Abstract
A new species of clearwing moth, Pyrophleps ellawi Skowron Volponi, sp. n., is described from Peninsular Malaysia. Information on the habitat, time and conditions of occurrence, flight and mud-puddling behaviour, functional morphology, and DNA barcode are also provided. Photographs and a supplementary video from the wild demonstrate the postures and behaviour of this species of Pyrophleps, whose remaining members were described only on the basis of pinned specimens. This is the first record of this genus in Peninsular Malaysia.
Highlights
Until now the genus Pyrophleps Arita & Gorbunov, 2000 comprised seven species
Pyrophleps ellawi is associated with river banks in primary rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia
As well as the fact that Le Cerf (1912) collected P. haematochrodes near a river in Vietnam, it is possible that puddling on river banks is a typical behaviour of representatives of this genus, and perhaps of other Oriental Sesiidae
Summary
Until now the genus Pyrophleps Arita & Gorbunov, 2000 comprised seven species. Three were described more than one hundred years ago, namely Adixoa cruentata Swinhoe, 1896, Aegeria ruficrista Rothschild, 1912 and Aschistophleps haematochrodes Le Cerf, 1912. Revised by Arita and Gorbunov (2000), they were transferred to the genus Pyrophleps.
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