.
abstract: A new tiger moth, Micrarctia kautti sp. n., from southwest China, Sichuan is described. A diagnostic comparison with Micrarctia trigona (Leech, 1899) is provided. During recent years the Chinese Arctiini have been intensively collected and explored (Dubatolov, 1996a; Dubatolov, 1996b; Dubatolov, 2003; Dubatolov, Kishida & Wu, 2005; Fang & Cao, 1984; Fang, 2000 and numerous other publications) so the discovery of a striking new species by Sergey Murzin in the Dafengding Mountains, Sichuan Province, was most unexpected. Institutional acronyms used are as follows: ASV = Aidas Saldaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania); KNE = Kari Nupponen (Espoo, Finland); PKT = Peter Kautt (Tübingen, Germany); RMB = Ramon Macià (Barselona, Spain); WIGJ = World Insect Gallery (Joniškis, Lithuania).
authors.affiliation: Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.; Email: saldrasa@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Aidas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saldaitis
authors.affiliation: H-1068, Budapest, Felsõerdõsor utca 16-18, Hungary; Email: opbp@t-online.hu.
authors.forename: Oleg
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pekarsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D002681:China; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology*