Paradoxecia Hampson, 1919

Gorbunov, O. G., 2021, A new species of the genus Paradoxecia Hampson, 1919 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) from West Malaysia with a catalogue of the genus, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (3), pp. 328-335 : 332

Paradoxecia Hampson, 1919

“Gen. Paradoxecia nov.” — Hampson, 1919: 51 (key), 114. Type species: Aegeria gravis Walker, 1865 , by original designation.

= “Genus Paranthrenina m. (nov. gen.).” — Bryk, 1947: 106. Type species: Paranthrenina myrmekomorpha Bryk, 1947 , by original designation.

LITERATURE. Dalla Torre, Strand, 1925: 180 ( Paradoxecia ); Gaede, 1933: 797 ( Paradoxecia ); Lieu, 1935: 191 ( Paradoxecia ); Naumann, 1971: 22 ( Paranthrenina ), 22, 55 ( Paradoxecia ); Heppner, Duckworth, 1981: 21 ( Paradoxecia ), 24 ( Paranthrenina ); Fletch- er, Nye, 1982: 118 ( Paradoxecia ), 119 ( Paranthrenina ); Gorbunov, Arita, 1997: 60 ( Paradoxecia ); Špatenka et al., 1999: 49 ( Paradoxecia ); Kallies, Arita, 2001: 214 ( Paradoxecia ); Gorbunov, Arita, 2001c: 17 ( Paranthrenina ); Pühringer, Kallies, 2004: 7 ( Paradoxecia ); Yu et al., 2019: 262 ( Paradoxecia ); Xu et al., 2019: 29 (key), 35 ( Paradoxecia ); Pühringer, Kallies, 2021 ( Paradoxecia ).

RANGE. Oriental realm from North-eastern India (Meghalaya) in the west to the South-western Japan (Okinawa-jima) in the east and from Central China (Jiangsu and Hubei) in the north and Malaysia ( Sarawak) in the south.