Trilocha Moore

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 : 36-37

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6115921

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scientific name

Trilocha Moore
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VIII Trilocha Moore View in CoL , [1860] ( FIGURE 13 View FIGURE 13 )

Trilocha Moore , [1860], Cat. lep. Ins. E. India Co. 2: 382. Type species: Naprepa varians Walker, 1855 , by monotypy. Naprepa Walker, 1855 , List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 5: 1152. Type species: Naprepa varians Walker, 1855 , by monotypy. Fletcher & Nye (1982) noted that this genus name is a junior homonym of Naprepa Walker, 1855 , Ibidem 5: 1046 (Lepid., Notodontidae ). The objective replacement name is Trilocha Moore , [1860].

Chazena Walker, 1869, Charact. undescr. Lepid. Heterocera: 21. Type species: Chazena velata Walker, 1869 , by monotypy. Fletcher & Nye (1982) noted that C. velata is a junior subjective synonym of Naprepa varians Walker, 1855 , List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 5: 1153.

Diagnosis. Characterized on the following features: wings red-ochre to ochre-gray; outer margins of fore- and hindwings with long fringes; uncus long, finger-shaped; gnathos reduced; saccus long and thick; aedeagus long and slender, curved near both ends; 8th sternite with posterior margin medially depressed and V-shaped; anterior margin with two long processes.

Distribution. Oriental and Palearctic Regions.

Remarks. The type species is widespread in the Oriental Region, extending to Taiwan, the Philippines, Sulawesi and Java. Its immature stages were described by Sevastopulo (1942). In this paper, two Trilocha species are recorded from China (Map 8).

Map 8. Distribution of Trilocha spp. mainly in China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

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