The Paranthrenini of Mainland China (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)
Author
Kallies, Axel
Author
Arita, Yutaka
Author
Owada, Mamoru
Author
Wu, Guo-Yi
Author
Wang, Min
text
Zootaxa
2014
3811
2
185
206
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3811.2.2
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Paranthrene
Hübner
, [1819]
This genus is well known from the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. Numerous species have also been described from Africa and South
East Asia
. However, most of them are likely to belong to other related genera.
Species of
Paranthrene
can be recognized by the morphology of the male genitalia (with soft multifurcate scales covering the valvae), the structure of the antennae (long, reaching the discal spot) and of the labial palps (narrow and smoothly scaled) as well as the size of the head (relatively small, about ½ of the width of the thorax).
During the course of this study several species formerly associated with
Paranthrene
were found to belong to
Nokona
(see below for details). One species,
Cyanosesia panorpaeformis
(Boisduval, [1875])
comb. nov.
, originally described in
Sesia
, but later considered belonging to
Paranthrene
, is hereby transferred from
Paranthrenini
to
Sesiini
.