Anabelcia thai Behounek & Kononenko 2012
Creators: name: Han, H. L.
name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Anabelcia
Anabelcia thai

description: Anabelcia thai Behounek & Kononenko, 2012
Zootaxa 3590: 5, Figs 9, 10, 32
(Figs 5, 11, 17)
Material examined. 1 male, Thailand, Sakhon Nakhon Prov., Phu Pan, 420 m, 17º05′767″N, 103º59′90′′E, 26.iii– 5.iv.2011, genitalia slide 12169GB.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 5). Wingspan of male 43 mm. The appearance of male A. thai is comparable to that of the female, described by Behounek & Kononenko (2012a), and similar to A. nepalensis (Figs 6, 12, 18), but differentiated by its larger size and the dark mossy-green and brown colouration of forewing. The wing pattern is similar to that of related species, but differs by presence of blackish subtornal dash and shape of reniform stigma, which formed by a vertical streak bordered with whitish. In A. nepalensis the forewing ground colour is bluish-green, and is distinguished by sharp blackish lines and brown subterminal field, subterminal dash not expressed, and a reniform stigma formed by a white horizontal dash and two white dots. Hindwing of A thai is pale greyish-yellow with discal spot and wide blackish-brown terminal band, bordered with row of dark semilunar streaks surrounded with whitish scales; cilia motley: brown between the viens, greenish opposite the veins. In A. nepalensis the hindwing is yellowish with a distinct discal spot, wider and darker terminal band and brown with whitish cilia.
Male genitalia. (Fig. 11). Compared with A. nepalensis (Fig. 12) the uncus of A. thai is narrower, but more straight; juxta sub-trapezoidal, with a more robust triangular central bar and broader medial flaps; valva covered with strong nonremovable setae, slightly curved, somewhat narrower in the basal part, but in medial part broader and more quadrangular shaped than that in A. nepalensis; cucullus broader than that in A. nepalensis, clasper triangular and broader than that in A. nepalensis, saccular extension stick-like, pointed, slightly curved apically, longer and more narrow than that in A. nepalensis; valva gradually constricted to apex, rounded apically, its apical half is broader than that in A. nepalensis. Aedeagus straight, broader but relatively shorter than in A. nepalensis, carina with triangular spine smaller than that in A. nepalensis; vesica tubular, medially slightly extended, projected ventrally, somewhat narrower than that in A. nepalensis with medial diverticulum smaller than that in A. nepalensis, on dorsal side, bearing a row of six medium-sized, needle-like cornuti (eight to ten cornuti in A. nepalensis).
Female genitalia. (Fig. 17). The female genitalia differ from those of related A. nepalensis (Fig. 18) by the shape of the antrum, the ductus bursae and the sclerotised patch at the juncture of the ductus bursae with the corpus bursae.
Note. The new data considerably extend the distribution of A. thai. It occurs in North Thailand (Provinces Chiang Mai and Lampang) and West Thailand (Prov. Sakhon Nakhon).
description: Published as part of Han, H. L., Behounek, G. & Kononenko, V. S., 2020, New species of Donda Moore, 1882 and new data on Pantheinae species. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution XIV (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae), pp. 279-286 in Zootaxa 4731 (2) on pages 283-285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/3637893