Napialus Chu & Wang 1985
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Napialus Chu & Wang, 1985
Napialus Chu & Wang, 1985a: 130. Type species: Napialus hunanensis Chu & Wang, 1985, by original designation.
Generic characters. Labial palpus with three segments. Haustellum absent. Antenna (Fig. 1) with scape and pedicel larger than flagellar articles; flagellar articles longer than wide, dark posteriorly, and suffused with setae near anterior tip. Wings (Fig. 2) with humeral vein present in both wings; Sc reaching distal two-fifths to one-third of costal margin; R1 and R2 apical; R2 with R3 stalked, forked distant one-fifth to one-third length of wing from termen; R2+R3 and R4 stalked, then stalked with R5; cross-veins on forewing R–M1, M1–M2, M2–M3 present, and cross-veins on hindwing M–Cu and CuA1–CuA2 present. Legs (Figs. 3–7) without epiphysis; femurs of foreleg and metaleg more or less longer than tibiae, femur of mesoleg conspicuously longer than tibia; tarsi five-segmented, first segment much longer than second segment, median three segments with nearly equal length, and fifth segment distinctively longer than fourth segment; tarsal claws with an arolium. Male genitalia with two well-developed tergal lobes, pseudotegumen developed strongly and posteriorly with a pair of strongly sclerotized pseudoteguminal processes.
Distribution. South of 30°N in China (Fig. 13).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Chu & Wang
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hepialidae
- Genus
- Napialus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Napialus Chu, 1985 sec. Li & Wei, 2014
References
- Chu, H. F. & Wang, L. Y. (1985 a) " Insect-herb " versus hepialids with descriptions of new genera and new species of Chinese Hepialidae. Sinozoologia, 3, 121 - 134.