Thubana Walker, 1864

Yang, Linlin, Zhu, Yanmei & Li, Houhun, 2010, Review of the genus Thubana Walker (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from China, with description of one new species, ZooKeys 53, pp. 33-44 : 34-35

Thubana Walker, 1864

Thubana Walker, 1864: 814. Type species:

Thubana bisignatella Walker, 1864: 814, by original designation.

Titana Walker, 1864: 813. Type species:

Titana adelella Walker, 1864: 814, by original designation.

Tiva Walker, 1864: 821. Type species:

Tiva binotella Walker, 1864: 822, by original designation.

Inapha Walker, 1864: 999. Type species:

Inapha lampronialis Walker, 1864: 999, by original designation.

Stelechoris Meyrick, 1925: 243. Type species:

Pachnistis exoema Meyrick, 1911: 707, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Thubana is characterized by the combination of the following characters: forewing often having a white costal patch, costa gently curved with sharpened end, termen more or less concave, tornus broadly rounded, M3 usually stalked with CuA1+2, R4 and R5 often coincident (insome species R4 and R5 stalked basally), R3 stalked with R4+5; hindwing with M2 present, almost parallel to stalk of M3+CuA1; abdominal tergites with spinose zones; valva thumb-shaped, juxta plate-shaped, and aedeagus with diverse cornuti in male genitalia; antrum cup-shaped, ductus bursae usually with many internal spinules, signum with dense spinules in female genitalia.

Thubana is similar to the genus Torodora in the shape of the wings, the presence of M2 on the hindwing, the spined tergites of the abdomen and the structure of male and female genitalia. But Torodora usually lacks the costal patch on the forewing, and M3 is separated with CuA1+2, which can separate the two genera from each other.

Distribution.

China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka.

Checklist of Thubana species in China