Sarbanissa bala ( Moore, 1865 )

Wei, Fu-Hong, Kishida, Yasunori & Wang, Min, 2019, A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae), Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 354-370 : 357

Sarbanissa bala ( Moore, 1865)

( Figs. 8 , 24 , 35 )

Phaegorista bala Moore, 1865 , Proc. zool. Soc.: 795. TL: India (Darjeeling).

Zalissa bala: Hampson 1894 , Fn. Br. Ind. 2: 156.

Seudyra bala: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 436, pl. 146, fig. 11; Jordan 1912, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27; Chen 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 389.

Seudyra bala subsp. hilaris Jordan, 1912 , in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27.

Sarbanissa bala: Chen 1999: 133 ; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 143.

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Daweishan Nature Reserve, Pingbian city, altitude 1600 m, 2-V-2018, leg. Si-yao Huang and Tian-tian Yu. 1 female, same label as the Yunnan specimen mentioned above ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 43 mm. Forewing brownish black, with white scales outside the reniform stigma, orbicular and reniform stigma black. Hindwing with terminal band broad, anal angle black, submedial area with a black, longitudinal stripe, discal spot small.

Diagnosis. This species can be characterized by the following characters: hindwing with the discal spot small, terminal band darkish black, continuous and broad, from costa to anal angle, submedial area with the longitudinal stripe is not obvious.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Xizang), India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand ( Chen 1999; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005).

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Sarbanissa spp.: 1, S. flavida (Leech), male, Sichuan (SCAU); 2, S. insocia Walker, male, Yunnan (SCAU); 3, S. albifascia (Walker), male, Hainan (SCAU); 4, S. longipennis (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 5, S. transiens (Walker), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 6, S. subalba Leech, male, Hainan (SCAU); 7, S. mandarina (Leech), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 8, S. bala (Moore), male, Yunnan (SCAU). Scale bar=1 cm

FIGIRES 24–29. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 24–28, male; 29, male and female. 24, S. bala (Moore); 25, S. subflava (Moore); 26, S. venusta (Leech); 27, S. yunnana (Mell); 28, S.cirrha Jordan (©Mr. Shipher Wu); 29, S. catacoloides (Walker) (from Holloway's “The Moths of Borneo” 1989).

FIGIRES 30–36. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 30–33, male; 34–36, female. 30, S. interposita Hampson; 31, S. assimilis Orhant; 32, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang; 33, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov.; 34, S. albifascia (Walker); 35, S. bala (Moore); 36, S. interposita Hampson.