Tambana Moore 1882
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

description: Genus Tambana Moore, 1882
Tambana Moore, 1882, in Hewitson & Moore, 1882, Description of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the late Mr W. S. Atkinson (2): 155. Type species: Tambana variegata Moore, 1882, by original designation. Synonymy: Trisulipsa Berio, 1973, Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 79: 160. Type species: Trisulipsa quadrata Berio, 1973, by original designation. A junior synonym of Tambana bella (Mell, 1935). Trisuloides auct., nec Butler, 1881.
References. Warren 1912b: 43; Hampson 1913: 344; Prout 1922:227; Nye 1975: 470; Poole 1989:948, 978 (as synonym of Trisuloides, Trisulipsa Berio, 1973, Trisuloides, part); Speidel & Kononenko 1998: 549 (Tambana, syn. Trisulipsa, Trisuloides auct.).
Diagnosis. Tambana is a typical Pantheinae genus which could be characterized by the most often large size, hairy eyes, in most cases brown, grey-brown or grey colouration of forewing with characteristic wing pattern, yellow hindwing with dark terminal band (which sometimes covers the entire wing). Certain species have, however, white and black mosaic pattern or white-spotted dark-grey forewings, being similar to the members of Trichosea Grote, 1875. The armature of the male genitalia in most cases has a rather uniform structure showing the affinity of Tambana with other Pantheinae genera, i. e. Trisuloides, Disepholcia, Trichosea, Xanthomantis, Antitrisuloides, and especially with Anacronicta Warren, 1913, while the structure of the aedeagus and vesica, as well as the female genitalia, are rather diverse in the genus. The closest relative of Tambana is the genus Anacronicta (presently under revision), which in the most cases have similar with Tambana structural external characters, type of forewing pattern and shape or armature genitalia. Most distinctive character between Tambana and Anacronicta is structure of the vesica of the later, bearing by 2-3 large finger-like diverticula armed with dense medium cornuti. The structure of vesica in Tambana is variable, but without clearly expressed finger-like extensions.
Imago (Figs 1–88). Medium-sized to large moths, wingspan 32–65 mm. Male antennae bipectinate (T. albiplaga and T. plumbea), serrate or filiform in other species; those of female filiform with fasciculate cilia; proboscis developed, short; labial palps short, compressed, 3rd segment short or moderate; eyes covered with short hairs; body stout; abdomen with crest formed by erect scales on 1–5 segments; forewing broad, usually dark brown, brown or grey; in most cases wing pattern with characteristic shape of subterminal line and tornal mark; hindwing colouration in most cases yellowish, yellow or orange with dark terminal band, in some species uniformly yellow, grey-brown or white.
Male genitalia (Figs 89–117). Uncus rather short, broad, belt-like, beak or diamond-like, with pointer apex; tegumen broad, in some species with penicular lobes, vinculum large, V-shaped; juxta plate-like; transtilla with broad lobes; valva lobe-like, apically rounded; costa strong, sacculus narrow, harpe large, moderate curved, placed in mid or in distal third of part of valva. Aedeagus variable in shape, in most cases broad, massive; vesica tubular or bulbous-tubular, in some species very short; arming of vesica variable, in some species vesica unarmed.
Female genitalia (Figs 118–130). Ovipositor with papillae anales short, broad, anterior and posterior apophyses relatively short, equal in length; antrum in many cases deep cup-like; ductus bursae moderately long, in some species sclerotised; corpus bursae large, saccular, rounded or elongate, often with sclerotised patch in caudal part.
The genus includes now 26 distinguished taxa (eight new species and a new subspecies are described here) distributed almost exclusively in the Oriental region, mainly in South and Southwest China and Indochina. Most species occur in montane, predominantly primary, forests.
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 303-304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/235296