Hermonassa pallidula (Leech, 1900)

Gao, Biao, Han, Hui-Lin, Kononenko, Vladimir S. & Pan, Zhao-Hui, 2023, Five new species of the genus Hermonassa Walker, 1865 from Xizang Autonomous Region, China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae), ZooKeys 1179, pp. 35-61 : 35

Hermonassa pallidula (Leech, 1900)

Figs 45 , 56

Graphiphora pallidula Leech, 1900, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1900: 39; Hampson 1903: 362, pl. 68, fig. 24; Jordan and Warren 1909-1914: 57, pl. 15k; Corti and Draudt 1931-1938: 62, fig. 62, pl. 8d; Kozhanchikov 1937: 266; Boursin 1967: pl. 4: 6; Poole 1989: 503; Chen 1982: 2049; Chen et al. 1991: 93, pl. 4:26, ♂ genit. fig. 54; Krusek and Behounek 1996a: pl. 51, fig. 4; 1996b: pl. 79: 4, pl. 80, fig. 5.

Type material.

Syntypes: 1♂, 2♀, "W China, Omei-shan" [China, Prov. Sichuan], deposited in NHM ( Beccaloni et al. 2003), not examined.

Other material examined.

2 ♂, specimens, identified by Ch. Boursin, "Likiang, ca 4000 m, Nord Yuennan, 21 July 1935, H. Hӧne” /. Deposited in the coll. ZFMK.

Distribution and biology.

The species is known from its type locality, Omeishan, Sichuan Prov., and from Likiang, Yunnan Prov., southwest China; the male genitalia were illustrated by Boursin (1967). The specimens from Likiang were collected 21 July 1935 at an altitude 4000 m.

Figures

Figures 43 - 50. Hermonassa spp., adults, males 43 H. linzhiensis sp. nov., ♂, holotype 44 Ditto, ♀, paratype 45 H. pallidula (ZFMK) 46 H. hoenei, holotype (ZFMK) 47 H. ellenae, holotype (ZFMK) 48 H. ellenae tapaishana, holotype (ZFMK) 49 H. ellenae robusta, authentic specimen (ZSM) 50 H. oleographa.

Figures 51 - 56. Hermonassa spp., male genitalia 51 H. albimacula sp. nov., paratype, China, genit. prep. GB- 318 - 1 52 H. legraini, Taiwan (after Ronkay et al. 2013) 53 H. yixincheni, holotype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 1009 - 1 54 H. dictyota, holotype, China, (ZFMK) 55 H. linzhiensis sp. nov., holotype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 5278 - 1 56 H. pallidula, China (after Boursin 1967).