This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Saldaitis, Aidas, Lien, Vu Van, Junnila, Amy, Ihle, Siegfried, Sulak, Harald, Yakovlev, Roman V., Volkova, Julia S., Müller, Günter C., Revay, Edita E., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Prozorov, Alexey M. (2025): Two new mainland sister species for the Taiwanese Bharetta owadai (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Argudini). Zootaxa 5633 (3): 470-484, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.3

Abstract

Bharetta owadai Kishida, 1986, was considered a widespread Indomalayan species occurring in Taiwan (type-locality), mainland China and Vietnam. Study of the genitalia of adults and barcoding showed that the taxon is a group of sister species. Allopatric Taiwanese and mainland populations have a slight difference in male genitalia and a distinct genetic distance of 3.26–4.56 %, which allowed description of the mainland population as a new species, Bharetta sarah sp. nov. known from Guanxi (type-locality) and Jianxi Provinces in China, and northern Vietnam. The second new species, Bharetta hanne sp. nov., has distinct male genitalia and is found on Fansipan Mountain (type-locality) and a nearby mountain ridge. Adults, their genitalia, distribution map, and phylogenetic tree are illustrated.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/99e4aca5-89b0-4c71-89fe-05a4da97a462
Homepage: https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FFED3F1CA750FFAE4B0BFFCBD44FFFD3
Citation: Saldaitis A, Lien V V, Junnila A, Ihle S, Sulak H, Yakovlev R V, Volkova J S, Müller G C, Revay E E, Prozorova T A, Prozorov A M, plazi (2025). Two new mainland sister species for the Taiwanese Bharetta owadai (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Argudini). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c75nuj accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-02-12.