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
3989
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1
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II.
Gunda
Walker, 1862
(
FIGURES 4–5
)
Gunda
Walker, 1862
,
J. Proc. Linn. Soc.
(Zool.) 6: 176.
Type
species:
Gunda ochracea
Walker, 1862
, by monotypy.
Norasuma
Moore, 1872
,
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.
1872: 575.
Type
species:
Norasuma javanica
Moore, 1872
, by monotypy.
Aristhala
Moore, 1878
,
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond
. 1878: 704.
Type
species:
Aristhala hainana
Moore, 1878
, by monotypy.
Clenora
Swinhoe, 1899
,
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
3(7): 109.
Type
species:
Clenora engonata
Swinhoe, 1899
, by monotypy.
Synonymized by
Holloway (1987)
.
Clenera
;
West, 1932
,
Novit. zool.
, 37: 215. Incorrect subsequent spelling of
Clenora
Swinhoe, 1899
.
Hanisa
Moore, 1879
,
Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.
, 1879: 406.
Type
species:
Bombyx subnotata
Walker, 1859
, by monotypy. Synonymized by
Holloway (1987)
.
Diagnosis.
Characterized by the following features: wings reddish-brown, yellowish-brown or dark brown; forewing with M1 and R stalked, M stem clearly visible in discal cell; 2A of hindwing basally forked; tornus of hindwing usually with a prominent recurved tooth; uncus bifid; valvae hooked with apex produced into 2–3 teeth; shape and ornamentation of sternum VIII highly diagnostic. The sexual dimorphism is obvious, with the female larger and paler than the male..
Distribution.
Oriental and SE Palaearctic Regions.
Remarks.
Roepke (1924)
illustrated the larva of
G. proxima
as having the thoracic segments strongly swollen as in
Bombyx
.
Holloway (1987)
reported that Mell described the early stages of
G. engonata
(
Swinhoe, 1899
)
in an unpublished manuscript. In this paper, three
Gunda
species are recorded from
China
(Map 12).
Map 2.
Distribution of
Gunda
spp. mainly in
China
.