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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76.
Sesquiluna forbesi
Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009
(
FIGURES 45
A–45C) newly recorded from
China
Sesquiluna forbesi
Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009
,
Entomofauna
Suppl. 16: 266. TL: “N.
Vietnam
,
1600 m
, Mt. Fan-si-pan (Nord), Cha-pa, Primärwald”.
Holotype
: male (MWM) [examined].
Diagnosis.
This species is very similar to the
type
species,
S. albilunata
(Hampson, 1910)
, but can be distinguished from it by the following characters: saccular lobes of valva smooth and hatchet apically; costa membranous; uncus distinctly bilobed with sickle-shaped lobes; valvae distinctly divided into two zones.
Specimens examined.
[GUANGXI] Liuzhou City:
1 male
,
11 km
southeast of Mengshan, 24˚05’N, 110˚33’E,
500 m
,
12–16.I.2008
, V. Siniaev leg. (MWM); [SICHUAN] Leshan City:
1 male
, Mt. Emeishan, local collector leg. (MWM); [YUNNAN] Dali City:
1 female
,
2000 m
,
3–8.VIII.1984
, Görgner leg. (SMFL).
Bionomics.
The larval host is unknown. Adults appear from late spring to early winter (Plate 11E)
Distribution.
Mainland
China
(Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan),
Vietnam
,
Thailand
.
Remarks.
Here recorded from
China
for the first time.