Hermonassa oleographa Hampson, 1911

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 oleographa Hampson, 1911

Figs 50 , 59

Hermonassa oleographa Hampson, 1911, Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)8: 416; Boursin 1967: 67; Poole 1989: 503; Plante 1994: 227; Yoshimoto 1994: 99, pl. 83, fig. 17; Sugi 1995: 90, pl. 117, fig. 4, genit. fig. 697 ♂; Krusek and Behounek 1996a: pl. 51, fig. 7.

Hermonassa griseosignata Chen, 1983, Acta entomologica Sinica 26(3):334, fig. 1; Poole 1989: 503; Chen et al. 1991: 94, pl. 4, fig. 24.

Type material.

Syntypes: H. oleographa : [India] Sikkim, NHM [BMNH], London (not examined). Holotype: H. griseosignata ♂ China, Xizang, Cona Magmang, 2900 m, 6 Aug. 1974, examined.

Other material examined.

China, 1 ♂, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City , 1-30 July 2009, Z.H. Pan leg. ; 1 ♂, Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City , 24 Aug. 2011, Z.H. Pan leg. ; 5 ♂, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City , Bomi County, Pailong Countryside , 22-23 Sept. 2011, H.L. Han leg. , hhl-5283-1; 6 ♂, Aut. Reg. Xizang, Linzhi City , Bomi County, Pailong Countryside , 13 Sept. 2012, Z.H. Pan leg. , genit. prep. GB-69-1, GB-70-1 (coll. NEFU).

Distribution and biology.

The species is distributed in north India (Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, and southwest China. In total 13 males were collected in the vicinity of Linzhi City, Prov. Xizang at altitudes of 2000-3000 m.

Figures

Figures 43 - 50. Hermonassa spp., adults, males 43 H. linzhiensis sp. nov., ♂, holotype 44 Ditto, ♀, paratype 45 H. pallidula (ZFMK) 46 H. hoenei, holotype (ZFMK) 47 H. ellenae, holotype (ZFMK) 48 H. ellenae tapaishana, holotype (ZFMK) 49 H. ellenae robusta, authentic specimen (ZSM) 50 H. oleographa.

Figures 57 - 63. Hermonassa spp., male (57 - 59) and female (60 - 63) genitalia 57 H. hoenei, paratype, China (ZFMK) 58 H. e. ellenae, holotype, China, (ZFMK) 59 H. oleographa, China, genit. prep. hhl- 5283 - 1 60 H. albimacula sp. nov., paratype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 5284 - 2 61 H. legraini, Taiwan (after Ronkay et al. 2013) 62 H. yixincheni, paratype, China, genit. prep. hhl- 5282 - 2 63 H. linzhiensis sp. nov., paratype, China, prep. hhl- 5279 - 2.