Sarbanissa cirrha Jordan , 1912

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 cirrha Jordan, 1912

( Figs. 14 , 28 )

Seudyra cirrha Jordan, 1912 . Gross-Schmett. Erde. 1 1: 27. TL: China (Taiwan).

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Taiwan, Sun Link Sea, Nantou county , altitude 1721 m, 9-VIII-2013, leg. Hsieh, C. B. (Taiwan).

Identification notes. Wingspan 41 mm. Forewing reddish brown, orbicular and reniform stigma brownish black with white edge. Hindwing with discal spot obscure and terminal band discontinuous with the inner edge zigzagging, anal angle with a big separated speckle.

Diagnosis. S. cirrha is similar to S. venusta (Leech) , but can be distinguished from the latter by the following characters: in S. cirrha forewing reddish brown rather than reddish purple in S. venusta ; in S. cirrha hindwing with discal spot obscure; in male genitalia, in S. cirrha valva with apex more acute, saccular process curved inwards, longer and thinner than in S. venusta .

Distribution. China (Taiwan) ( Jordan 1912).

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 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).