Stictane Hampson, 1900

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Kwon, Hyung Wook, Kim, Kil Won & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2021, A checklist of Stictane Hampson (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) with emphasis on the Laotian fauna, Zootaxa 4981 (1), pp. 137-150 : 138

Genus Stictane Hampson, 1900

Stictane Hampson, 1900 , Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 258.

TS: Pitane fractilinea Snellen, 1880 .

TL: Sumatra.

Species of the genus can be recognized by the following characters: the gray ground color of forewing with a dark medial band, one or several dark discal spots, and subbasal and subterminal series of dark spots. The forewing vein R4 and R5 are stalked for 1/2 length of R4; the R3 and R4+5 are stalked about 1/4 length of R3; the hindwing veins Rs and M1 are stalked for the half length of M1, from the upper part of the discal cell. In the male genitalia, the uncus is slender and long or short; the valva is narrow, with a saccular process; and the aedeagus vesica bears cornuti. In the female genitalia, the corpus bursae is scobinate, with long spines ( Holloway 2001).

Distribution. India ( Kirti & Singh 2015), Sri Lanka ( Hampson 1900), China ( Fang 2000), Taiwan ( Chen et al. 2018), Thailand ( Černý & Pinratana 2009), Cambodia ( Bayarsaikhan & Bae 2015, Bae et al. 2016, Bayarsaikhan et al. 2019a), Vietnam ( Bayarsaikhan & Bae 2015, 2021, Bayarsaikhan et al. 2019a), Indonesia ( Snellen 1879, van Eecke 1927, Spitsyn & Bolotov 2020), Borneo ( Holloway 2001), peninsular Malaysia ( Bucsek 2012, 2014); Korea ( Bayarsaikhan et al. 2020a), Japan ( Kishida 2011).