Sarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, 2018

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 : 358

Sarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, 2018

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Sarbanissa gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, 2018 , Tinea 24 (3): 152–155. TL: China (Yunnan).

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Drung-Nu Autonomous county of Gongshan, Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Nujiang , 21-VII-2006, leg. Xiao-ling Fan and Min Wang ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan 57 mm. Forewing black, reniform and orbicular stigma brownish black with white edge. Hindwing with subterminal band in zigzag, discal spot obscure.

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Sarbanissa species by the following combination of characters: forewing with apical and inner margin area dark black; hindwing with discal spot almost invisible, subterminal band continuous and narrow from costa to anal angle, with the inner margin and outer margin zigzagging.

Distribution. China (Yunnan) ( Kishida, Eda & Wang 2018).

Figures

FIGURES 9–17. Sarbanissa spp.: 9, S. subflava (Moore), male, Zhejiang (SCAU); 10, S. venusta (Leech), male, Sichuan (SCAU); 11, S. assimilis Orhant, male, Guangxi (SCAU); 12, S. yunnana (Mell), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 13, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov., male, Yunnan (SCAU); 14, S.cirrha Jordan, male, Taiwan (photograph by Mr. Shipher Wu); 15, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, male, Yunnan (SCAU); 16, S. catacoloides (Walker) (from Holloway's “The Moths of Borneo” 1989); 17, S. interposita Hampson, male, Sichuan (SCAU). Scale bar=1 cm.

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.