Antitrisuloides catocalina (Moore, 1882)

Behounek, Gottfried & Kononenko, Vladimir, 2011, A review of the genera Elydnodes Hampson, 1913 and Antitrisuloides Holloway, 1985 with description of two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution III, Zootaxa 3108, pp. 41-52 : 45-46

Antitrisuloides catocalina (Moore, 1882)

( Figs. 9, 10 , 19 , 23 )

Tambana catocalina Moore, 1882 , Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the Late Mr. W.S. Atkinson: 156, Pl. 5: 3, (Type-locality: India, West Bengal, Darjiling, Types: MNHU, Berlin). = Trisuloides polyphaenaria Warren, 1912 , Novitates Zooogicae, 19:3, (Type-locality: Indonesia, Java, Ratoe, Palaboehan, Holotype: female,BMNH, London)

= Trisuloides catocalina cyclica Berio, 1973 , Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 79: 158, (Holotype: male, [ Myanmar] Burma, Palaing, 1450 m, coll. Berio, MCSNM, Mailand).

References: Hampson, 1913: 346 ( Trisuloides ); Kobes, 1985: 21, Pl. 23, fig. 22; Chen 1982: 237, fig. 1728 ( Trisuloides ); Holloway 1985: 302, Pl. 8:3, fig. 203, male genitalia ( Antitrisuloides ); Poole, 1989: 978 ( Trisuloides ); Yoshimoto 1995: 69, Pl. 109:1 ( Antitrisuloides ), Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 136, Pl. 39, fig. 16 ( Antitrisuloides ).

Material examined. Photograph of type Trisuloides polyphaenaria : female, Palaboehan, Ratoe, Java, Wynkoopsbaai (H. Fruhstorfer)/ Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1929-1/ Trisuloides polyphaenaria Type female Warr.; 1 male, Thailand, Nakhon Ratchasima, Taplan NP, 520 m, 14˚22ʹ54ʹ N 101˚51ʹ89ʹ E, 5–10.v.2005, leg. T.Ihle (coll. AB); 1 female, Laos, Phu Soai Dao, 650 m, vi.1996, leg. Steike & Lehman, genit. prep. 7422GB (coll. AB); 1 male, Thailand, Tham Sakoen National Park, headquarter 19˚23ʹN 100˚38ʹE, 29–30.xi.2003, leg. Peregovits, Földvári & Kȍrösi (coll. GR); 1 female, Thailand, Yanae, 28 km W from Mae Suai, 24.xi.2003, leg. Peregovits, Földvári & Kȍrösi (coll. GR); 4 males, 3 females, Thailand, Kanchanaburi, Sri Sawad, 7.vi.2000 (AP); 1 male, Thailand, 30 km N Chiang Mai, Pa Pae Mts., 20–22.ix.2011, leg. V. Kononenko; 1 male, N Sumatra, vic. Saidar, 11.x.1989, leg. Dr. Diehl, genit. prep. 7701 (coll. GB).

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs. 9, 10 ). Wingspan: male 33–36 mm, female 34–35 mm. Head and thorax covered with greyish scales, abdomen yellowish-grey; forewing brown, with grey subapical suffusion and whitish subapical streak; wing pattern with dark brown subbasal field, distinct medial shadow, more strongly expressed in costal area, distinct, thin, bordered with whitish postmedial line, diffused subterminal line with two strong blackish dashes; orbicular small traceable, reniform distinct, surrounded with whitish suffusion; terminal line as row of small semilunar streaks; cilia brown; Hindwing yellow, with dark blackish terminal band and subanal dash; cilia greyish. Coremata absent. In male genitalia ( Fig. 19 ) uncus straight, somewhat extended apically, with small apical hook; tegument broad, almost equal to vinculum in length; juxta small, plate-like; valva rather wide basally, narrower mesially, with parallel margins, rounded apical from ventral side, bearing small apical hook, covered with strong setae in apical part; sacculus small; harpe transversal, small, not reach costal margin of valva. Aedeagus rather short, sclerotised apically, with dentate carina; vesica tubular, rather wide, with complex diverticulum in mid and apical extension bearing minute setae-like cornuti. In female genitalia ( Fig. 23 ) papillae anales quadrangular; apophyses posterior 2 times shorter than anterior ones; antrum very small, cup-like, with medial cut; ductus bursae relatively short and wide, membranous; corpus bursae elongate, with small lateral appendix.

Distribution ( Fig. 29 ). North India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, South West China, Vietnam, Laos, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali. Moths have been collected in May, June, September and October.

Taxonomic note. The species has been treated in the literature as a member of the genus Trisuloides ( Hampson 1913; Poole 1989), until it was removed to the genus Antitrisuloides by Holloway (1985). It was incorrectly placed in Acronictinae by Kononenko & Pinratana (2005).

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 14. Antitrisuloides spp., adults. 9 – A. catocalina, holotype of polyphaenaria, female, type, Indonesia (BMNH); 10 – A. catocalina, Thailand, male (AB); 11 – A. siamensis sp. n., male, holotype, genit. prep. 7396, Thailand (AB); 12 – A. siamensis sp. n., male, paratype, genit. prep. 7397, Thailand (AB); Thailand (AB); 13 – A. siamensis sp. n., male, paratype, Thailand (AB); 14 – A. siamensis sp. n., female, paratype, genit. prep. 7399, Laos (AB).

FIGURES 18 – 20. Elydnodes, abdomen; Antitrisuloides spp., male genitalia. 18 – E. griseata sp. n., holotype, abdomen; 19 – A. catocalina, Thailand, genit. prep. 7394 GB (GB); 20 – A. siamensis sp. n., paartype, Thailand, genit. prep. 7395 GB (AB).

FIGURES 21 – 24. Elydnodes and Antitrisuloides spp., female genitalia. 21 – E. ornata, Philippines, genit. prep. 7664 GB (GB); 22 – E. griseata sp. n., paratype, Thailand, genit prep. 2 - 090311 VK (AB); 23 – A. catocalina, Laos, genit. prep. 7422 GB (AB); 24 – A. siamensis sp. n., paratype, Thailand, genit. prep. 7399 GB (AB).

FIGURES 25 – 30. Elydnodes and Antitrisuloides spp., distribution maps. 25 – Distribution area of the genera Elydnodes and Antitrisuloides; 26 – E. variegata; 27 – E. ornata; 28 – E. griseata sp. n.; 29 – A. catocalina; 30 – A. siamensis sp. n.