Bombyx mori ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 9

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Bombyx mori ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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1. Bombyx mori ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL ( FIGURES 1 View FIGURE 1 A–1B, 3A–3C)

Phalaena (Bombyx) mori Linnaeus, 1758 , Syst. Nat. 1: 499. TL: “ Chinae View in CoL ,.. hodie culta per Europam”. Type: male (Linnean Society London) [examined].

Bombyx sinensis Moore & Hutton, 1862 View in CoL , Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (3): 313. TL: “Inhabits China ”.

Bombyx croesi Moore & Hutton, 1862 , Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (3): 313. TL: “Inhabits China ”.

Bombyx fuscata Motschulsky, 1866 View in CoL , Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 39 (1): 192. TL: [ Japan].

Bombyx fortunatus Moore & Hutton, 1862 View in CoL , Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (3): 313. TL: “Inhabits China ”.

Bombyx arracanensis Moore & Hutton, 1862 View in CoL , Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (3): 314. TL: “Cultivated in Arracan, but is said to have been introduced from China ”.

Bombyx textor Moore & Hutton, 1862 View in CoL , Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (3): 314. TL: “Inhabits China ”.

Diagnosis. Characterized by the following features: body and wings white with veins clearly visible; uncus about 1/3 length of valva; valva broad basally and narrow distally; saccus slender and short with pointed apex; aedeagus straight; apophyses posteriores longer and thicker than apophyses anteriores; ductus bursae very short.

Specimens examined (all from domesticated stock). [HUNAN] Changsha City: 8 males and 12 females, campus of Hunan Agricultural University, 13–15.IX.2012, Tui-Zi Feng fed. (HUNAU); [GUANGDONG] Guangzhou City: 2 males and 3 females, campus of South China Agricultural University, 7–9.VII.2003, Guo-Hua Huang fed. (SCAU); 4 males and 5 females, campus of South China Agricultural University, 14–17.X.2006, Liu- Sheng Chen fed. (SCAU); 3 males, Yasunori Kishida collection, donation, 2002 (NSMT); 2 males and 1 female, Syoziro Asahira collection, donation 1998 (NSMT).

Bionomics. Morus alba Linn., 1753 is the larval host. It is mostly reared in domestic manufacturing plants in villages. Eggs are initially round and white (Plate 1B), later slowly changing to gray (Plate 1C). The larvae are quite variable in color with the thoracic zone swollen and the caudal horn reduced to a hump (Plate 1D–1E). The pupa is enclosed in a white or yellow cocoon (Plate 1F–1G) from which the adults emerge through an emergence hole and mate soon after (Plate 1A, 1H).

Distribution. Cultivated throughout China, and also distributed widely throughout tropical and subtropical areas of the world.

Remarks. Robinson et al. (2010) reported that the host plants of this species are consisting of Morinda citrifolia Linn., 1753 (Rubiaceae) , Morus alba Linn., 1753 and M. nigra Linn., 1753 (both Moraceae ). The silkworm is an economically important insect, being a primary producer of silk. It was domesticated from the wild silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina , and is entirely dependent on humans for its reproduction as it does not occur in the wild. The practice of breeding silkworms for the production of raw silk has been under way for at least 5,000 years in China, from where it spread to Korea, Japan, India and the West ( Barber, 1992; Chu & Wang, 1996). As a model species for biological research, the complete silkworm genome was sequenced by Xia et al. (2004). Subsequently, many genetic analyses have been done based on this by other researchers (e.g. Miao et al., 2005; Mita et al., 2004; Xia et al., 2009).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

Genus

Bombyx

Loc

Bombyx mori ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua 2015
2015
Loc

Bombyx fuscata

Motschulsky 1866
1866
Loc

Bombyx sinensis

Moore & Hutton 1862
1862
Loc

Bombyx croesi

Moore & Hutton 1862
1862
Loc

Bombyx fortunatus

Moore & Hutton 1862
1862
Loc

Bombyx arracanensis

Moore & Hutton 1862
1862
Loc

Bombyx textor

Moore & Hutton 1862
1862
Loc

Phalaena (Bombyx) mori

Linnaeus 1758
1758
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