Oberthueria Kirby, 1892

Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, Zootaxa 3989 (1), pp. 1-138 : 56-58

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.

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.

Figures

FIGURE 21. Adults and labels of Oberthueria spp. A – B. O. formosibia, male (Taiwan), type; C – D. O. formosibia, male (Taiwan), type?; E. O. caeca, male (Sichuan); F. O. yandu, male (Henan); G. O. jiatongae, male (Guangdong); H. O. lunwan, male (Yunnan), holotype.

FIGURE 22. Genitalia of Oberthueria spp. A. O. caeca, male (Sichuan); B. O. yandu, male (Henan); C. O. jiatongae, male (Guangdong); D. O. lunwan, male (Yunnan), holotype; E. O. formosibia, female (Taiwan).