Sarbanissa transiens ( Walker, 1856 )

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 : 361

Sarbanissa transiens ( Walker, 1856)

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Eusemia transiens Walker, 1856 , List Spec. Lep. Colln. Br. Mus. 7: 1588. TL: Indonesia (Java).

Eusemia aegoceroides Boisduval, 1874 , Rev. et magaz. zool.:106.

Seudyra dissimilis Swinhoe, 1890 . Trans. ent. Soc.: 174.

Seudyra transiens subalba: Mell 1936 (nec Leech), Stett. ent. Z. 97: 180, figs. 12–13.

Seudyra transiens: Hampson 1910 , Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 9: 437; Jordan 1912, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 11: 27, pl. 4d; Chen 1982, Icon. Het. Sin. 3: 389.

Sarbanissa transiens: Chen 1999: 132 ; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 142; Holloway 1989: 206; Park et al. 2007: 88.

Sarbanissa speciosa Orhant, 2015 , Bull. Soc. ent. Mulhouse. 71 (3): 51–53. syn. nov.

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Yunnan province, Lancang county, Puer city, altitude 899 m, 27-X-2017, leg. Zhen Zhou ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan about 46 mm. Forewing reddish brown with a white speckle outside the reniform stigma, reniform and orbicular stigma brownish black. Hindwing without discal spot, terminal band broad.

Diagnosis. S. transiens is characterized by the continuous, broad and darkish black terminal band from anal angle to costal margin of hindwing.

This species is similar to S. subalba , but the forewing with the area around orbicular stigma is black rather than greyish white and the hindwing with the terminal band broader in S. transiens than in S. subalba .

Distribution. China (Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan), Nepal, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo ( Holloway 1989; Chen 1999; Kononenko & Pinratana 2005; Park et al. 2007).

Remarks. S. speciosa Orhant falls within the individual variation of S. transiens thus it’s synonymized with it here.

Both Sugi (1993) and Kononenko & Pinratana (2013) treated S. dissimilis as a distinct species rather than as a synonym of S. transiens . We entrust Dr. Alberto Zilli to check the type of S. dissimilis in London , but it has not been dissected, and unfortunately the abdomen is in a very bad shape because of some severe damage likely caused by psocids in the past. We consider S. dissimilis as an individual variation within S. transiens , and we followed Chen (1982, 1999), so it’s synonymized with S. transiens here.

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 18–23. Male genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 18, S. flavida (Leech); 19, S. insocia Walker; 20, S. longipennis (Walker); 21, S. transiens (Walker); 22, S. subalba Leech; 23, S. mandarina (Leech).