Panthea Hubner 1820
Creators: name: Anweiler, Gary G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pantheidae
Panthea

description: Key to the New World <i>Panthea</i> 1 Antenna bipectinate (male)......................................................................... <b>2</b> – Antenna simple (female) (<b>Note:</b> female of <i>P</i>. <i>reducta</i> unknown)............... <b>12</b> 2 Hindwing black except fringe, scales tiny, hair-like exposing membrane, appearing glassy (label can be read through wing); Caribbean: Hispaniola (Fig. 3).......................................................................................... <i>P. reducta</i> – Hindwing with white scales, or if without white scales dark scales not greatly reduced, wing opaque................................................................................. <b>3</b> 3 Small (FW length 14-15 mm); wing pattern blurred or appearing out of focus; uncus obsolete (Fig. 45); aedeagus without sclerotized cornuti, but armed with patch of many soft fleshy-appearing spines (Figs. 1, 45)............................................................................................................... <i>P. apanthea</i> – Larger (FW length 16 mm or more); wings with lines clear, contrasting; uncus present; aedeagus armed with 1-2 large sclerotized cornuti (Figs. 46-57)....... <b>4</b> 4 Terminus of uncus bifurcate (Fig. 48).......................................... <i>P. gigantea</i> – Terminus of uncus not bifurcate; square, rounded or pointed (Figs. 46, 47, 49-57)........................................................................................................ <b>5</b> 5 Everted vesica long, narrow, 3-5 × long as wide (Figs. 54-56)...................... <b>6</b> – Everted vesica short, bulbous, 1-2 × long as wide (Figs. 46-53)................... <b>8</b> 6 Vesica with large bent or curved terminal cornutus (Fig. 56); sw USA................................................................................................................... <i>P. greyi</i> – Vesica with large straight terminal cornutus (Figs. 54-55); eastern USA and Canada....................................................................................................... <b>7</b> 7 Vesica with second smaller cornutus near base of vesica (Figs. 55, 57), southeastern USA (Fig. 71).................................................... <i>P. furcilla australis</i> – Vesica without second cornutus (Fig. 54); eastern USA and Canada (Fig. 71) (<b>Note:</b> specimens from zone where <i>furcilla</i> and <i>australis</i> meet show intermediate characters)............................................................... <i>P. furcilla furcilla</i> 8 Vesica with large curved claw-like basal cornutus and finger-like diverticulum with a small straight terminal cornutus (Fig. 50)..................... <i>P. virginarius</i> – Vesica without finger-like diverticulum (Figs. 46-49) (<b>Note:</b> some specimens of <i>virginarius</i> from Wyoming and southern Idaho may have a greatly reduced diverticulum with a very small or obsolete spine) (Fig. 51).......................... <b>9</b> 9 Vesica with two large, curved, approximately equal-sized cornuti (Fig. 59)................................................................................................... <i>P. guatemala</i> – Vesica with two prominent cornuti, one much smaller in size (Figs. 46; 52- 53)............................................................................................................ <b>10</b> 10 Vesica with one short curved cornutus and one long, thin, straight or recurved cornutus; clasper simple, not scoop-shaped or forked (Figs. 52-53) <b>11</b> – Vesica with large basal and small terminal cornutus; large scoop-shaped clasper (Fig. 46)............................................................................. <i>P. judyae</i> 11 Wings with prominent white areas (Figs. 36-38); eastern and boreal North America (Fig. 71).......................................... <i>P. acronyctoides acronyctoides</i> – Wings without prominent white areas, or if white area present, confined to small areas of outer edge of FW postmedian line and anal angle of HW (Figs. 40-43); Rocky Mountains and foothills (Fig. 71)............................................................................................................. <i>P. acronyctoides nigra</i> 12 Sterigma vestigial or obsolete (Fig. 58); sw USA......................... <i>P. apanthea</i> – Sterigma well developed (Figs. 59-68)....................................................... <b>13</b> 13 Corpus bursae with thick-walled opaque upper and thin-walled translucent lower sections (Figs. 65-68)....................................................................... <b>14</b> – Corpus bursae single, an oval or oblong, thin-walled translucent sac (Figs. 59-64)...................................................................................................... <b>16</b> 14 Ductus bursae narrow, finely folded or “corrugated,” expanding abruptly to corpus bursae (Figs. 65-67); eastern USA and Canada.............................. <b>15</b> – Ductus bursae wider, with large folds, widening gradually and with folds extending onto upper section of corpus bursae (Fig. 68); sw USA (Fig. 71)............................................................................................................... <i>P. greyi</i> 15 Ductus bursae strap-like, few twists and folds (Fig. 67); east and se USA (Fig. 71)......................................................................... <i>P. furcilla australis</i> – Ductus bursae not strap-like, with many finer “corrugated” folds (Fig. 65); northeastern USA and Canada (Fig. 71) (Note: specimens of ssp. <i>australis</i> and <i>furcilla</i> show intermediate characters where the ranges meet) <i>................................................................................................................ <i>P. furcilla furcilla</i> </i> 16 Sterigma massive, heavily sclerotized (Figs. 58-61).................................... <b>17</b> – Sterigma not massive, only moderately sclerotized (Figs. 62-64)............... <b>19</b> 17 Ductus bursae heavily sclerotized to or almost to corpus bursae (Fig. 61)...................................................................................................... <i>P. guatemala</i> – Ductus bursae with heavily sclerotized part extending no more than half way to corpus bursae (Figs. 59-60)................................................................... <b>18</b> 18 Ductus bursae between sterigma and corpus bursae narrow; corpus bursae tear-drop or oval shape (Fig. 59); FW length less than 25 mm....... <i>P. judyae</i> – Ductus bursae below sterigma wide; corpus bursae oblong (Fig. 60); FW length greater than 25 mm.......................................................... <i>P. gigantea</i> 19 Ductus bursae slightly curved, smooth, with expanded rim at ostium (Figs. 63-64)..................................................................................................... <b>20</b> – Ductus bursae straight, wrinkled, without expanded rim at ostium (Fig. 62)............................................................................................... <i>P. virginarius</i> 20 Wings with prominent white areas (Figs. 36-38); eastern and boreal North America (Fig. 72)......................................... <i>P. acronyctoides acronyctoides</i> – Wings without prominent white areas (Figs. 40-43); Rocky Mountains and foothills (Fig. 69) (<b>Note:</b> specimens of <i>acronyctoides</i> show intermediate characters in central Alberta)........................................... <i>P. acronyctoides nigra</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Anweiler, Gary G., 2009, Revision of the New World Panthea Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with descriptions of 5 new species and 2 new subspecies, pp. 97-134 in ZooKeys 9 (9)</i> on pages 100-102, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.9.157, http://zenodo.org/record/576456