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Issue: Vol. 3821 No. 2: 20 Jun. 2014
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-06-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.11
Page range: 297–300
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 11

A new species of the genus Genusa (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) from China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China College of Chemistry and Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
College of Chemistry and Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Lepidoptera Geometridae Ennominae

Abstract

Genusa Walker, 1855, a genus currently included in the Hypochrosini, was originally established in the Lymantriidae, and transferred to the Geometridae by Hampson (1895), who designated G. bigutta Walker, 1855 as the type species, and listed G. destituta Walker, 1865, originally described from Cambodia, as a synonym of G. bigutta, though without any explanation. The only literature which compared destituta with bigutta is Swinhoe (1900), where he stated that destituta is hardly separable from G. bigutta.