Thespea Solovyev 2014
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India.
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X
- 3. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & kailash 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442
- 4. Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, Department of Biology and Chemistry (Ulyanovsk, Russia).
Description
Genus Thespea Solovyev, 2014
Thespea Solovyev, 2014: 38.
Type species. Neaera bicolor Walker, 1855 (by original designation) (TL: North India).
Distribution. Indian sub-region to Sumatra and Java (Solovyev 2014).
Diagnosis. The genus Thespea is distinguished on the basis of: i) in both sexes, usually green forewings with marginal series of small brown spots, ii) in the male genitalia, the valva is generally distally divided into saccular (valvula) and costal processes (cucullus) and iii) vesica with a long row of claw-like or saw shaped cornutus (Solovyev 2014).
Taxonomic notes. The genus Thespea is an Oriental genus and many of its species are externally similar to the members of Soteira Solovyev, 2014, although smaller in size, and antenna shows longer rami basally. Another similar genus is Circeida Solovyev, 2014, but the genus Thespea is distinguishable by the male genitalia: i) absence of anellus processes (in Circeida the anellus bears a pair of strongly sclerotized naked spurs), ii) vesica with typical saw shaped cornutus and iii) valva with distal saccular process (in Circeida vesica is without cornutus and distal saccular process). With the new species we describe here, the genus Thespea is represented by 26 species, with five species and one subspecies recorded from India (T. bicolor bicolor (Walker, 1855); T. bicolor teala Solovyev, 2014; T. argyroneura (Hering, 1931); T. heringi Solovyev, 2014; T. albipuncta (Hampson, 1892) and T. aka sp. nov.).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Solovyev
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Limacodidae
- Genus
- Thespea
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thespea Solovyev, 2014 sec. Singh, Ahmad, Chandra & Solovyev, 2021
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, Munich, 1, 1 - 240.
- Walker, F. (1855) s. n. In: List of the specimens of Lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 5. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 977 - 1258.
- Hering, M. (1931) Limacodidae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 10. Spinner und Schwarmer des Indo- Australischen Gebiets. Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 665 - 728.