Stictane Hampson, 1900

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Cha, Yeong-Bin, Černý, Karel, Kwon, Hyung-Wook & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2022, Review of the genus Stictane Hampson (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) in Thailand with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5138 (4), pp. 481-491 : 482-483

Genus Stictane Hampson, 1900

Stictane Hampson, 1900 , Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 258. TS: Pitane fractilinea Snellen, 1880 . TL: Sumatra.

Species of the genus can be recognized by the following characters: the gray ground color of forewing with a dark medial band, one or several dark discal spots, and subbasal and postdiscal series of dark spots. The forewing vein R4 and R5 are stalked for 1/2 length of R4; the R3 and R4+5 are stalked about 1/4 length of R3 ( Fig 1 ); the hindwing veins Rs and M1 are stalked for the half length of M1, from the upper part of the discal cell ( Fig 1 ). In the male genitalia, the uncus is slender and long or short; the valva is narrow, with a saccular process; and the aedeagus vesica bears cornuti. In the female genitalia, the corpus bursae is scobinate, with long spines ( Holloway 2001).

Distribution. India ( Kirti & Singh 2015), Sri Lanka ( Hampson 1900), China ( Fang 2000), Taiwan ( Chen et al. 2018), Laos ( Bucsek 2020; Bayarsaikhan et al. 2021), Thailand ( Černý & Pinratana 2009), Cambodia ( Bayarsaikhan & Bae 2015; Bae et al. 2016; Bayarsaikhan et al. 2019), Vietnam ( Bayarsaikhan & Bae 2015, 2021; Bayarsaikhan et al. 2019), Indonesia ( Snellen 1879, van Eecke 1927, Spitsyn & Bolotov 2020), Borneo ( Holloway 2001), Peninsular Malaysia ( Bucsek 2012, 2014); Korea ( Bayarsaikhan et al. 2020), Japan ( Kishida 2011).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Wing venation of Stictane fractilinea (female, INU˗10364T) from Thailand.