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
text
Zootaxa
2015
3989
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1
138
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1
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1175-5326
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Key to the genera of
Bombycinae
in
China
1. Forewing with strongly falcate apex.......................................................................2
- Forewing with slightly falcate or rounded apex.............................................................. 4
2. Body lightly gray or yellow; forewing with a rectangle black spot near apex; Geometridae-like day flying species with broad wings...................................................................................
Rondotia
Moore
- Body heavily gray or ocher; forewing with a cresent-shaped spot or without spots near apex; robust crepuscular species..... 3
3. Tornus of hindwing with a prominent recurved projection, forewing without a crescent-shaped spot near apex......................................................................................................
Gunda
Walker
- Tornus of hindwing without a prominent recurved projection, forewing with a crescent-shaped spot near apex.................................................................................................. ...
Bombyx
Linnaeus
4. Body yellowish-brown; forewing veins connected by serrate submarginal line......................................................................................................... ..
Rotunda
Wang, X. & Zolotuhin
,
gen. nov.
- Body not yellowish-brown; forewing veins not connected by serrate submarginal line............................... 5
5. Costal and inner margins edged with yellow and black.....................
Valvaribifidum
Wang, X., Huang &Wang, M.
- Costal and inner margins not edged with yellow and black.....................................................6
6. Valva long slice, apex divided into two forks...................................................
Ernolatia
Walker
- Valva not long slice, apex not divided into two forks.......................................................... 7
7. Valva strongly developed...............................................................................8
- Valva small to completely reduced....................................................................... 10
8. Dark-colored, medium-sized species; uncus single, thin and straight; socii paired and sclerotized...............................................................................................................
Triuncina
Dierl
- Mostly whitish species; uncus hooked or bifurcate; socii not sclerotized.......................................... 9
9. Uncus hooked.............................................................................
Bivincula
Dierl
- Uncus bifurcate....................................................................... ..
Gnathocinara
Dierl
10. Uncus bifurcate....................................................................... ..
Penicillifera
Dierl
- Uncus not divided.................................................................................... 11
11. Uncus hooked.............................................................................
Ocinara
Walker
- Uncus straight............................................................................
Trilocha
Moore