Tambana albiplaga Warren 1912
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Han, H. L.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pantheidae
Tambana
Tambana albiplaga

description: Tambana albiplaga (Warren, 1912)
(Figs 1, 2, 89, 118)
Trisuloides albiplaga Warren, 1912, Novitates Zoologicae 19: 4. Type-locality: India, Meghalaya, Khasis. Lectotype (male, designated here), coll. NHM.
References. Hampson 1913: 344, Pl. 233: 4 (Trisuloides), Speidel & Kononenko 1998: 552, Pl. T: 10, male genit. 28 (Tambana); Kononenko & Pinratana 2005: 131, Pl. 38: 7 (Tambana).
Material examined. Types. Lectotype (designated here): male, [India] Khasia Hills Assam / Trisuloides albiplaga Type Warren// Rothschild Bequest BM 1939-1 (examined by photo); paralectotype: female: Khasia Hills / Trisuloides albiplaga female Warr. / Trisuloides albiplaga female Warr // Rothschild Bequest BM 1939-1, coll. NHM (examined by photo). Other material examined. THAILAND: 1 male, Prov. Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon Mt., 18.v.1999, coll. AP; 1 female, Prov. Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon, National Park, 1416–1500 m, 18°31′N, 98°28′E, Ihle T. leg., 28–30.iv.2006, slide GB8254 female, coll. GB/ ZSM; VIETNAM: 1 male, North Vietnam, Mt. Fan-si-pan, Cha-pa 22°15′N 103°46′E, 8–29.v.1993, Sinyaev & Simonov leg., ex coll. A. Schintlmeister, coll. GR.
Diagnosis. Adult (Figs 1, 2). Wingspan 60–65 mm. The species has odd appearance having bipectinate antennae and forewing pattern dissimilar to other species of Tambana. Forewing ground colour black-brown; wing pattern formed by pale antemedial line, black hardly traceable orbicular and reniform; white mark behind the reniforn toward thin, white antemedial line, blackish-brown subterminal line, white subapical streak and thin pale subapical line with black-brown streaks and terminal line as row of black semilunar streaks outlined with white. Hindwing yellow, with clear blackish terminal band.
Male genitalia (Fig. 89). The armature of male genitalia is similar to T. bella, but differs by longer valva with longer sacculus and less curved harpe. Uncus rather broad, square-tipped; tegumen higher than vinculum; juxta broad, with rounded edges; valva constricted apically, rounded on the top; harpe strong, lies in apical third of valva. Aedeagus slightly curved, with scobinate carina; vesica tubular, projecting dorsally, without cornuti. In related species T. bella aedeagus much thinner and longer, vesica unarmed, carina bearing a patch of thin spines.
Female genitalia (Fig. 118). The female genitalia of T. albiplaga differs from those of its congeners by short sclerotised ductus bursae and small membranous rounded bursae. Ovipositor with very broad papillae anales; anterior and posterior apophyses moderate and equal in length; antrum deep cup-like; ductus bursae very short; corpus bursae small, rounded.
Distribution and bionomy. North India (Hindustan, Sikkim, West and East Ghats, Meghalaya), * Vietnam, North Thailand. Moths occur in medium-high montane forest, flight period: April and May.
description: Published as part of Behounek, G., Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2015, A revision of the genus Ta mb ana Moore, 1882 with description of eight new species and one subspecies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution XIII, pp. 301-351 in Zootaxa 4048 (3) on pages 305-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/235296