Hermonassa renifera Chen, 1991

Gao, Biao, Han, Hui-Lin, Kononenko, Vladimir S. & Pan, Zhao-Hui, 2023, Five new species of the genus Hermonassa Walker, 1865 from Xizang Autonomous Region, China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae), ZooKeys 1179, pp. 35-61 : 35

Hermonassa renifera Chen, 1991

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Hermonassa renifera Chen, 1991, Acta entomologica Sinica 34(3): 353, fig. 2; Hreblay and Ronkay 1998: 133 (senior synonym of H. shizukoae Sugi, 1995); Kovács et al. 2018: 306 (distinct species).

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, China, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Medog, 2000 m. Deposited in Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, adult examined.

Distribution and biology.

The species is known only from its type locality, Aut. Reg. Xizang, China.

Remarks.

Hreblay and Ronkay (1998) considered this taxon conspecific with H. shizukoae but latter small differences were found in the details of the male genitalia and Kovács et al. (2018) concluded that H. renifera and H. shizukoae are two distinct species. The species was described from two specimens, and no additional material was ever collected. Because of the holotype of H. renifera was not dissected, the ink drawing of the male genitalia probably belongs to the paratype. Here we accept Kovács et al. (2018) point of view, but further study of this species pair on the basis of newly collected materials is necessary.

Figures

Figures 1 - 10. Hermonassa spp., adults 1 H. nigricans sp. nov., ♂, holotype, China 2 Ditto, ♀, paratype 3 H. anthracina, ♂, holotype, China (ZFMK) 4 H. anthracina, ♀, China 5 H. kalamantra, ♂, holotype, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 6 H. kalamantra, ♂, China 7 H. conusa sp. nov., ♂, holotype, China 8 Ditto, ♀, paratype, China 9 H. renifera, ♂, holotype, China (NACR) 10 H. shizukoae, ♂, holotype, India (NIAES).

Figures 19 - 27. Hermonassa spp., male (19 - 22) and female (23 - 27) genitalia 19 H. conusa sp. nov., holotype, genit. prep. hhl- 3492 - 1 20 H. renifera, paratype (after Chen 1991) 21 H. shizukoae, holotype, India (after Sugi 1995) 22 H. shizukoae, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 23 H. nigricans, paratype, genit. prep. hhl- 3493 - 2 24 H. anthracina, China, (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 25 H. kalamantra, Nepal (after Kovacs et al. 2018) 26 H. conusa sp. nov., paratype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 3491 - 2 27 H. shizukoae, paratype, India (after Sugi 1995).