Visiana incertata Walker

• Main Author: Schmidt, Olga
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Visiana; Visiana incertata; Antarctic; Queensland; Brisbane; Frazier; Moreton; Moreton Bay; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6098640; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6098640

Visiana incertata (Walker) (Figs 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19), stat. rev. Scotosia incertata Walker, 1862: 1356 Visiana brujata (Guenée): McQuillan & Edwards, 1996: 225, Scoble, 1999: 959 (as syn.) Tephrosia breviaria Walker, 1866: 1591 -1592 (syn. rev.) Types. Scotosia incertata. Australia. [Queensland]. Holotype female, Moreton Bay, no further data (Fig. 3) (BMNH, examined). Remark. The abdomen of the type specimen of V. i n ce r t at a was glued to the thorax, however, it looks authentic. Types. Tephrosia breviaria. Australia. Holotype male, no further data (Fig. 4) (BMNH, examined). Other material examined. Australia. Queensland. One male, one female, Mt Tamborine, 11.iv. 1958, C.W. Frazier, Toowoomba, 12.i. 1962, J. Macqueen (ANIC), one male, three females, Brisbane, 6199, Turner, Kuranda, 1910, FPD, Herberton district, 1911, FPD (BMNH), four males, five females, Picnic Crossing, Brigdon, Curtain Fig, 5.viii. 1996 or 7.viii. 1996, 11.viii. 1996 or 6.ii. 1997, BO, HM, Lamington NP, 15.x. 2006, RLK, Bunya Mts, Wescott, Cunningham’s Gap, 5.xi. 2005, 20.xii. 2005, ex. l. or 23.iii. 2008, OS (IBISCA, OSPC). New South Wales. Three females, Upper Allyn R., I.F.B. Common, M.S. Upton, 8.ii. 1961, Antarctic Beech, Border Range NP, 6.ii. 1999, E.D. Edwards, Mt Keira, V.J. Robinson, 4.xii. 1963 (ANIC). Diagnosis. Forewings similar to V. brujata but slightly brighter, with fuscous scales, with the median band slightly broader than in V. repentinata, with the posterior projecting tooth usually sharper than in V. brujata. In the male genitalia, the valvae are longer than in V. brujata, as well as the projecting apical processes, the juxta is slightly broader than in V. brujata, and the aedeagus is usually distinctly longer than in V. brujata. In the female genitalia, the ductus bursae is medially thicker than in V. brujata, the corpus bursae and the diverticulum are larger than in V. brujata. Description. Labial palpi brown, slightly darker than in V. brujata. Legs brown, with indistinct rings of ochreous-brown scales. ...