The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands
Author
Wang, Xing
Author
Wang, Min
Author
Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Author
Hirowatari, Toshiya
Author
Wu, Shipher
Author
Huang, Guo-Hua
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Zootaxa
2015
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XIV.
Oberthueria
Kirby, 1892
(
FIGURES 21–22
)
Oberthueria
Kirby, 1892
,
Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het.
, 1: 720.
Type
species:
Euphranor caeca
Oberthür, 1880
, by monotypy.
Oberthueria
Staudinger, 1892
, in Romanoff,
Mém. Lépid.
: 337
Type
species:
Euphranor caeca
Oberthür, 1880
, by monotypy (a junior homonym and junior objective synonym of
Oberthueria
Kirby, 1892
).
Oberthüria
: Staudinger, 1892
, in Romanoff,
Mémoires sur
les lepidoptères
(
Mém. Lépid.
) 6: 337. (incorrect original spelling).
Euphraor
: Kirby, 1892
,
Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het.
1: 720 (incorrect subsequent spelling).
Euphranor
Oberthür, 1880
,
Etudes d’Entomologie
(
Étud. ent
.) 5: 40.
Type
species:
Euphranor caeca
Oberthür, 1880
, by monotypy (a junior homonym of
Euphranor
Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
(
Lepidoptera
,
Saturniidae
)).
Diagnosis.
Characterized by the following features: wings reddish-brown or yellowish-brown; forewing apex falcate; antemedial and postmedial lines serrate; submarginal line straight, outer edge highlighted in white, curved inwards near costa; outer margin with one to several teeth; hindwing with postmedial line serrate;, submarginal line slightly almost straight edged with white; outer margin with variably developed teeth; uncus forcipate; valvae asymmetrical.
FIGURE 20.
Adults and male genitalia of
Promustilia
spp. A.
P. andracoides
, male (Yunnan), holotype; B.
P. andracoides
, male (Yunnan); C.
P. yajiangensis
sp. nov.
, male (Sichuan), holotype; D.
P. andracoides
, male genitalia (Yunnan); E.
P. yajiangensis
sp. nov.
, male genitalia (Sichuan), holotype.
Distribution.
Sino-Pacific area, from Russian Far East and
Japan
to southern
China
and NE
Myanmar
).
Remarks.
Zolotuhin & Wang (2013) revised
Oberthueria
to include six species based on morphological characters and partial sequences of the mitochondrial gene, cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) (DNA barcodes).
Robinson
et al.
(2001) and Zolotuhin & Wang (2013) recorded the larval host plants as species of
Aceraceae
(e.g.
Acer palmatum
Thunb., 1783
,
A. septilobum
Fang, 1932
,
A. mono
Maxim., 1857
),
Fagaceae
(
Quercus acutissima
Carruth., 1862
,
Q. variabilis
Bl., 1850
and other species of oaks),
Moraceae
(
Morus alba
Linn., 1753
) and
Theaceae
(
Camellia japonica
Linn., 1753
). The larvae are unique in having an extremely long anal horn (Plate 7A–7D). In the present paper, five of the six species of
Oberthueria
are recorded from
China
(Map 14).
Map 14.
Distribution of
Oberthueria
spp. mainly in
China
.