Sympistis anubis Troubridge 2008, sp. n.
Creators: name: Troubridge, J. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Sympistis
Sympistis anubis

description: <i>Sympistis anubis</i> Troubridge sp. n. (Figs. D-1, L-6 Q-3) <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Sympistis anubis</i> flies with <i>S. sandaraca</i> (Fig. C-24) at mid-elevations in the northern Sierra Nevada. Both species are of the <i>S. hayesi</i> group and have dusky forewings. They are easily separated from each other by the darker grayish brown forewing and pale dusky grayish brown postmedial hindwing band of <i>S. anubis</i> vs. an orange cast to the forewing and orange postmedial hindwing band in <i>S. sandaraca</i>. The forewing of <i>Sympistis melantho</i> (Smith) (Fig. D-3) is marked with white and not dark and dusky like that of <i>S. anubis</i>, and the hindwing postmedial band of <i>Sympistis pudorata</i> (Smith) (Fig. D-2) is off-white. <b>Description</b>. Antennae filiform. Prothoracic collar a dirty cream color with a diffuse median black line. Head gray, thorax shades of gray, black, and light gray scales. Forewing length 15 mm. <b>Dorsal forewing</b> ground color dark, dusky grayish brown; diffuse antemedial, postmedial, and median lines charcoal gray; thin terminal line black; veins bordered with scattered, dark cream scales; subterminal line obscure, broken, dark cream, bordered basally with charcoal gray –charcoal gray most prominent near apex; obscure orbicular and reniform spots light gray with dark gray fill; fringe a series of dark cream, charcoal, light gray, charcoal, and finally light gray lines lightly checkered with darker shades between veins. <b>Dorsal hindwing</b> basal area gray; off-white mesial band heavily suffused with gray scales, particularly so on veins and discal lunule; marginal band dark grayish brown; fringe cream basally, a faint gray median line, white distally. <b>Male genitalia</b>. (Fig. L-6) Valve with pointed, upturned apex; ventral margin extended ventrally between clasper and cucullus; ampulla of clasper with mid-section slightly widened then tapering evenly on anterior and posterior margins to terminal spine. Vesica bends downward to the right, curling about 160° and pointing leftward; a ribbon of sparse cornuti runs dorsally the entire length of vesica; a narrower ribbon of dense cornuti on ventral surface along middle ½ of vesica; a single, coarse apical cornutus and small bundle of cornuti project from apex; small apical diverticulum present ventrally. <b>Female genitalia</b>. (Fig. Q-3) Ovipositor lobes rounded with scattered setae; a corona of short setae surrounds ovipositor lobes near tip, these setae produced at 90° to the abdomen; a ruff of longer, finer setae encircles ovipositor lobes at base; a sclerite occurs on ventral surface of ductus bursae at ostium bursae, ductus bursae narrow, abruptly widens to sac-like appendix bursae; appendix bursae with extension on right which narrows and curls around to ductus seminalis on dorsal side; corpus bursae absent. <b>Type material</b>. <b>Holotype</b> male: USA: California, Jackson Creek, Plumas Co., 39° 50' N, 120° 39' W, 5400’, 28 viii 2000, J. Troubridge, in the CNC. <b>Paratypes:</b> 1&amp;male; 1&amp;female;, same data as holotype. <b>Etymology</b>. Anubis is an ancient Egyptian deity who was a protector of the dead. It is a noun in apposition. <b>Distribution.</b> This species is known from the northern Sierra Nevada, California.
description: Published as part of <i>Troubridge, J. T., 2008, A generic realignment of the Oncocnemidini sensu Hodges (1983) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae), with description of a new genus and 50 new species, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 1903 (1)</i> on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1903.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5134476