Tambana bella ( Mell, 1935 )

Behounek, G., Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2015, A revision of the genus Ta mb ana Moore, 1882 with description of eight new species and one subspecies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution XIII, Zootaxa 4048 (3), pp. 301-351 : 306-307

Tambana bella ( Mell, 1935)

( Figs 5–8 , 91 , 120 )

Trisuloides bella Mell, 1935 , Mitteilungen der Deutsche Entomologischen Gesellschaft 6: 38. Type-locality: China, Chekiang, Tien-mu-shan. Lectotype: male, here designated, coll. NKMB.

Synonymy: Trisuloides chekiana Draudt, 1937 , Entomologische Rundschau, 54: 400, Pl. 4: 2g. Type-locality: China, Chekiang, W Thien-mu-shan. Syntypes: coll. ZFMK.

Trisulipsa quadrata Berio, 1973 , Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 79:160, fig. 52. Type-locality: Myanmar, Kambaiti. Holotype: male, coll. NHRM. (Type-species of Trisulipsa ).

References. Draudt 1937: 400, Pl. 4: 2g ( Trisuloides ); 1950: 11 ( Trisuloides ); Berio 1973: 160, fig. 52 ( Trisulipsa quadrata ); Chen 1999: 61, Pl. 1:11 ( Trisuloides ); Speidel & Kononenko 1998: 552, Pl. T:11, 12, male genitalia 29 ( Tambana ).

Material examined. Types. Lectotype of Trisuloides bella (designated herein) male, indicated as “ Typus ”, “Kuling b. Kiukiang Prov. Kiangsi vii.1920, H. H ӧne / Typus; paralectotypes: 2 males, 1 female indicated as “ Paratypus ”, “West-Tien-mu-Shan, 1600 m, Pr. Chekiang” 24, 26, 27.vii.1932, H. H ӧne (lectotype and paralectotypes, coll. ZFMK); Syntypes of Trisuloides chekiana : 11 males, 1 female “West Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang”, 1. 2. 4.viii, 19.viii.1932, H. H ӧne, coll. ZFMK. Holotype and paratypes of Trisulipsa quadrata , holotype: male “N. E. Burma, Kambaiti, 2000 m 12–17/ 6.1934 Malaise / Trisulipsa quadrata Berio. Typ. male Berio det. / Rijksmuseum Stockholm/ coll. NHRM. Other material examined. CHINA: 1 female, Prov. Jiangxi, Wuyi Shan, Xipiahe, 1500 m, 27°55′N, 117°20′E, Sinyaev V. & Team, leg., 1–31.viii.2005, slide GB12117 female, coll. PG; 1 female, Prov. Sichuan, Siguilang Shan, Volong Reserve, 31°09′N, 103°209′E, Sinyaev V. & Team, leg., 1–31.viii.2005, slide GB12117, female, coll. PG; 1 male, Prov. Shaanxi, Lueyang 29.v–2.vi.2005 F. Kucera leg., coll. GR; 2 males, Prov. Guangdong, Nanling nat. park, 22.vi.2003, Wang Min leg., coll. NEFU; VIETNAM: 1 male, Prov. Lao Cai, Tonkin, 1500–1800 m, Chapa (Sek. Wald/Kulturland), 22°20′N, 103°40′E, Siniaev V. leg., 10.vi–6.vii.1994, coll. GB/ ZSM; 1 male, Prov. Lao Cai, 1900 m, Fan-si-pan Mts, 14 km NW Sa Pa, 103°46. 06′E, 22°20. 9′N, 29–39. viii.1998, leg. A. Kun, slide RL7368, det L. Ronkay 2001, coll. HMNH.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs 5–8 ). Wingspan 48–51 mm. Antennae of male serrate. The species can be easily recognized by bronze-brownish thorax, and elements of wing pattern in medial and subterminal fields; by contrast black ante- and postmedial lines, broad diffused subterminal line and by contrast white apical and basal spots in reniform and quadrangular white spot behind reniform to postmedial line. Hindwing yellow, with broad blackishbrown terminal band, sometimes with blackish dusting in basal area. No one species of Tambana except T. laura hawing similar type of wing pattern similar to T. bella , but T. laura differs by smaller size, more distinct elements of wing pattern, more expressed yellowish-white transversal lines and bordering of stigmata, by reddish, broken subterminal field with well-expressed rounded tornal spot.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 91 ). The armature of male genitalia somewhat resembling those of T. albiplaga , but differs by shorter valva, shorter and more curved harpe, much longer saccus and thinner aedeagus with unarmed vesica and patch of spines on carina. Uncus short, broad narrower and rounded apically; tegumen twice higher than vinculum, bearing prominent penicular extensions; vinculum very large, V-shaped, with saccus; juxta shield-like, broad, with rounded edges; valva relatively short, broad basally, curved and constricted apically, bearing a patch of strong setae on the tip; sacculus large, harpe relatively short, strong, curved. Aedeagus long, rather thin, narrower apically with carina bearing a patch of strong spines; vesica tubular, without cornuti.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 120 ). The female genitalia of T. bella differ from other species by unusually extended shape ductus bursae. Ovipositor quadrangular, papillae anales moderate broad; antrum triangular, shallow, weakly sclerotised; ductus bursae moderate in length, broad, triangular, much extended medially, sclerotised and ribbed; corpus bursae elongated, membranous, with lateral extension in caudal part.

Distribution and bionomy. China (Provs Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangdong), Myanmar, North Vietnam. The species occurs in the montane forest at elevation 1500–2000 m. Moths fly in June, July and August.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Tambana spp., adults. 1. T. albiplaga, male, lectotype, N India (NHM); 2. T. albiplaga, female, Thailand (AB / ZSM); 3. T. arctoides, male, holotype, North Vietnam, slide VK 1695 (ZFMK); 4. T. arctoides, female, Myanmar (AB / ZSM); 5. T. bella, male, lectotype, China, Guanxi (ZFMK); 6. T. bella, male, paralectotype of T. chekiana, China, Zhejiang (ZFMK); 7. T. bella, male, holotype of T. quadrata, Myanmar (NHRM); 8. T. bella, male, China, Guangdong, slide HHL- 1502 - 1 (NEFU).

FIGURES 89 – 91. Tambana spp., male genitalia. 89. T. albiplaga, North Vietnam, slide WS 377 (WS); 90. T. arctoides, holotype, North Vietnam slide VK 1656 (ZFMK); 91. T. bella, China, Guangdong, slide HHL- 1502 - 1 (NEFU).

FIGURES 118 – 123. Tambana spp., female genitalia. 118. T. albiplaga, North Vietnam, slide GB 8254 (GB / ZSM); 119. T. arctoides, Myanmar, slide GB 12161 (AB); 120. T. bella, China, Yunnan, slide GB 12117 (PGM); 121. T. fansipana sp. n., holotype, North Vietnam, slide GB 7402 (GB / ZSM); 122. T. burmana, China, Sichuan, slide GB 12122 (PGM); 123. T. naumanni, paratype, China, Guangdong, WS 412 (ZFMK).