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SS: Pantheinae species. Needs review.
SS: Viridistria Behounek & Kononenko, 2012 species known from India.
Viridistria striatovirens (Moore, 1883). India: Meghalaya (TL: Cherrapunji).
Viridistria thoracica (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Viridistria viridipicta (Hampson, 1902). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Viridistria striatovirens is quite different so this is thoracica or viridipicta.
Behounek, G. & V. S. Kononenko, 2012. A revision of the "Belciana" viridipicta (Hampson, 1902) species group with description of a new genus and two new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution VII. Zootaxa, 3590: 37-50. For both species.
Diagnosis (for Viridistria viridipicta): Wingspan 42–44 mm. Externally close to V. thoracica, but differing from the latter by somewhat smaller size, emerald-green tint of the forewing and elements of wing pattern: less suffused central part of medial field, and less brown-filled subterminal field; more distinctly formed brown subapical patch on forewing and by the shape of medial line of hindwing, not angled in tornal angle. Based on this, this species is Viridistria thoracica.
SS: Viridistria Behounek & Kononenko, 2012 species known from India.
Viridistria striatovirens (Moore, 1883). India: Meghalaya (TL: Cherrapunji).
Viridistria thoracica (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Viridistria viridipicta (Hampson, 1902). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Viridistria striatovirens is quite different so this is thoracica or viridipicta.
Behounek, G. & V. S. Kononenko, 2012. A revision of the "Belciana" viridipicta (Hampson, 1902) species group with description of a new genus and two new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution VII. Zootaxa, 3590: 37-50. For both species.
Diagnosis (for Viridistria viridipicta): Wingspan 42–44 mm. Externally close to V. thoracica, but differing from the latter by somewhat smaller size, emerald-green tint of the forewing and elements of wing pattern: less suffused central part of medial field, and less brown-filled subterminal field; more distinctly formed brown subapical patch on forewing and by the shape of medial line of hindwing, not angled in tornal angle. Based on this, this species is Viridistria thoracica.
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2023
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