The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands
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Wang, Xing
Author
Wang, Min
Author
Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
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Hirowatari, Toshiya
Author
Wu, Shipher
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Huang, Guo-Hua
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Zootaxa
2015
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6.
Gunda ochracea
Walker, 1862
(
FIGURES 4
C–4D, 5B)
Gunda ochracea
Walker, 1862
,
J
.
Linn
.
Soc
.
Lond
. (
Zool
.) 6: 177. TL: “
Sarawak
”.
Holotype
: female (OUMNH).
Aristhala hainana
Moore, 1878
,
Proc. Zool. Soc. London
1878: 705. TL: “Hainan”. HT: male (BMNH).
Aristhala sikkima
Moore, 1879,
Proc. Zool. Soc. London
1879: 406, pl. 33, fig. 3. TL: “Darjeeling”. ST: male (fig’d) & female
(BMNH).
Gunda leefmansi
Roepke, 1924
,
Tijd. Ent.
67: 168, Taf. 2, fig. 4. TL: Padang, Sumatra.
Holotype
: female (MNHL). A junior synonym.
Diagnosis.
Very similar to
G. javanica
, but can be distinguished by the following characters: forewing without an oblique black line arising from basal 1/4 of costa to beneath of apex; uncus shallowly bifid; valva distally with a slender, apically bifid process.
Specimens examined.
[GUANGXI] Fangchenggang City (Shiwandashan National NR):
1 male
,
30 km
southwest of Nanping town,
900 m
, 21˚43’N, 107˚32’E,
1–14.IV.2003
, Siniaev & local collector leg. (MWM); [HAINAN] Baisha County (Yinggeling National NR):
1 male
, Tongyin Village,
4.XII.2005
, Min Wang leg. (SCAU); Wuzhishan City (Wuzhishan National NR):
1 male
, 18˚53’N, 109˚43’E,
1500 m
,
20.II–1.III.2003
, Siniaev & his team leg. (MWM); [YUNNAN] Jingdong County (Ailaoshan National NR):
1 male
,
3500 m
,
September 1999
, Wang & Li leg. (MWM).
Bionomics.
The larval host plants are
Ficus elastica
Roxb. ex Hornem., 1814
,
Ficus religiosa
Linn., 1753
and relatives. The species usually appears in winter.
Distribution.
Mainland
China
(Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan) and Hainan,
Philippines
,
Vietnam
,
Malaysia
,
Indonesia
,
Thailand
, Sikkim,
Nepal
,
Sri Lanka
,
India
, vast region from Southeast Asia to Sumatra, Borneo and the
Philippines
(Palawan).
Remarks.
The variability of wings is distinct in different geographical areas, but the variability in genitalia characters has no firmly geographical basis.