Hermonassa shizukoae Sugi, 1995

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 shizukoae Sugi, 1995

Figs 10 , 21 , 22 , 27

Hermonassa shizukoae Sugi, 1995, Tinea 14, (suppl. 2): 92, pl. 117, fig. 17; Hreblay and Ronkay 1998: 133 (junior synonym of H. renifera Chen, 1991); Kovács et al. 2018: 306, pl. 3, figs 5-8, genit. figs 15, 16 (distinct species).

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, India, West Bengal, Sandadakphu, ca 50 km NW of Darjiling, 3600 m, 14.viii.1985(W.Thomas), genitalia slide No SS-5155 "Shigero Sugi Collection", “HOLOTYPE” (red label), Hermonassa shizukoae Sugi ♂, det. S. Sugi, 1995" (coll. NIAES), examined.

Distribution and biology.

The species is distributed in north India and Nepal where it is rather common at altitude ca 3600 m ( Kovács et al. 2018).

Remarks.

The species is the southern Himalayan representative of H. renifera - H. shizukoae species pair ( Kovács et al. 2018).

The Hermonassa cuprina species group

The Hermonassa cuprina species group includes two species, H. cuprina and H. brunneocuprina sp. nov. This species group can be characterised by the uniform external appearance with a relatively large size, the narrow forewings, cupper-brown or brown colouration and by the forewing pattern with more or less clearly expressed thin basal, antemedial, and postmedial transverse lines and the presence of black contrasting claviform, and the orbicular and reniform stigmata. The main diagnostic features of the male genitalia are the relatively short, flat and apically dilated, spatulate uncus; juxta small, three leaved, dart-shaped, large U-shaped vinculum, the relatively narrow simple valva, thin, upcurved harpe, and the slightly curved aedeagus with a sclerotised comb in the carina. The female genitalia are characterised by the deeply split antevaginal plate, deep cup-like antrum, a thin, medium length ductus seminalis, and the presence of two longitudinal signa on the corpus bursae.

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).