Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China
Author
Wang, Xing
Author
Huang, Guo-Hua
Author
Wang, Min
text
Zootaxa
2011
2895
65
68
journal article
46803
10.5281/zenodo.206871
66941750-ad72-48e6-acf7-444bbfe75262
1175-5326
206871
Prismosticta tiretta
Swinhoe, 1903
Prismosticta tiretta
Swinhoe, 1903
,
Fascic
.
Malay
.
Zool
. 1: 52.
Type
locality: Sandakan, Borneo.
Prismosticta tiretta
: Barlow, 1982
,
An introduction to the moths of South
East Asia
: 46.
This species is similar to
P. fenestrata
but coloration is lighter; hind wing with termen wavy, discal spot curved concave basad, apical triangular white hyaline spot smaller than in
P. regalis
. This species was described from Sandakan, Borneo, and
Holloway (1987)
reported the range as Sundaland. Subsequently it has been recorded from
Vietnam
,
Malaysia
,
Thailand
,
Myanmar
(
Candèze, 1927
;
Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009
).