Gunda ochracea Walker, 1862
Gunda leefmansi Roepke, 1924
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
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Walker, 1862
Walker
1862
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Insecta
Bombycidae
Gunda
Animalia
Lepidoptera
15
16
Arthropoda
species
ochracea
Gunda ochracea Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. ( Zool.) 6: 177. TL: “ Sarawak”. Holotype: female (OUMNH). Aristhala hainana Moore, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. London1878: 705. TL: “Hainan”. HT: male (BMNH). Aristhala sikkimaMoore, 1879, Proc. Zool. Soc. London1879: 406, pl. 33, fig. 3. TL: “Darjeeling”. ST: male (fig’d) & female (BMNH). Gunda leefmansi Roepke, 1924, Tijd. Ent.67: 168, Taf. 2, fig. 4. TL: Padang, Sumatra. Holotype: female (MNHL). A junior synonym.
Diagnosis.Very similar to G. javanica, but can be distinguished by the following characters: forewing without an oblique black line arising from basal 1/4 of costa to beneath of apex; uncus shallowly bifid; valva distally with a slender, apically bifid process. Specimens examined.[GUANGXI] Fangchenggang City (Shiwandashan National NR): 1 male, 30 kmsouthwest of Nanping town, 900 m, 21˚43’N, 107˚32’E, 1–14.IV.2003, Siniaev & local collector leg. (MWM); [HAINAN] Baisha County (Yinggeling National NR): 1 male, Tongyin Village, 4.XII.2005, Min Wang leg. (SCAU); Wuzhishan City (Wuzhishan National NR): 1 male, 18˚53’N, 109˚43’E, 1500 m, 20.II–1.III.2003, Siniaev & his team leg. (MWM); [YUNNAN] Jingdong County (Ailaoshan National NR): 1 male, 3500 m, September 1999, Wang & Li leg. (MWM). Bionomics.The larval host plants are Ficus elasticaRoxb. ex Hornem., 1814, Ficus religiosaLinn., 1753and relatives. The species usually appears in winter.
Distribution.Mainland China(Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan) and Hainan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sikkim, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, vast region from Southeast Asia to Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines(Palawan).
Remarks.The variability of wings is distinct in different geographical areas, but the variability in genitalia characters has no firmly geographical basis.