Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China
Author
Wang, Xing
Author
Huang, Guo-Hua
Author
Wang, Min
text
Zootaxa
2011
2895
65
68
journal article
46803
10.5281/zenodo.206871
66941750-ad72-48e6-acf7-444bbfe75262
1175-5326
206871
Prismosticta fenestrata
Butler,1880
Prismosticta fenestrata
Butler, 1880
,
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
6 (5): 68.
Type
locality: Darjeeling,
India
.
Prismosticta sinica
Yang, 1995
,
Insects of Baishanzu Mountain, Eastern
China
: 353.
Type
locality: Zhejiang,
China
.
This species can be distinguished by the uncus with two sickle-shaped processes, the middle of uncus deeply bilobed, Ushaped. Its fully grown larva (originally identified as
Andraca bipunctata
Walker
, l865) was described by Sevastopulo (1939). Distributed in
China
(Zhejiang, Xizang,
Taiwan
),
India
,
Nepal
.