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Squamura maculata Heylaerts 1890

  • 1. Tay Nguyen University, Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak 63000, Vietnam. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2521 - 7532; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0009 - 7843 - 8647
  • 2. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049 Russia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9512 - 8709 & Tomsk State University, Lenina pr. 36, Tomsk, 634050 Russia. & Western Caspian University, 31 Istiglaliyyat St., Baku, Azerbaijan.
  • 3. Forest Protection Research Centre, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Hanoi 11910, Vietnam. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2345 - 2398 * Corresponding author. Email: ttltra @ ttn. edu. vn

Description

Squamura maculata Heylaerts, 1890

Female (n = 18; Fig. 3a, b): Body light brown, length 19–23 mm. Antennae bipectinate, light brown. Head and thorax brownish-white covered with with scattered dark brown scales. Forewing length 35– 41 mm. Forewing greyish-white to whitish-brown with scattered dark brown spots and prominent trapezoid black spot, and dark brown veins. Hindwing greyish-white towards costa, otherwise brownish-white with dark brown veins and irregular transverse markings and outer marginal spots at each vein. Abdomen greyish-white with scattered dark brown scales, particularly for posterior segments.

Male (n = 13): 13-16% larger than female, colour and pattern as for female.

Larva: Head dark brown or black, body grey, gradually darker in succeeding instars, finally dark grey in the pre-pupal instar (Fig. 3c). Body devoid of secondary body setae, but with long lateral primary setae. Final instar body length 50–60 mm, width 6–7 mm.

Pupa: Cylindrical, initially light brown, darkening to brown with dark brown head. Length 21– 33 mm, width 5–6 mm (Fig. 3d). Male pupae 15–18% smaller than female.

Notes

Published as part of Tra, Tran Thi Le, Yakovlev, Roman V., Anh, Chung Nhu & Chi, Nguyen Minh, 2025, Larvae of Squamura spp. (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Metarbelidae) damaging urban trees in Vietnam, pp. 280-289 in Ecologica Montenegrina 88 on pages 282-283, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.88.20, http://zenodo.org/record/16958388

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Heylaerts
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Metarbelidae
Genus
Squamura
Species
maculata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Squamura maculata Heylaerts, 1890 sec. Tra, Yakovlev, Anh & Chi, 2025

References

  • Heylaerts, F. J. M. (1890) Heterocera exotica. Nouveaux genre et especes des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique 34: XXVI-XXX.