title: A new species Spilarctia duda (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae) from China.
abstract: A new tiger moth, Spilarctia duda sp. n., from southeast China, Sichuan is described. A diagnostic comparison with Spilarctia bipunctata Daniel, 1943 and Spilarctia clava (Wileman, 1910) is provided. During recent years the Chinese Arctiini have been intensively collected and explored (Fang, 2000; Dubatolov, 2010; Kishida, 2015; and numerous other publications), so the discovery of a distinctive new species near Maoxian, North part of Sichuan Province, was most unexpected.
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: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D002681:China; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D009929:Organ Size