title: Revision of the Old World genera Panthea Hübner, [1820] 1816 and Pantheana Hreblay, 1998 with description two new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution IX.
abstract: The Old World species of the genus Panthea Hübner [1820] 1816 are revised. The article contains the description of two new species Panthea fuscogrisea sp. n. and Panthea florianii sp. n. from continental China and re-description of two species P. roberti Joannis 1928 and P. grisea Wileman, 1919 with illustration of male and female genitalia. Diphthera hoenei Draudt, 1950 (syn. n.) is synonymised with P. roberti Joannis 1928. The species Panthea ronnyi Thony, 1996 is excluded from the genus Panthea. Lectotypes for Diphthera hoenei and Panthea roberti are designated. The genus includes five species in the Old World, distributed mainly in Sino-Himalayan subregion of the Palaearctic. A checklist of species of the genus Panthea is presented. The little-known genus Pantheana Hreblay, 1998 with the sole species Pantheana yangzisherpana Hreblay, 1998 is reviewed. The imagines, male and female genitalia of all Old World species of Panthea and Pantheana are illustrated.
authors.affiliation: D-85567 Grafing/Munich, Sudetenstrasse 6, Germany.; Email: Gottfried.Behounek@t-online.de.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Behounek
authors.affiliation: School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, CH-150014 China.; Email: hanhuilin@yahoo.com.cn.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Soil Science Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RF-690022 Vladivostok, Russia.; Email: kononenko@ibss.dvo.ru.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Kononenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*