Kantipuria Gorbunov & Arita

Liang, Jia-Yuan & Hsu, Yu-Feng, 2015, A review of clearwing moths in the tribe Synanthedonini, with descriptions of six new species from Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), Zootaxa 4044 (4), pp. 535-555 : 544

Kantipuria Gorbunov & Arita

Kantipuria Gorbunov & Arita 1999:120 .

Type species: Kantipuria lyu Gorbunov & Arita 1999 , original designation.

Kantipuria was previously known to occur only in Nepal, we report it from Taiwan for the first time. The genus Kantipuria is closely related to Synanthedon according to Gorbunov & Arita (1999). It differs from the latter chiefly by having additional brown scalings along termen of hindwing, sclerotized vein CuP of hindwing, and simple crista sacculi. Although many diagnostic characters were mentioned in Gorbunov & Arita (1999) when they established the genus Kantipuria , many of them were proposed to distinguish from genera currently considered as synonyms of Synanthedon (sensu Špatenka et al. 1999; Pühringer & Kallies 2014), thus inadequate to serve as diagnostic characters distinct from Synanthedon under current usage. Further study is required to clarify whether Kantipuria should represent a separate genus or should be regarded as a synonym of Synanthedon .