Sarbanissa albifascia ( Walker, 1865 )

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 : 356

Sarbanissa albifascia ( Walker, 1865)

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Catocala albifascia Walker, 1865 , List Spec. Lep. Colln Br. Mus. 33: 933. TL: India.

Zalissa albifascia: Hampson 1894 . Fn. Br. Ind. 2: 157; Leech 1899, Trans. ent. Soc. 3: 214; Jordan 1914, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 3: 8, pl. 1f.

Seudyra albifascia: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 439; Jordan 1912, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 26; Chen, 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 390.

Sarbanissa albifascia: Chen 1999: 131 ; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 143; Park et al. 2007: 88.

Material examined. 1 female. CHINA, Hainan province, Yinggeling Nature Reserve , 20-V-2005, leg. Min Wang. 1 female. CHINA, Hainan province, Jianfengling Nature Reserve , 9-V-2005, leg. Min Wang and Liu-sheng Chen ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 57 mm. Forewing darkish brown with a little off white, forewing brownish grey with a big white speckle, reniform and orbicular stigma obscure. Hindwing apricot with a white spot at apex, terminal band black and broad, without discal spot.

Diagnosis. S. albifascia can be separated from other Sarbanissa species by the following characters: forewing with a big and white speckle, reniform and orbicular stigma vaguely invisible; hindwing with terminal band continuous, apex relatively wide with a small white spot.

Distribution. China (Neimenggu, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Guangdong, Hainan), India, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, ( Chen 1999; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005; Park et al.2007; Kirti et al. 2014).

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Sarbanissa spp.: 1, S. flavida (Leech), male, Sichuan (SCAU); 2, S. insocia Walker, male, Yunnan (SCAU); 3, S. albifascia (Walker), male, Hainan (SCAU); 4, S. longipennis (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 5, S. transiens (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 6, S. subalba Leech, male, Hainan (SCAU); 7, S. mandarina (Leech), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 8, S. bala (Moore), male, Yunnan (SCAU). Scale bar=1 cm

FIGIRES 30–36. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 30–33, male; 34–36, female. 30, S. interposita Hampson; 31, S. assimilis Orhant; 32, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang; 33, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov.; 34, S. albifascia (Walker); 35, S. bala (Moore); 36, S. interposita Hampson.