The systematic status of both forms was not evident, usually they were considered as two species, viz. ochracea and nigrisigna (Wu, Fang, 2009), but large sympatric area of both forms, almost identical phenological periods, similar wing pattern, male and female genitalia cause establishing of synonymy of all associated specific names. The present paper devotes to revelation of the status of the mentioned forms. | HỘI NGHỊ KHOA HỌC TOÀN QUỐC VỀ SINH THÁI VÀ TÀI NGUYÊN SINH VẬT LẦN THỨ 4 NOTES ON THE SUBGENUS PENICILLONAROSA Strand, 1916 (LEPIDOPTERA, LIMACODIDAE) ALEXEY V. SOLOVYEV Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University TRAN THIEU DU Institute of Ecology and Biological Resource Penicillonarosa Strand, 1916 is a small subgenus of the genus Narosa Walker, 1855 ranging in Indo-Malaya region. It was erected by monotypy for the species Narosa (Penicillonarosa) penicillata Strand, 1916 and considered earlier that this subgenus is monotypical and includes only nigrisigna with the following synonyms: penicillata Strand, 1916, formosana Matsumura, 1931, ochracea Hering, 1931 (Solovyev & Witt, 2009), but two different forms can be recognized, the yellow one (ochracea) and the grey one (nigrisigna, = penicillata, = formosana). The systematic status of both forms was not evident, usually they were considered as two species, viz. ochracea and nigrisigna (Wu, Fang, 2009), but large sympatric area of both forms, almost identical phenological periods, similar wing pattern, male and female genitalia cause establishing of synonymy of all associated specific names. The present paper devotes to revelation of the status of the mentioned forms. I. MATERIAL AND METHODS The materials from the following collections are the basis for this study (with abbreviations given in the text): Museum Witt, Munich, Germany (MWM); collection of Alexey V. Solovyev, Ulyanovsk, Russia (CAS); Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom) (BMNH); Deutsches entomologisches Institut im Zalf, Müncheberg, Germany (DEI); Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (EIHU); Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany (ZMHB). The data on distribution of the taxa in China see Wu & Fang (2009). The material for DNA analysis was collected during our joint expeditions to Vietnam in 2008. The sequences were received from the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario in the network of the general project BOLD: Barcode of
