Sarbanissa bala ( Moore, 1865 )

Wei, Fu-Hong, Kishida, Yasunori & Wang, Min, 2019, A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae), Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 354-370 : 357

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scientific name	Sarbanissa bala ( Moore, 1865 )
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Sarbanissa bala ( Moore, 1865) View in CoL

( Figs. 8 View FIGURES 1–8 , 24 View FIGIRES 24–29 , 35 View FIGIRES 30–36 )

Phaegorista bala Moore, 1865 , Proc. zool. Soc.: 795. TL: India (Darjeeling).

Zalissa bala: Hampson 1894 , Fn. Br. Ind. 2: 156.

Seudyra bala: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 436, pl. 146, fig. 11; Jordan 1912, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27; Chen 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 389.

Seudyra bala subsp. hilaris Jordan, 1912 , in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27.

Sarbanissa bala: Chen 1999: 133 View in CoL ; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 143.

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Daweishan Nature Reserve, Pingbian city, altitude 1600 m, 2-V-2018, leg. Si-yao Huang and Tian-tian Yu. 1 female, same label as the Yunnan specimen mentioned above ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 43 mm. Forewing brownish black, with white scales outside the reniform stigma, orbicular and reniform stigma black. Hindwing with terminal band broad, anal angle black, submedial area with a black, longitudinal stripe, discal spot small.

Diagnosis. This species can be characterized by the following characters: hindwing with the discal spot small, terminal band darkish black, continuous and broad, from costa to anal angle, submedial area with the longitudinal stripe is not obvious.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Xizang), India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand ( Chen 1999; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005).

References

Chen, Y. X. (1982) Iconographia Heterocerorum Sinicorum. III. Agaristidae. Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Science Press, Beijing, pp. 387 - 390.

Chen, Y. X. (1999) Lepidoptera. Noctuidae. Fauna sinica, (Insecta) 16. Science Press, Beijing, 1588 pp.

Hampson, G. F. (1894) Moths. Agaristidae. Zalissa. In: Blanford, W. T., The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 155 - 157. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 58657

Hampson, G. F. (1910) Catalogue of the Noctuidae Phalaenae in the British museum. Genus Seudyra. In: Hampson, G. F. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British museum. Vol. 9. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, pp. 429 - 440. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9243

Jordan, K. (1912) Noctuiform Phalaenae. In: Seitz, A. (Eds.), The Macrolepidoptera of the World: A systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. II. Division: The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. Vol. 11. Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes (Alfred Kernen), Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 496. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14991 3

Kononenko, V. S. & Pinratana, A. (2005) Moths of Thailand Vol. 3, Noctuidae. An illustrated catalogue of theNoctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand, Part 1. Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 261 pp.

Moore, F. (1865) On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1865, 795 - 796. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1865. tb 02432. x

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Sarbanissa spp.: 1, S. flavida (Leech), male, Sichuan (SCAU); 2, S. insocia Walker, male, Yunnan (SCAU); 3, S. albifascia (Walker), male, Hainan (SCAU); 4, S. longipennis (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 5, S. transiens (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 6, S. subalba Leech, male, Hainan (SCAU); 7, S. mandarina (Leech), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 8, S. bala (Moore), male, Yunnan (SCAU). Scale bar=1 cm

FIGIRES 24–29. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 24–28, male; 29, male and female. 24, S. bala (Moore); 25, S. subflava (Moore); 26, S. venusta (Leech); 27, S. yunnana (Mell); 28, S.cirrha Jordan (©Mr. Shipher Wu); 29, S. catacoloides (Walker) (from Holloway's “The Moths of Borneo” 1989).

FIGIRES 30–36. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 30–33, male; 34–36, female. 30, S. interposita Hampson; 31, S. assimilis Orhant; 32, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang; 33, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov.; 34, S. albifascia (Walker); 35, S. bala (Moore); 36, S. interposita Hampson.