Analyta barcealis Walker

Taxonomy

The damaged female holotype of Leucinodes barcealis Walker, 1859: 942 collected by A.R. Wallace from Sarawk is in the Oxford UMNH. It is type #988. Treated in Agrotera in Globiz. but we treat it in Analyta.

• syn. Xanclopteryx? nitida Walker 1866: 1636. Syn. n. (Hampson, 1896 268). TL Indonesia, West Papua, Sula. The badly damaged type #991, collected by A.R. Wallace is in the Oxford UMNH;
• syn. Zebronia indecisalis Walker ([1866]1865): 1352. Syn. n. (Hampson, 1896 268). TL Indonesia, West Papua, Sula. The male type #990 collected by A.R. Wallace is in the Oxford UMNH;
• syn. Zebronia retractalis Walker ([1866] 1865): 1350. Syn. n. (Hampson, 1896 268). TL West Papua, Misool [Mysol]. The type #989 collected by A.R. Wallace is in the Oxford UMNH;
• syn. Leucinodes opalina Moore 1888: 289, pl. 179 fig. 10. TL Ceylon.

Description

Walker’s description (Walker 1865 [1866 Jan 13]) is fairly opaque and the plate in Moore [1888] is not of a high quality but Hampson (1896: 268) describes this blotchy patterned sp. pretty well:

Opalescent white. FW with traces of [an] antemedial line with suffused yellow patches on its outer side; a dark discocellular line with [a] suffused yellow patch beyond it; a submarginal slightly waved line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 [media to cubitus], then retracted, the area beyond it fulvous yellow with a grey and fuscous band on it. HW with black speck at lower angle of cell, with some diffused yellow beyond it; an indistinct waved submarginal line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 [media to cubitus], and with diffused yellow beyond it, then greyish white; a subapical fuscous patch and the margin [termen] yellow at apex.

Recorded by Moulton (1912) on Mount Serambu, Sarawak at Wallaces original collecting site.

References

• Walker 1865 ([1866 Jan 13]) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533.
• Walker (1866 [Aug 4]) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 35, (Suppl. 5): 1534-2040.
• Moore, F. ([1888] 1884-1887) Lepid. Ceylon., Vol 3, xv + 578pp, pls.154 [144]-215 L. Reeve & Co., London.
• Hampson, G.F. (1896) Moths, Vol. IV, In Blandford, W.T. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, W.T., Taylor and Francis, London: xxiii + 594pp.
• Walker, F. (1859e) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 19: 799-1036.