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Issue: Vol. 3262 No. 1: 9 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3262.1.2
Page range: 22–34
Abstract views: 38
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Taxonomic remarks on Andraca Walker, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) with descriptions of five new species

Department of Zoology, State Pedagogical University of Ulyanovsk, pl. Lenina 4, RUS-432700, Ulyanovsk, Russia
Lepidoptera Bombycidae Oberthuerinae Andraca new species new synonymy taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Andraca Walker, 1865, is divided into two subgenera, one of them new: Chrypathemola Zolt., subgen. nov. (typespecies Andraca apodecta Swinhoe, 1907). The following new species are described: Andraca draco, sp. nov. (from Java);Andraca lawa, sp. nov. (from Palawan), Andraca paradisea, sp. nov. (from Philippines), Andraca chrysocollis, sp. nov. (fromPhilippines) and Andraca (Chrypathemola) nobilorum, sp. nov. (from Vietnam). A male lectotype for Andraca bipunctataWalker, 1865 is designated from the collection of ZMHU; this designation led to the new synonymy: Andraca bipunctata Walker, 1865 = Andraca angulata Kishida, 1993, syn. nov. The systematics of the family Bombycidae is briefly discussed.

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