Schistophleps flavia, Bucsek, 2012, Bucsek, 2012

Rayhan, Md Jahir, Bucsek, Karol & Jahan, Sayema, 2024, Schistophleps kendricki sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Bangladesh with an overview of the genus, Zootaxa 5481 (1), pp. 66-78 : 73

iii. flavia species group ( Figs 19–20 )

Diagnosis: Unlike the preceding two species groups, the ground color is yellow. Fore wings with distinct dark antemedial and postmedial broad bands, the latter being somewhat ‘3’ shaped. A narrow submarginal dark area formed by three dark patches that are often conjoined with the postmedial band being the whole distal half of wings completely dark. Two small black dots are present, one within the discal cell, and the other at the end of it, as like bipuncta species group. Hind wings unmarked, white, and semihyaline.

Figures

FIGURES 15–24: Schistophleps species, 15, Schistophleps albida (Walker, [1865]) (male), 16, Ditto (female), 17, Schistophleps bicolora Bethune-Baker, 1904 (HT, male), 18, Schistophleps bipuncta Hampson (male), 19, Schistophleps flavia Bucsek, 2014 (female), 20, Ditto (male), 21, Schistophleps fulvia Hampson, 22, Schistophleps lobifulvia Holloway, 2001 (female), 23, Schistophleps hyalina Bethune-Baker, 1908 (HT, male), 24, Schistophleps subtilis Holloway, 1979 (from Holloway, 1979)