Agalope bieti

The Agalope bieti species-group Species included: A. basiflava (Moore, 1879b), A. bieti (Oberthür, 1886), A. dejeani Oberthür, 1893, A. lucia Oberthür, 1923. Diagnosis. See above in the diagnosis of the A. pica species-group. Remarks. Within the A. bieti species-group, A. bieti (Fig. 28) is different from its two Chinese congeners, A. dejeani and A. lucia by the posterior part of the antemedial and medial bands not bent inwards but straightly reaching the dorsum instead. The feature in fact, fits well with that of certain species in the A. pica species-group, e. g. A. haoi sp. n. In addition, the externally similar A. haoi sp. n. described above is a member of A. pica species-group without any doubt, so there is a possibility that A. bieti should also be assigned to A. pica species-group. However, this conclusion can only be asserted after examining the genitalia of A. bieti. Distribution. Northern India and Southwestern China (Fig. 68).
Published as part of Huang, Si-Yao, Zhu, Li-Juan, Chen, En-Yong, Xu, Yong-Qiang, Wang, Min, Fan, Xiao-Ling, Pan, Zhao-Hui & Espeland, Marianne, 2022, Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Agalope Walker from mainland China with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae), pp. 557-574 in Zootaxa 5165 (4) on pages 567-568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6854078
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