Hermonassa anthracina Boursin, 1967

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 anthracina Boursin, 1967

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Hermonassa anthracina Boursin, 1967, Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 52: 26, pl. 1, fig. 4; Poole 1989: 502; Chen et al. 1991: 92, pl. 4, fig. 8, genit. fig. 53, male; Krusek and Behounek 1996a, pl. 50, fig. 8; 1996b: pl. 80, fig. 1; Kovács et al. 2018: 298, pl. 1, figs 1-4, genit. figs 1, 2.

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, [China] yellow label: Li-Kiang, ca 4000 m, Prov. North Yuennan, 27.7.1935, H. Hӧne /red label Holotypus/ white label Hermonassa anthracina Brsn. ♂ Boursin det./. Deposited in ZFMK, Bonn, Germany, examined.

Other material examined.

China, 2 ♀, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City, Lulang town , Mt. Sejila , 3650 m, 22 Aug. 2014, H.L. Han leg., genit. prep. GB-26-2, GB-197-2 ; 1 ♀, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City, Mt. Sejila , 4713 m, 12-13 Aug. 2014, H.L. Han leg., genit. prep. GB-198-2 ; 1 ♂, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City, Mt. Sejila , 3675 m, 30-31 July 2015, H.L. Han leg., genit. prep. hhl-3490-1 ; 1 ♂, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City, Lulang town , 5 Aug. 2015, H.L. Han leg., genit. prep. GB-199-1 ; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Prov. Qinghai, Maixiu nursery, 14 July 2020, H.L. Han & J. Wu leg., genit. prep. hhl-4741-1, hhl-4742-2 (coll. NEFU) .

Distribution and biology.

Hermonassa anthracina is known in China from the provinces of Qinghai, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Aut. Reg. Xizang in southwest China. Adults occur in the rocky slope meadows in coniferous forest at altitudes of 2000-4700 m. The flight period is between mid-July and mid-August.

Remarks.

Boursin (1967) listed numerous paratypes collected in Nepal (coll. ZSM), south Tibet, and north India (coll NHM) in the description of H. anthracina ; however. Kovács et al. (2018) did not refer to the material of H. anthracina from Nepal, but they listed numerous specimens of this species from China. They noted that "the type series [of H. anthracina in Boursin’s (1967) description] is mixed, the paratypes from Nepal and northern India representing in fact the southern Himalayan sister species H. kalamantra sp. nov." The record of H. anthracina from Nepal ( Sugi 1995) belongs to H. nigricans sp. nov. (see above). Therefore, taking in the account the presence of three externally similar species in Tibetan-Himalayan subregion the question about the presence of H. anthracina in Nepal and north India remains open.

Figures

Figures 1 - 10. Hermonassa spp., adults 1 H. nigricans sp. nov., ♂, holotype, China 2 Ditto, ♀, paratype 3 H. anthracina, ♂, holotype, China (ZFMK) 4 H. anthracina, ♀, China 5 H. kalamantra, ♂, holotype, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 6 H. kalamantra, ♂, China 7 H. conusa sp. nov., ♂, holotype, China 8 Ditto, ♀, paratype, China 9 H. renifera, ♂, holotype, China (NACR) 10 H. shizukoae, ♂, holotype, India (NIAES).

Figures 11 - 18. Hermonassa spp., male genitalia 11 H. nigricans sp. nov., holotype, China, genit. prep. GB- 101 - 1 12 H. nigricans sp. nov., Nepal (referred as H. anthracina, after Sugi, 1995) 13 H. anthracina, paratype, China (ZFMK); 14 H. anthracina, China (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 15 H. anthracina, China, genit. prep. hhl- 3490 - 1 16 H. kalamantra, paratype, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 17 H. kalamantra, China, genit. prep. hhl- 3489 - 1 18 H. kalamantra, China, genit. prep. hhl- 3488 - 1.

Figures 19 - 27. Hermonassa spp., male (19 - 22) and female (23 - 27) genitalia 19 H. conusa sp. nov., holotype, genit. prep. hhl- 3492 - 1 20 H. renifera, paratype (after Chen 1991) 21 H. shizukoae, holotype, India (after Sugi 1995) 22 H. shizukoae, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 23 H. nigricans, paratype, genit. prep. hhl- 3493 - 2 24 H. anthracina, China, (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 25 H. kalamantra, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 26 H. conusa sp. nov., paratype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 3491 - 2 27 H. shizukoae, paratype, India (after Sugi 1995).