1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

1: Bhutan, Mongar, Yongkhola, Hotelanlage, 1700 m, 25. April 2018, am Licht (det. & fot.: Oskar Jungklaus), conf. (cf) Michel KettnerForum

2. Diagnose

2.1. Erstbeschreibung

1: Moore (1879: 404) [nach Copyright-freiem Scan auf www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Andere Kombinationen

• Benbowia virescens (Moore, 1879)

3.2. Synonyme

• Stauropus obscuratus van Eecke, 1929 [Synonym nach funet.fi]
• Benbowia dudgeoni Kiriakoff, 1967 [Synonym nach funet.fi]

3.3. Taxonomie und Faunistik

St Laurent et al. (2025: 60-61) akzeptieren die Aufsplitterung der Gattung Stauropus vorerst nicht und vermerken: "Note: The five subgenera of Stauropus listed below were treated as valid genera by Kobayashi and Nonaka (2016), but only singletons of each subgenus were sequenced in that study (all forming a single clade), making it unclear whether individual full genera are actually necessary. Subgenus Benbowia Kiriakoff, 1967 Type species: Stauropus virescens Moore, 1879 - Subgenus Chlorostauropus Kiriakoff, 1968 Type species: Stauropus viridissimus Bethune-Baker, 1904 - Subgenus Miostauropus Kiriakoff, 1964 Type species: Stauropus mioides Hampson, 1904 - Subgenus Palaeostauropus Okagaki and Nakamura, 1953 Type species: Stauropus obliterata Wileman and South, 1917 - Subgenus Stauropus Germar, 1812 Type species: Phalaena fagi Linnaeus, 1758."

Stauropus virescens wurde von Darjeeling (Indien) beschrieben, das Synonym Stauropus obscuratus von Sumatra (Fort de Kock), das Synonym Benbowia dudgeoni Kiriakoff, 1967 ebenfalls von Sumatra (Lebong Tandai). Kiriakoff (1967:) vermerkte zu letzterem Taxon: "Holotype and paratype, males: Sumatra, Lebong Tandai, 3.XII.1921 and 2330.IX.1921 (C. J. Brooks) (BM). Very near to a continental undescribed species of DUDGEON from Sikkim, labelled as “St. virescens” in the British Museum (Natural History), from which latter it is, however, quite distinct. The insular form described above differs in details of the genital armature and must be considered to have reached specific rank."

(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)

3.4. Literatur

• Beschreibung als Stauropus obscuratus: Eecke, R. van (1929): De Heterocera van Sumatra. — Zoologische Mededeelingen, 12 (3-4): 137-175, Taf. 13-14. [PDF auf repository.naturalis.nl]
• Beschreibung als Benbowia dudgeoni: Kiriakoff, S.G. (1967): New genera and species of Oriental Notodontidae (Lepidoptera). — Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 110 (3): 37-64. [Digitalisat auf archive.org]
• Erstbeschreibung: Moore, F. (1879): Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. — Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1879 (2): 387-417, pl. XXXII-XXXIV. [Digitalisat auf archive.org]
• St Laurent, R.A., Goldstein, P.Z., Prada-Lara, L., Schintlmeister, A., Miller, S.E., Miller, J.S. & R.K. Robbins (2025): Phylogenomics of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) A Subfamily-Level Reclassification. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 657. — 133 S.; Washington D.C. (Smithsonian Scholarly Press). [zum PDF-Download auf researchgate.net]

3.5. Informationen auf anderen Websites (externe Links)

• [Moths of Borneo [als Benbowia virescens]]