Baniana Walker, 1858

Lafontaine, Donald & Walsh, J., 2010, A review of the subfamily Anobinae with the description of a new species of Baniana Walker from North and Central America (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Anobinae), ZooKeys 39 (39), pp. 3-11 : 5-6

Baniana Walker, 1858

Type species. Baniana significans Walker, 1858 by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Adults. Males and females of similar size and pattern; forewing length 7–15 mm. Head – Labial palpus with third segment short and rounded, 0.20–0.25 × as long as second segment. Lower frons usually denuded of scales. Male antenna bipec- tinate; female antenna bead-like, appearing slightly biserrate dorsally because scales on shaft flare out anteriorly over base of flagellomeres. Head and prothoracic collar black, dark brown, or reddish brown, contrasting with brown or gray color of thorax. Thorax – Tibia without spiniform setae; tibia smoothly scaled with longer hair-like scales but without hair pencils. Forewing broad and triangular, apex slightly falcate; antemedial line with black lobe or enlargement near middle of outer side; postmedial line curved inward and upward to touch bottom of reniform spot; reniform spot reduced to two black dots, sometimes connected; orbicular spot, if present, a small black dot. Hindwing fuscous. Male genitalia – Upper part of tegumen enlarged into hood-like posterior projection; uncus elongate, with projecting flanges or processes. Valva with heavily sclerotized plates, flanges, or processes on costal and/or ventral margin of valve; central part of valva with lightly sclerotized translucent “window;” valve tapered from base to apex and arching downward; clasper vestigial, a sclerotized plate in middle of valve distal to sacculus. Aedeagus varies from short and stout to slender and curved; vesica with numerous spinulose diverticula. Female genitalia – Corpus bursae very long with narrow posterior 3/4 resembling a ductus bursae; ductus seminalis at posterior end of ductus bursae on short appendix bursae; posterior part of ductus bursae sclerotized or with longitudinal sclerotized ridges; ostium and ductus bursae sclerotized; ostial opening on anterior margin of abdominal segment 8 (A8). A8 lightly sclerotized except for two postvaginal sclerotized plates in ventral wall of A8. Anterior apophyses slightly shorter than A8; posterior apophyses slightly longer than A8. Anal papillae as long as lateral width, truncated posteriorly, covered with short setae.

Included species. Baniana firmalis (Guenée) , B. gobar Druce , B. haga Schaus , B. inaequalis Walker [= B. crucilla (Schaus) , syn. n.], B. minor Lafontaine & Walsh , sp. n., B. significans Walker , and B. triangulifera Dognin.