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Issue: Vol. 2895 No. 1: 27 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2895.1.5
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 21

Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China

Department of Entomology, College of Natural Resources & Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, Guangdong, China. Present address: College of Bio-safety Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128 Hunan, China
Institute of Entomology, College of Bio-safety Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, Hunan, China Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology and Control of Plant Diseases and Insect Psets, Changsha 410128, Hunan, China
Department of Entomology, College of Natural Resources & Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, Guangdong, China
Lepidoptera Bombycidae

Abstract

The bombycid genus Prismosticta was established by Butler in 1880 with P. fenestrata as its type species. The genus is mainly distributed in Asian countries: Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar (Holloway, 1987; Chu & Wang, 1993, 1996; Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009). Recently, Kishida & Wang (2011) synonymized P. sinica Yang, 1995 with P. fenestrata Butler, 1880, leaving five species in the genus. Chu & Wang (1993) described ‘Prismosticta unihyala’ based on two male specimens collected from the Wuyishan Mountains, Fujian Province, China, but it is distinctly separated from other Prismosticta species by the following characters: uncus with a long dorsal uncuslike projection arising from the base of uncus, and valvae asymmetrical. We consider that ‘Prismosticta unihyala’ does not belong to any named genus, and will address this issue elsewhere.

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