Spatalina desiccata subsp. desiccata

20. Spatalina desiccata desiccata (Kiriakoff, 1963) (new record for India) (Figs. 14, 45) Xeropteryx desiccata Kiriakoff, 1963; Ark. Zool. (2) 12: 289; photo 53; fig. 50. TL. China, N Yunnan, Li-kian. Material examined. India: 1 ♂, Manipur, Ukhrul district, Shirui Hill (Site 2), 25.1236°N 94.4408°E, 2036 m, 24.VII.2019, Genitalia slide no.JSI-GP 318; leg. JS Irungbam (in coll. NZC, ZSI). Diagnosis. Forewing length 21 mm in male. In the male genitalia, the arms of uncus are slender, concave and less curved in S. d. stolida which the uncus arm is convex and more curved in S. d. desiccata. Broad bilobed uncus is present. Distribution. India: Manipur (In the present study). Elsewhere. N Myanmar, China (Yunnan, Sichuan), northern and central Thailand (Schintlmeister & Pinratana 2007). Note. Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007 was reported recently from Arunachal Pradesh (Chandra et al. 2018).
Published as part of Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh, Schintlmeister, Alexander & Fric, Zdenek Faltynek, 2022, New and less known Notodontidae from Manipur, India (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 61-93 in Zootaxa 5196 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5196.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7224135
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