Anabelcia staudingeri ( Leech, 1900 ) Behounek & V.S.Kononenko, 2012

Behounek, G. & V. S. Kononenko, 2012, A revision of the “ Belciana ” kala Prout, 1924 species group with description of a new genus and two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae) from East Asia. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution VI, Zootaxa 3590, pp. 1-15 : 7-14

Anabelcia staudingeri ( Leech, 1900) , comb. n.

( Figs 15, 16, 28, 34)

Polydesma staudingeri Leech, 1900 . Transactions of the Entomological Society of London , 1900: 551. Holotype: female, North Korea: Wonsan [Gensan], BMNH, London.

Synonymy: Daseochaeta trinubila Draudt, 1937 . Entomologische Rundschau 54:374, Pl. 4:3a. (Syntypes: China, Chekiang , Hunan, ZFMK, Bonn.

References: Warren (in Seitz 1909–1914): 368 ( Polydesma ); Draudt 1937:374, Pl. 4:3a ( Daseochaeta trinubila ); Kozhanchikov 1950: 431 ( Belciana ); Poole 1989:160 ( Belciana ); Kononenko 1990: 13 ( Belciana ); 2003: 276, male genit. figs 163: 1, 2 ( Belciana ); 2005: 133 ( Belciana ); 2010: 179, Pl. 22: 8, male gen. 110: 4, female gen. 181: 6 ( Belciana ); Kononenko et al. 1998: 180, fig. 463 ( Belciana ); Chen 1982: 240, fig. 1744 ( Moma alpium Osbeck , misidentification); 1999: 1125, Pl. 59: 20, male genit. 646 ( Belciana ); Kononenko & Han 2007: 86, male genit. 81: 5, female genit. 231: 5 ( Belciana ).

Material examined. China: 1 male 1 female, “ Linping , Pr. Kwangtung ”, 16.iv.1924, 18.vii.1923 (H. Höne); 1 female, “Mokanshan, prov. Chekiang, 23.vii. 1923 (H. Höne) ; 1 male, Kuatun, Fukien (2300m) 27˚40’N 117˚40’E 1.vi.1938 (leg. J. Klapperich ( ZFMK); 2 males, 1 female, China, Jiangxi-Fujian border Wuy Shan 50 km SE from Yingtan 1600 m, 50˚55’N 54˚21’E, vi, v., vi.2002 (leg. Siniaev) (coll. Stumpf / Becher / genit. prep. 7275GB, 7376GB (GB); 1 male, South Korea, genit. Prep. 645 HL ( CIS); 1 female, North Korea, genit. Prep. 2165VK ( ZFMK); 1 male, Russia Far East, Primorye terr., Partizanskiy Reg., Vladimiro-Aleksandrovskoe (leg. Frolov S.), 4.vii.2009 ( ABF).

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs 15, 16). Wingspan 32–40 mm. The species can be easily separated from its congeners by clear bluish background of forewing, distinct forewing pattern formed by subbasal, subterminal and tornal brown triangular patches, distinct black dentate lines in medial field, white rounded orbicular and B-like reniform and by fuscous yellowish grey hindwing, darker in terminal part. Male genitalia ( Fig. 28): uncus thin, long, curved and pointed apically; juxta small triangular with drop-like central bar; sacculus with large, broad cow horn-like extension directed basally; valva broader medially, constricted and rounded apically; apical saccular extension substituted by deep fold and sclerotised plate. Aedeagus curved, carina without spines; vesica projecting ventrally, tubular, with two subbasal and one medial diverticula, last one covered with dense tiny setae. Female genitalia ( Fig. 34): A. staudingeri differs from the allied species by its longer and thinner, apically splitted antrum and membranous ductus bursae.

Distribution. (Map 40). Russia Far East (South Primorye), Korea, China.

Note. The record of this species from the Russian Far East has long been referred as doubtful ( Kononenko 1990, 2005, 2010). The examination of new material (male from Primorye terr, Partizanskiy Reg., Vladimiro- Aleksandrovskoe) confirms the occurrence of this species in Russia.