Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007

Chandra, Kailash, Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Ash, Anirban, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Mallick, Kaushik & Raha, Angshuman, 2018, Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 4505 (1), pp. 1-84 : 31

Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007

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Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007 ; 5: 204.

Spatalina desiccata stolida ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 422.

TL: Fansipan [ Vietnam]; TD: MWM

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh. Elsewhere: Laos, Vietnam.

Material Examined: Arunachal Pradesh, Changlang dist. , Namdapha NP, 29 mile (27.4982°N; 96.3910°E, 371 m), 30.x.2015 (3♂) , 12.xi.2015 (1♂), leg. A. Majumder & Party.

Diagnosis: Half of forewing: ♂ 21–24mm. The subspecies is externally indistinguishable from the nominotypical subspecies S. desiccata desiccata ( Kiriakoff, 1963) due to variability among individuals. Generally, the stolida group appears to be somewhat paler in comparison to other populations.

The main diagnoses are observed in the male genitalia, where arms of uncus are slender and concave and less curved in stolida which are convex and more curved in desiccata . Broad bilobed uncus present.

Note: New record to India.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Notodontidae new records to India. (A–D) Phalera (Phalera) birmicola Bryk, 1949, A—Adult ♂, B—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, C—Aedeagus, D—8 th Sternite & tergite; (E–H) Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007, E—Adult ♂, F—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, G—Aedeagus, H—8 th Sternite & tergite; (I–L) Hiradonta hannemanni Schintlmeister, 1989, I—Adult ♂, J—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, K—Aedeagus, L—8 th Sternite & tergite; (M–P) Kamalia tattakana (Matsumura, 1927), M—Adult ♂, N—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, O—Aedeagus, P—8 th Sternite & tergite.