A review of the genus Sarbanissa Walker, 1865 in China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae)
Author
Wei, Fu-Hong
Author
Kishida, Yasunori
Author
Wang, Min
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-30
4648
2
354
370
journal article
25325
10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.9
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Sarbanissa
Walker, 1865
Sarbanissa
Walker, 1865
,
List Spec. Lep. Colln Br. Mus
. 33: 746.
Type
species:
Sarbanissa insocia
Walker.
Seudyra
Stretch, 1875
,
Cist. ent
. 2: 19.
Type
species:
Sarbanissa transiens
Walker.
Redescription
. Adult. Body smooth and slender.
Head
. Proboscis short, rather stout; labial palpus ascending obliquely, the second segment of labial palpus approximately reaches the middle part of the frons; frontal tubercle truncated with the edge of uplift; compound eye big, rather round; antennae filiform, in male with cilia.
Thorax
with bristle and trichode scales, without tufts. Forewing slightly rounded at the apex with a little exterior convex; ground color usually darkish grey, with white speckles, reniform and orbicular stigma large, which is a characteristic feature for noctuids; the second inferior vein nearer to the third than the first and the fourth at a distance. Hindwing apricot-shaped, usually with a black terminal band or subterminal band; legs long and slender, slightly pilose; foreleg tibia with long bristle, hind tibia with four long slender spurs.
Abdomen
tapering from the base to the tip, apical tufts short and small.