The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands
Author
Wang, Xing
Author
Wang, Min
Author
Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Author
Hirowatari, Toshiya
Author
Wu, Shipher
Author
Huang, Guo-Hua
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Zootaxa
2015
3989
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1
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VIII
Trilocha
Moore
, [1860] (
FIGURE 13
)
Trilocha
Moore
, [1860],
Cat. lep. Ins. E.
India
Co.
2: 382.
Type
species:
Naprepa varians
Walker, 1855
, by monotypy.
Naprepa
Walker, 1855
,
List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
5: 1152.
Type
species:
Naprepa varians
Walker, 1855
, by monotypy. Fletcher & Nye (1982) noted that this genus name is a junior homonym of
Naprepa
Walker, 1855
,
Ibidem
5: 1046 (Lepid.,
Notodontidae
). The objective replacement name is
Trilocha
Moore
, [1860].
Chazena
Walker, 1869,
Charact. undescr. Lepid. Heterocera
: 21.
Type
species:
Chazena
velata
Walker, 1869
, by monotypy. Fletcher & Nye (1982) noted that
C. velata
is a junior subjective synonym of
Naprepa varians
Walker, 1855
,
List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
5: 1153.
Diagnosis.
Characterized on the following features: wings red-ochre to ochre-gray; outer margins of fore- and hindwings with long fringes; uncus long, finger-shaped; gnathos reduced; saccus long and thick; aedeagus long and slender, curved near both ends; 8th sternite with posterior margin medially depressed and V-shaped; anterior margin with two long processes.
Distribution.
Oriental and Palearctic Regions.
Remarks.
The
type
species is widespread in the Oriental Region, extending to
Taiwan
, the
Philippines
, Sulawesi and Java. Its immature stages were described by Sevastopulo (1942). In this paper, two
Trilocha
species are recorded from
China
(Map 8).
Map 8.
Distribution of
Trilocha
spp. mainly in
China
.