Anabelcia siitanae ( Remm, 1983 ) Behounek & V.S.Kononenko, 2012

Behounek, G. & V. S. Kononenko, 2012, A revision of the “ Belciana ” kala Prout, 1924 species group with description of a new genus and two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae) from East Asia. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution VI, Zootaxa 3590, pp. 1-15 : 5-6

Anabelcia siitanae ( Remm, 1983) , comb. n.

( Figs 14, 27, 33)

Belciana siitanae Remm, 1983 , Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 62(3): 596, fig. 6. Holotype, male: Russia, Primorye terr., Khasansky reg. Andreevka , Zoological Museum Tartu University , Estonia.

References: Kononenko 1990:13 ( Belciades ); 2003:276, male genit. fig. 163:3,4 ( Belciades ); 2005: 133 ( Belciana ); 2010: 179, Pl. 22:7, male genit. 110:3, female genit. 181:5 ( Belciana ); Matov et al. 2008:257 ( Belciana ).

Material examined. Holotype, male: Russia, Primorye terr., Khasansky reg. Andreevka ( Zoological Museum Tartu University , Estonia); 1 male, [ Russia, Primorye] S Ussuri, Andreevka 8–10.vii.1982 (leg. R. Lindt) ( FMNH); 1 male, 1 female, Russia, Primorye, Khasansky distr. , near Andreevka, 12–20.vii.1984 (leg. V. Kononenko), genit. preps. male 288IBSS, female 654IBSS.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 14). Wingspan 43–44 mm. A. siitanae externally differs from allied species by darkbrown background of the forewing; bluish-green elements of wing pattern represented in basal and costal parts of medial area, marked near ventral margin of wing in medial area and in subterminal line and subterminal field. Head and thorax bluish-green, tegulae bordered with black; abdomen yellowish-brown, thoracic and abdominal crests represented by tufts of black erected scales. Ground colour of forewing blackish-brown, basal area, antemedial and postmedial lines and brownish with bluish-green; medial field darker than background, blackish with mossy-green suffusion; medial area in costal part bluish-green, crossed by black bordering lines; black bordering of ante- and postmedial lines hardly traceable in mid of medial field; orbicular and area between orbicular and reniform filled by white; reniform as white spot, surrounded with two white dots on black background; subterminal field brown, uninterrupted; terminal line dentate, traceable bluish-green, bordered with black; terminal field blackish-brown, with black streaks between veins and two distinct bluish-green dashes on vein M2 and M3; terminal line as row of black dots, bordered inside with white; cilia brown, pale opposite veins. Hindwing pale yellowish, with distinct diffused discal spot and clear blackish-brown terminal band, darker in outer margin and with indistinct anal mark formed by black and bluish-green scales. Male genitalia ( Fig. 27): uncus long, thin, curved and apically pointed; juxta rhomboidal, with short medial extension; valva covered with strong setae, slightly curved, boarded mesially, with almost parallel margins, slightly constricted and rounded apically; clasper triangular; saccular extension strong, flattened, knife-like, curved and pointed apically. Aedeagus straight, sclerotised on ventral side, carina with strong wide triangular spine; vesica tubular, medially extended, projected ventrally, with medial diverticulum on dorsal side, bearing group of 8–10 moderate needle-like cornuti. Female genitalia ( Fig. 33): apophyses posteriores and anteriores stronger and somewhat longer than in related species, antrum with rounded medial plate split for two lobes with relatively wide gutter; antrum sclerotized, rather short; corpus bursae ovoid, narrower to joining with ductus bursae.

Distribution. (Map 39). Russia, South of Primorye territory, apparently endemic to this region.

Bionomy. Meso-hygrophilous species, occurring very locally in the extreme south of Primorye in open humid, broadleaved maritime forests with Quercus dentata , Q. mongolica , Tilia mandshurica , Fraxinus mandchurica and Ulmus laciniata . Univoltine, the moth flies from the beginning of June to late July. The larva and its foodplants are unknown.

Note. The species was described in the genus Belciana ( Remm 1983) , but not included to the catalogue of Poole (1989) catalogue. This and the two following species represent a species group in the genus.