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
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Huang, Guo-Hua
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Zootaxa
2015
3989
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1
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11.
Rondotia lineata
Leech, 1898
(
FIGURES 7
C, 8C)
Rondotia lineata
Leech, 1898
,
Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.
: 273. TL: ”Western
China
… at Moupin, Wa-shan, Chia-kou-ho, Wa-ssukow, Chia-ting-fu, and Chung-king”.
Syntypes
: (BMNH) [examined].
Diagnosis.
This species is very similar to
R. diaphana
, but can be distinguished by paler wings, thinner forewing antemedial and submarginal lines, obscure postmedial line, 1/3 of basal inner margin with a dark dot on the inner edge of the hindwing at 1/3 from the base, and the medially bent aedeagus
Specimens examined.
[SICHUAN] Luding County:
2 males
, Moxi Town,
19.VII.2009
, Min Wang & Guo- Hua Huang leg. (HUNAU); Xichang City:
1 male
, mountains near Ningyuanfu (MWM); Yajiang County:
2 males
, Siao-Lou (Xi'eluoxiang Town, Yajiang County, Garze Prefecture), Chasseurs Indigènes du P. Dejean, 1903 (ZFMK).
Bionomics.
Larval host unknown.
Distribution.
Mainland
China
(Sichuan).
Remarks.
This species is endemic to Sichuan Province, with specimens so far collected from only three counties.