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Prismosticta Butler 1880

Description

Prismosticta Butler, 1880

Prismosticta Butler, 1880, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 6 (5): 67. (Type species: Prismosticta fenestrata Butler, 1880, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 6 (5): 68. Type locality: Darjeeling, India.). Type-species by original designation.

Prismosticta: Chu & Wang, 1993, Sinozoologia 10: 239; Chu & Wang, 1996, Fauna Sinica Insecta 5: 52.

This genus is similar to Andraca Walker, 1865, but can be distinguished from it by the following characters: apical part of the forewing with one or two white hyaline spots, discal cell of forewing with a black spot. Distributed in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Xing, Huang, Guo-Hua & Wang, Min, 2011, Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China, pp. 65-68 in Zootaxa 2895 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206871

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Biodiversity

Family
Bombycidae
Genus
Prismosticta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Butler
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Prismosticta Butler, 1880 sec. Wang, Huang & Wang, 2011

References

  • Chu, H. F. & Wang, L. Y. (1993) A systematic study of Chinese Bombycidae (Lepidoptera). Sinozoologia, 10, 239 - 241.
  • Chu, H. F. & Wang, L. Y. (1996) Fauna Sinica Insecta V: Lepidoptera: Bombycidae Saturniidae Thyrididae. Science Press, Beijing, China, pp. 52 - 54.