Sarbanissa flavida ( Leech, 1890 )

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 : 358

Sarbanissa flavida ( Leech, 1890)

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Seudyra flavida Leech, 1890 , Entomologist 23: 110. TL: China (Chang Yang).

Zalissa flavida: Leech 1899 , Trans. ent. Soc. 3: 212; Jordan 1914, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 3: 7, pl, 1e.

Seudyra flavida: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 432, pl. 146, fig. 9; Chen 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 388.

Sarbanissa flavida: Chen 1999: 130 .

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Sichuan province, Gongga county, Shannan city, 2-VIII-2003, leg. Min Wang ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 56 mm. Forewing brownish grey, covered densely with brown dots, the area outside the media and vein 2 is darkish purple and with a blackish purple speckle at apex, orbicular and reniform stigma purplish black with white edge. Hindwing apricot, with discal spot almost invisible and without black band.

Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the almost invisible discal spot of hindwing and absence of black band.

Distribution. China (Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang) ( Chen 1999).

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 18–23. Male genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 18, S. flavida (Leech); 19, S. insocia Walker; 20, S. longipennis (Walker); 21, S. transiens (Walker); 22, S. subalba Leech; 23, S. mandarina (Leech).