Notes on Streblote (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae) from the Malay Archipelago with two new species description
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Prozorov, Alexey M.
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Prozorova, Tatiana A.
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Spitsyn, Vitaly M.
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Spitsyna, Elizaveta A.
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Volkova, Julia S.
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Yakovlev, Roman V.
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Meier, Jürg
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Saldaitis, Aidas
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Revay, Edita E.
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Müller, Günter C.
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2022
2022-10-18
58
14
28
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2022.58.2
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Streblote castanea
(
Swinhoe, 1892
)
(
Figs 1–7
,
25
,
32
,
38–40
)
Ticera castanea
Swinhoe, 1892
,
Catalogue
of eastern and
Australian
Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the
Oxford University Museum
, 1, 269. Type locality: “
Philippine Islands
.”
Holotype
male (OUMNH).
Taxonomic note
. 1. The origin of the
holotype
is unknown, which makes further taxonomic studies impossible. A 130 years old
holotype
male from OUMNH (
Fig. 1
) has to be barcoded using a modern sequencing approach (e.g.,
Prosser
et al.
, 2015
) and then compared with specimens from other
Philippine islands
. So far,
five specimens
from Luzon, Mindoro, and Negros have been barcoded (
p
-distance ranges between 2.45 and 3.92%,
Figs 38–40
) but the species was recorded also from Panay,
Cebu
, Samar, and
Palawan
(
Zolotuhin
et al.
, 1997
), additionally, we know few specimens from Mindanao (NBCL, NSMT, MWM/ZSM). A detailed study of the external variability of males and females mentioned by
Zolotuhin
et al.
(1997)
is also necessary.
2. The species resembles very much
S. dorsalis
from Borneo, a genetic study is necessary to check their relationship due to the lack of significant morphologic differences.