Sarbanissa subflava ( Moore, 1877 )

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 : 360-361

Sarbanissa subflava ( Moore, 1877)

( Figs. 9 , 25 )

Seudyra subflava Moore, 1877 , Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 4, 20: 85. TL: China (Zhejiang).

Zalissa jankowskii Alpheraky, 1897 , Alph., Rom. sur Lep. 9: 151.

Zalisssa subflava: Leech 1899 , Trans. ent. Soc. 3: 213; Jordan 1914, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 3: 7, pl. le. Seudyra subflava: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 430; Chen, 1982, Icon. Her. Sin. 3: 389.

Seudyra subflava subsp. japonica Bytinski-Salz, 1939 , Ent. Rec. & Jour, of Var.: 120.

Sarbanissa subflava: Inoue 1982 , Moths Jap. 1: 935.

Sarbanissa subflava: Chen 1999: 133 .

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Zhejiang province, Daishan county, Zhoushan city, 5-VIII-2016, leg. Shu-qin Ji and Min Wang. 1 male. CHINA, Zhejiang province, Changgang mountain, Zhoushan city, 3-VIII-2016, leg. Shuqin Ji and Min Wang. 1 male. CHINA, Guizhou province, Fodingshan Nature Reserve, Shiqian county, Tongren city, altitude 617 m, 2-V-2018, leg. Fu-hong Wei ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 45 mm. Forewing purplish brown, orbicular stigma small, reniform stigma big, both of them purplish brown with greyish yellow edge. Hindwing with a brownish yellow speckle at anal angle, terminal band brownish black, discal spot small and obvious.

Diagnosis. S. subflava can be separated from the other species by the following characters: forewing apex acute, anterior part outwardly protruding; hindwing with a yellow speckle before anal angle, terminal band brownish black, discal spot small.

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou), Japan, North Korea, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula ( Chen 1999).

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).