A review of the genus Belciades Kozhanchikov, 1950 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Pantheinae), with descriptions of two new species from China and Thailand. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution II Author Behounek, Gottfried Author Han, Hui-Lin Author Kononenko, Vladimir text Zootaxa 2011 3070 40 50 journal article 46089 10.5281/zenodo.203316 669f3cd5-9d76-4c28-b134-fb38274958e9 1175-5326 203316 Belciades niveola (Motschulsky, 1876) ( Figs. 1, 2 , 17 , 23 , 24) Habrostola niveola Motschulsky, 1866 , Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes Moscou 39 (1): 195 (Type-localty: Japan ). Synonymy: Pandesma virens Butler, 1881 , Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881: 192 (Typelocalty: Japan ). ота virens japyx Staudinger, 1892 , in Romanoff N. M. (ed), Mémoires sur les Lépidoptéres 6: 402, pl. 7: 1 (Type-localty: Amur). References. ота niveola: Staudinger, 1901 : 130 ; Belciana virens: Warren, 1909 : 368 , pl. 67, h; Draudt, 1950 : 163; Chen, 1982 : 365, pl. 111: 2620; Belciades virens: Inoue and Sugi, 1958 : 433 ; Belciades niveola: Kozhanchikov, 1950 : 444 , figs 228, 229; Sugi, 1982 , 1: 672, 2: 345, pl. 165: 3; Kononenko, 1990 : 13; 1997: 106, figs 5, 6, 15, 21; 2010: 179, pl. 22:6, pl. 110:1; pl. 181:4; Kononenko, Ahn & Ronkay, 1998 : 181:464; Chen, 1999 : 74; Kononenko & Han: 2008: pl. 82:1, pl. 231:6. Material Examined. 75 specimens from Russian Far East, China and Korea . Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs. 1, 2 ). Wing expanse 36–41 mm , forewing length 17–21 mm ; labial palps long, 3rd segment almost equal to the 2nd in length; patagia brownish, bordered with white; tegulae brownish mixed with pale green; thorax with two tufts of erected scales. abdomen with three tufts. Ground color of forewing pale green with grey suffusion, green color more prominent in costal area; basal streak indistinct, fused to a subbasal brown band; antemedial line whitish, bordered with black, with tooth-like extension basally; medial field pale green with intensive grey suffusion; dorsal margin of forewing with more intensive grey suffusion; orbicular as small whitish spot; reniform as vertical black streak, bordered with white; postmedial line double, bordered inside with black dentate line, with a few whitish spots in medial field; subterminal field wide, brown or pale brown, with more intensive subapical patch bordered inside with black shade and below with black streak; subterminal line greenish or pale yellowish; terminal line a series of black triangular dots. Hindwing pale yellowish grey with a traceable discal spot, a medial line and a dark diffused terminal band. In male genitalia ( Fig. 17 ) uncus moderate, relatively wide, pointed at tip; juxta vertically elongate, narrow, widened at base; valva with a distinct neck beyond end of sacculus; sacculus lobe narrow, with straight, long, pointed apical extension, reaching the basal 2/3 of valva; harpe reduced, small, ampulla-like; valva with some broader elongated cucullus covered with strong setae; aedeagus relatively long, more than 2/3 length of valva; ventral and lateral lobes of carina with two short spines on each; vesica tubular, curved, armed basally with a group of 15–18 spinulate cornuti, two isolated spines on a small diverticulum, and apically with a large spinulate cornutus with wide base. In female genitalia ( Fig. 23 ) ovipositor short, papillae anales weakly sclerotised, small; apophyses anterior, short, apophyses posterior twice the length of apophyses anterior; ostium cleft; antrum elongated, oval, well sclerotised and armed with characteristically shaped antevaginal plate, which is basally wide, elongated and apically bifurcate; the margin of eighth sternite forms two dentate plates connected with antrum; ductus bursae relatively short, membranous; bursa, some thickened and ribbed near conjunction with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis falling to caudal part of bursa. Distribution and biology. Russian Far East, China , Korea , Japan .