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Tridrepana sadana

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101 China & Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 China. E-mail: songwh @ ioz. ac. cn
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101

Description

Tridrepana sadana (Moore, 1865)

Figs 9–10, 62, 86, 108–109

Drepana sadana Moore, 1865, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 817. Holotype ♂, India: Darjeeling. (Collection of A. E. Russel. Lost.)

Platypteryx sadana: Kirby, 1892, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het.: 733.

Tridrepana sadana: Swinhoe, 1895, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 1895: 4.

Iridrepana sadana: Warren, 1922, in Seitz, Macrolepid. World, 10: 466, pl.49: c.

Tridrepana adelpha Swinhoe sensu Chu & Wang, 1988, Acta Entom. Sinica, 31 (2): 204. (part)

Diagnosis. This species is close to T. finita on wing pattern but much bigger. It differs from that species in that the apex of the forewing is more falcate; the postmedial line is double below CuA 1; a pale gray terminal line is present; the patches between M 3 and CuA 2, especially their dark center spots, are much smaller. In the male genitalia, two lobes of the uncus are nearly triangular, apart from each other, with the posterior margins oblique. But in T. finita, the lobes of the uncus are nearly quadrate and close to each other, with the posterior margins truncate.

Material examined. CHINA, Hubei: Xingshan, Longmengou, 1300 m, 8.IX.1994, coll. Song Shimei, 1♂ (IZCAS). Tibet: Zham, 2200 m, 6. VI.1981, coll. Hu Shengchang, 1♂; Zham, 2200–2400 m, 28. V, 3.VII.1975, coll. Huang Fusheng & Wang Ziqing, 2♀; Nyalam, 2250 m, 17. V.1974, coll. Zhang Xuezhong, 2♂ (IZCAS).

Distribution. China (Hubei, Tibet), India, Nepal, Myanmar.

Remarks. Chu & Wang (1988, 1991) recorded T. adelpha Swinhoe from Tibet (Zham, Nyalam) and Yunnan (Lijiang). We have reexamined the materials labelled as “ adelpha ”, and have concluded that the specimens from Tibet (Zham, Nyalam) are T. sadana (Moore), and the specimen from Yunnan (Lijiang) is T. finita Watson. So T. adelpha Swinhoe is not at present known to occur in China.

Notes

Published as part of Song, Wenhui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2011, A taxonomic revision of Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 in China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae), pp. 39-62 in Zootaxa 3021 on pages 44-45

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZCAS , V
Event date
1975-07-03 , 1994-09-08
Verbatim event date
1975-07-03 , 1994-09-08
Scientific name authorship
Moore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Drepanidae
Genus
Tridrepana
Species
sadana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Tridrepana sadana (Moore, 1865) sec. Song, Xue & Han, 2011

References

  • Moore, F. (1865) On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1865, 755 - 823, pls. 41 - 43.
  • Kirby, W. F. (1892) A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera. R. Friedlander & Son., Berlin, Germany, pp. 1 - 951.
  • Swinhoe, C. (1895) A list of the Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills (continued). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1895, 1 - 75, pl. 1.
  • Warren, W. (1922 - 1928) Family: Drepanidae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Vol. 10, Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. Alfred Kernen, Publisher, Stuttgart, 2 Vols., pp. 443 - 490, pls. 48 - 51.
  • Chu, H-F. & Wang, L-Y. (1988) On the China Drepaninae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) genus Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 31 (2), 203 - 209.
  • Chu, H-F. & Wang, L-Y. (1991) Fauna Sinica (Insceta vol. 3 Lepidoptera: Cyclidiidae and Drepanidae). Science Press, Beijing, pp. 1 - 416, figs. 1 - 204, pls. 1 - 10.