Sarbanissa interposita Hampson, 1910

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 : 359

Sarbanissa interposita Hampson, 1910

( Figs. 17 , 30, 36 )

Seudyra interposita Hampson, 1910 , Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 9: 437, pl. 148, fig. 11. TL: China (Chin-Fu-San). Seudyra interposita kuangtungensis Mell, 1936 , Stett. ent. Z. 97: 182.

Material examined. 1 male. CHINA, Sichuan province, Erlang Mountain , 15-V-2004, leg. Min Wang. 3 males. CHINA, Hunan province, Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, Zhangjiajie City , altitude 258 m, 17-IV- 2018, leg. Fu-hong Wei. 2 females, same label as the three Hunan specimens mentioned above ( SCAU) .

Identification notes. Wingspan 38 mm. Forewing reddish purple, orbicular and reniform stigma brownish, with white edge, big and black. Hindwing with a discal spot, terminal band broad with inner edge wavy.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to S. catacoloides , but can be separated from it by the following characters: in S. interposita forewing purplish black, not brown; terminal band narrower, darkish black rather than brownish black, and anal angle black, it is yellow in S. catacoloides ; in male genitalia, valva slenderer, with blunt end rather than acute end in S. interposita , saccular process lamellar-shaped in S. interposita , while in S. catacoloides it is horn-shaped.

Distribution. China (Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Taiwan), India ( Hampson 1910; Mell 1936; Singh 2014)

Figures

FIGURES 9–17. Sarbanissa spp.: 9, S. subflava (Moore), male, Zhejiang (SCAU); 10, S. venusta (Leech), male, Sichuan (SCAU); 11, S. assimilis Orhant, male, Guangxi (SCAU); 12, S. yunnana (Mell), male, Yunnan (SCAU); 13, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov., male, Yunnan (SCAU); 14, S.cirrha Jordan, male, Taiwan (photograph by Mr. Shipher Wu); 15, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang, male, Yunnan (SCAU); 16, S. catacoloides (Walker) (from Holloway's “The Moths of Borneo” 1989); 17, S. interposita Hampson, male, Sichuan (SCAU). Scale bar=1 cm.

FIGIRES 30–36. Genitalia of Sarbanissa spp.: 30–33, male; 34–36, female. 30, S. interposita Hampson; 31, S. assimilis Orhant; 32, S. gentilis Kishida, Eda & Wang; 33, S. pseudassimilis sp. nov.; 34, S. albifascia (Walker); 35, S. bala (Moore); 36, S. interposita Hampson.