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Mustilia pai Zolotuhin 2007

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70. Mustilia pai Zolotuhin, 2007 (FIGURES 40 A–40B, 40F)

Mustilia pai Zolotuhin, 2007, Neue ent. Nachr., 60: 191. TL: [Shaanxi, China] “ China, Tapaishan im Tsinling, Süd-Shensi”. Holotype: male (ZFMK) [examined].

Diagnosis. Can be distinguished from the other species by the forewing strongly falcate apex, a clearly delineated dark crescent pattern on the outer margin below the apex and the juxta with a pair of elongate processes.

Specimens examined. [SHANNXI] Taibai County: 1 male (holotype), Tapaishan im Tsinling, Süd-Shensi, 26.VI.1935, H. Höne leg. (GU BMB-019, ZFMK); [SICHUAN] Luding County (Mt. Gonggashan): 1 male, 2.VIII.2003, Min Wang & Liu-Sheng Chen leg. (SCAU).

Bionomics. The larval host is unknown.

Distribution. Mainland China (Shaanxi, Sichuan).

Remarks. This species is endemic to China.

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 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716

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