Two new species of the subfamily Xyleninae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) Author Kononenko, Vladimir text Zootaxa 2009 1993 53 60 journal article 29770 10.5281/zenodo.1302869 111ec1e3-9549-4bc1-84bf-479ba57cfd5b 1175-5326 1302869 Genus Chasminodes Hampson, 1908 Chasminodes Hampson, 1908 , Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 7: 4. Type-species: Acontia albonitens Bremer , 186, by subsequent designation by Hampson, 1910 . Chasminodes represents a rather homogenous genus of the tribe Cosmiini, subfamily Xyleninae with 17 species predominantly of Manchurian and partially Oriental distribution. The species are characteristic components of Manchurian broad-leaved and mixed forests in the Far East, and in some years the larvae appear in great abundance and seriously damage lime ( Tilia ) trees. Hampson (1910) referred only five species to the genus: C. atrata , C. nervosa , C. nigrilinea , C. cilia and C. albonitens . Sugi (1955 , 1956 ) revised the C. albonitens complex in Japan and named five new species. Subsequently, two new species were described by Yang (1964) from China , two by Kononenko (1981 , 1982 ) from Japan and Russian Far East, one by Chen (1986) from China and one by Behounek (1995) from North Vietnam . The Far Eastern species of the genus were revised by Kononenko (1982) , the Korean species by Shin & Choi (1993) , and those from North China by Han et al. (2003) .