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Oberthueria lunwan Zolotuhin & Wang, X. 2013

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37. Oberthueria lunwan Zolotuhin & Wang, X., 2013 (FIGURES 21 H, 22D)

Oberthueria lunwan Zolotuhin & Wang, X., 2013, Zootaxa 3693 (4): 475. TL: “Yunlong county, Fengshuining Mts., 2460 m, 13 km north of Caojian town, 10–20.V.1999, 25˚46’N, 99˚06’E”.

Diagnosis. The sister species of O. formosibia, which it strongly resembles in general appearance. However, O. lunwan is more yellowish with a less contrasting wing pattern and, uniquely in the genus, almost symmetrical valvae.

Specimens examined. [YUNNAN] Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture: 1 male, Holotype, Yunlong county, Fengshuining Mts., 2460 m, 13 km north of Caojian town, 10–20.V.1999, 25˚46’N, 99˚06’E, Dr. R. Brechlin leg. (MWM); Paratypes: 1 male, same data as holotype (MWM); Tenchong County: 1 male, Gaoligong Mt, Tenchong, 3000 m, June 1999, Wang & Li leg. (MWM); 1 male, Lijiang/Zhongdian, 27˚29’ N, 99˚53’ E, 24–25.V.2012, 3200 m, Floriani leg. (A. Floriani collection, Milan, Italy).

Bionomics. The larval host is unknown.

Distribution. Mainland China (Yunnan), northeastern Myanmar.

Remarks. This is a high montane species known from altitudes of 1600–3200 m, and only collected in May and June (Zolotuhin & Wang, 2013). However, it probably has a second generation in August. Moths were collected in deep mountain valleys in strongly degraded and therefore sparse secondary forest.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716

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