New species and records of Paroxyplax Cai, 1984 (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) and its allies from China, with a checklist of the treated genera
Author
Wu, Jun
Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China.
Author
Han, Hui-Lin
Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China. & Northeast Forestry University, Northeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center, Harbin 150040, China. & Northeast Forestry University, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, Harbin 150040, China.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-13
5254
3
383
397
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5254.3.5
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Genus
Orthocraspeda
Hampson, 1893
Orthocraspeda
Hampson, 1893
,
Fauna Br.
India
(Moths) 1: 373 (key), 393.
Type
species:
Parasa trima
Moore, 1860
, by original designation.
Thoseoides
Shiraki, 1913
,
Spec. Rep.
Formosa
Agric. Expt. Sta
. 8: 388, 391.
Type
species:
Thoseoides fasciata
Shiraki, 1913
, by original designation.
Darna
(
Orthocraspeda
)
:
Holloway, 1986
.
Malay. Nat. J.
40 (1–2): 139.
Note. The genus includes middle-sized moths and obscure, brown in coloration. The male antennae are bipectinate till to the tip; female antennae are filiform. The forewing facies resembles
Darna
Walker, 1862
, but usually with four black transverse fasciae (antemedian, median, postmedian, and subterminal fasciae). The tibial spurs are 0-2-4. The larvae are nettle-type.
In the male genitalia, the uncus is bifid and split into lateral processes, but the processes are not balloon-shaped and lack the rows of scales ventrally; the process of costa in valva arise from very base rather than being displaced distally as in
Darna
and
Oxyplax
. In the female genitalia, there have a pair of sclerotized plates on the lamella vaginalis either side of the ostium; the signum in ductus bursae is variable, but usually is a scobinate zone or ridge set longitudinally.