Sarbanissa longipennis ( 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 : 359-360

Sarbanissa longipennis ( Walker, 1865)

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Catocala longipennis Walker, 1865 , List Spec. Lep. Colln Br. Mus. 33: 934. TL: Bengal.

Seudyra longipennis: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 432, text fig. 207; Jordan 1912, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27. pl. 4d; Chen 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 389; Chen 1993, Ins. Hengduan Mts. 3: 1033.

Sarbanissa longipennis: Chen 1999: 131 ; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 143.

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Baihualing village, Baoshan city, altitude 1100 m, 25-VIII- 2018, leg. Si-yao Huang ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 52 mm. Forewing greyish black, reniform and orbicular stigma relatively small, apical and inner margin area black. Hindwing with discal spot almost invisible, terminal band broad and long and the edge zigzag, anal angle yellow.

Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by the following characters: forewing with apical and inner margin area dark black; hindwing with discal spot almost invisible, terminal band continuous, broad and dark black, with zigzagged inner edge, anal angle yellow.

Distribution. China (Yunnan), India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam ( Chen 1999; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005; 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 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).