Avitta Walker, 1858

Han, Hee & Kim, Sora, 2025, A new subspecies of Avitta fasciosa Moore, 1882 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) from Korea, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 176317-e 176317 : e176317-

Avitta Walker, 1858

Avitta Walker 1858 , type species: Avitta subsignans Walker 1858 .

Oroba Walker (1863) .

Diagnosis

This genus can be defined by the following characteristics: in habitus, fore-wings with several parallel fasciae which are diffused and irregular; reniform bilobed with paler centre; in male genitalia, costa of valva with spur at base; in female genitalia, corpus bursae spherical, finely scobinated entirely and those thicker in patches near base; bearing sclerotised plate between ovipositor lobes ( Holloway 1984).

Notes

In Korea, only Avitta puncta Wileman was reported by Choi (2010). He treated the genus Asta Walker as one of the synonyms of Avitta . It seems that he followed the classification of Poole (1989). However, after that, Holloway (2005) treated it as the genus Asta , based on the characteristics of habitus and male genitalia. Therefore, we re-examined it and suggest that the position of A. puncta should be treated as Asta . According to Holloway (2005), he transferred Avitta puncta to Asta , based on the features of its fore-wing facies and male genitalia. He maintained this taxonomic status in his later checklist of the moths of Borneo ( Holloway 2011). Consequently, Avitta fasciosa koreana is the only member of Avitta in Korea.