The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands
Wang, Xing
Wang, Min
Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Hirowatari, Toshiya
Wu, Shipher
Huang, Guo-Hua
Zootaxa
2015
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Dierl, 1978
Dierl
1978
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Insecta
Bombycidae
Bivincula
Animalia
Lepidoptera
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45
Arthropoda
species
kalikotei
Bivincula kalikoteiDierl, 1978, Spixiana, 1 (3): 262. TL: ” Nepal, Kyumnu Khola-Tal bei Gandrung 2350 m”. Holotype: male (ZSM) [examined].
Diagnosis.This species is very similar to B. diaphana, but can be distinguished by the following characters: discal cell of forewing with a black dot; uncus entire; valvae fused basally, deeply bifid to near the base with a long costal strip; harpe thumb-shaped; saccus shorter, slightly swollen apically; aedeagus apically curved. FIGURE 16.Adults of Bivinculaspp. A. B. diaphana, male (Thailand); B. B. diaphana, female (Thailand); C. B. diaphana, male (Yunnan); D. B. diaphana, female (Yunnan); E. B. kalikotei, female (Yunnan); F. B. watsoni, male (Yunnan). FIGURE 17.Genitalia of Bivinculaspp. A. B. diaphana, male (N. Vietnam); B. B. kalikotei, male (E. Nepal); C. B. watsoni, male (Yunnan); D. B. kalikotei, female (Sikkim). Specimens examined.[XIZANG (TIBET)] Nyalam: 1 female, 3000 m, 28˚00’N, 86˚00’E, 4–6.VII.1998, O. Ammosov leg. (MWM). Bionomics.Adults are on the wing in summer in Tibet.
Distribution.Mainland China(Xizang (Tibet)), Nepal.
Remarks.The species is here recorded from Chinafor the first time.