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
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Huang, Guo-Hua
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Zootaxa
2015
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10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1
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XX.
Dalailama
Staudinger, 1896
(
FIGURES 36–37
)
Dalailama
Staudinger, 1896
,
Dt. ent. Z. Iris
8 (2): 303.
Type
species:
Dalailama bifurca
Staudinger, 1896
, by monotypy.
Dailalama
: Staudinger, 1901
,
Cat. Lepid. palaearct. Faunengeb.
(1): 128. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Deilelamia
: Pagenstecher, 1909
,
Geschichte eur. Schmett.
: 433. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Diagnosis.
Characterized by khaki or maroon-brown ground colour, antenna in male pectinate basally and filiform distally, fore- and hindwings with complex patterns of lines, discal cell with a black spot outlined in white, uncus bifid, a dark protuberance on the valva. Female similar to male but antenna filiform and forewing apex slightly falcate.
Distribution.
Sino-Himalayan Region.
Remarks.
This genus was established without being placed in a family. Staudinger (1901) included it in
Bombycidae
, a placement with which Grünberg (1911) and Fletcher & Nye (1982) agreed. We concur and here record two species from
China
(Map 20).
Map 20.
Distribution of
Dalailama
spp. mainly in
China
.