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Thespea Solovyev 2014

  • 1. Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala - 147002, Punjab, India; amitkatewa @ yahoo. com
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India

Description

Genus Thespea Solovyev, 2014

Thespea Solovyev, 2014, Proc. Mus. Witt Munich 1: 57.

Type-species: Neaera bicolor Walker, 1855.

Remarks: On the basis of species Neaera bicolor Walker the genus Thespea was erected (Solovyev, 2014). The main characteristics are medium sized moths with green thorax, small, rounded terminal segment of labial palpus, antennae bipectinate basally and shortly unipectinate distally in male, filiform in female, two spurs in Hind tibia. Male forewing length is 11–17.5 mm and 14–22 mm in females. Hindwings yellowish in both sexes (Solovyev, 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Katewa, Amit & Pathania, P. C., 2019, Genitalic studies of four Limacodid species (Limacodidae Lepidoptera) including the description of a new species from Western Ghats, India, pp. 373-380 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) on page 375, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/148937, http://zenodo.org/record/13185689

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Solovyev
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Limacodidae
Genus
Thespea
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Thespea Solovyev, 2014 sec. Katewa & Pathania, 2019

References

  • Solovyev, A. V. 2014. Parasa Moore auct. Phylogenetic review of the complex from the Palaearctic and Indomalayan regions (Lepidoptera, Limacodidae). Proceedings of the Museum Witt 1. Munich-Vilnius, 240 pp.