Aegilia describens Walker 1857
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Aegilia describens Walker, 1857
Figs. 4, 32–37, 110, 137, 163
Aegilia describens Walker, 1857. List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 13: 1139. Syntypes: Ceylon [Sri Lanka] (BMNH).
Lophoptera xylinata Walker, 1865b, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 920.
Stictoptera anisoptera Snellen, 1880, Tijidschr. Ent., 23: 88.
Stictoptera describens: Hampson, 1912, Cat. Lepid. Phal. Br. Mus., 11: 149.
Stictoptera anca Swinhoe, 1919, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (9) 4: 120.
Diagnosis. The forewing has a black longitudinal strip from the base to the outer margin, and a short black strip lies parallel to it near the tornus. In the male genitalia, the harpe is hooked, longer than half length of the sacculus, a small digitiform process presents at the base of the harpe; a club-shaped process lies at the base of the costa.
Material examined. CHINA, Hainan: 2 males, 1 female, Diaoluoshan, 930 m, 11–12.XII.2007, coll. Chen Fuqiang and Li Jing; 1 male, Jianfengling, 10.XI.1983, coll. Chen Peizhen; 1 male *, Jianfengling, 13.IV.1982, coll. Lin Youdong; 1 female, Jianfengling, 8.XII.1982, coll. Gu Maobin (IZCAS).
Distribution. China (Hainan), Japan, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea.
Biological notes. The larval host plant was recorded as Mesua ferrea (Guttiferae) (Holloway, 1985).
Remarks. The specimen from Hainan denoted by an asterisk (*) was misidentified by Chen and illustrated as Stictoptera cucullioides (misspelled as cuculloides) (Chen 1999: 947, pl. 43: 5).
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- Walker
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Lepidoptera
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- Noctuidae
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- Aegilia
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- Aegilia describens Walker, 1857 sec. Qi, Wang, Xue & Yang, 2011
References
- Walker, F. (1857) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 13, Edward Newman, London, pp. 983 - 1236.
- Walker, F. (1865 b) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 33. Edward Newman, London, pp. 707 - 1120.
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1880) Lepidoptera van Celebes verzameld door Mr. M. C. Piepers, met aanteekeningen en beschrijving der nieuwe soorten. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 23, 42 - 138, 5 pls.
- Hampson, G. F. (1912) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Vol. 11, Taylor and Francis, London, 689 pp., pls. 174 - 191.
- Swinhoe, C. (1919) Indo-Malayan and Australian Noctuidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9) 4, 118 - 127.
- Holloway, J. D. (1985) Moths of Borneo, part 14: Family Noctuidae: Subfamilies Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae. Malayan Nature Journal, 38, 157 - 317.
- Chen, Y-X. (1999) Fauna Sinica (Insecta Vol. 16, Lepidoptera Noctuidae). Science Press, Beijing, lxxiii + 1596 pp., 701 figs, 68 pls.