Belciades hoenei Kononenko, 1997

Behounek, Gottfried, Han, Hui-Lin & Kononenko, Vladimir, 2011, A review of the genus Belciades Kozhanchikov, 1950 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Pantheinae), with descriptions of two new species from China and Thailand. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution II, Zootaxa 3070, pp. 40-50 : 42-43

Belciades hoenei Kononenko, 1997

( Figs. 5, 6 , 19 , 24 )

Belciades hoenei Kononenko, 1997 , Tinea 15(2): 108, figs 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 18 (Type-localty: China, Prov. Yunan, Li-Kiang [Lijiang]).

Material examined. Type series, including holotype.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 6 ). Wingspan 36–43 mm. The species is close to niveola and koenigi . Externally it differs in the grassy-green tint of ground color of forewing with less greyish suffusion, and in uniform greyish brown hindwing. In ground plan of forewing hoenei is similar to niveola , differing in shape of basal band, round whitish orbicular stigma, absence of whitish surrounding of inner and outer lines and grey suffusion in cell between orbicular and reniform stigmata. The medial shade is more distinct than in niveola and koenigi , lower part of medial field not suffused with dark grey as in niveola , subterminal and terminal fields with less brown suffusion. In the male genitalia ( Fig. 19 ) the species differs from niveola mainly in size and shape of valva, sacculus, uncus and juxta as well as in shape and armature of vesica. The female genitalia ( Fig. 24 ) show more prominent differences in shape of bursa and ostial part.

Distribution and biology. China: North Yunnan, South Xizang (Tibet). The flight period is early June to July.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Belciades spp., imagines. 1, 2 – B. niveola (1 – Russian Far East, 2 – Korea); 3, 4 – B. koenigi, China (3 – holotype), 5, 6 – B. hoenei, China, (5 – holotype, 6 – paratype); 7, 8 – B. sugii (7 – Thailand, 8 – China).

FIGURES 17 – 20. Belciades spp., male genitalia. 17 – B. niveola, Russian Far East, genit. prep. 1641 ZFMK; 18 – B. koenigi, paratype, China, genit. prep. 1641 ZFMK; 19 – B. hoenei, paratype, genit. prep. 1639 ZFMK; 20 – B. sugii, Thailand, genit. prep. 7277 GB.

FIGURES 21 – 26. Belciades spp., male and female genitalia. 21 – B. cyana, male genitalia, paratype, China, HHL- 1964 - 1; 22 – B. cyanobrunnea, male genitalia, holotype, Thailand, genit. prep. 7410 GB; 23 – B. niveola female genitalia, Russian Far East, genit. prep. 1641 ZFMK; 24 – B. koenigi female genitalia 1160 ZFMK; 25 – B. hoenei female genitalia, genit. prep. 1652 ZFMK; 26 – B. cyanobrunnea, paratype, female genitalia, China, Jianxi / Fujian, 7408 GB.