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Orthocraspeda Hampson 1893

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China.
  • 2. Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, Harbin 150040, China. & Northeast Forestry University, Northeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center, Harbin 150040, China. & Northeast Forestry University, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, Harbin 150040, China.

Description

Genus Orthocraspeda Hampson, 1893

Orthocraspeda Hampson, 1893, Fauna Br. India (Moths) 1: 373 (key), 393.

Type species: Parasa trima Moore, 1860, by original designation.

Thoseoides Shiraki, 1913, Spec. Rep. Formosa Agric. Expt. Sta. 8: 388, 391.

Type species: Thoseoides fasciata Shiraki, 1913, by original designation.

Darna (Orthocraspeda): Holloway, 1986. Malay. Nat. J. 40 (1–2): 139.

Note. The genus includes middle-sized moths and obscure, brown in coloration. The male antennae are bipectinate till to the tip; female antennae are filiform. The forewing facies resembles Darna Walker, 1862, but usually with four black transverse fasciae (antemedian, median, postmedian, and subterminal fasciae). The tibial spurs are 0-2-4. The larvae are nettle-type.

In the male genitalia, the uncus is bifid and split into lateral processes, but the processes are not balloon-shaped and lack the rows of scales ventrally; the process of costa in valva arise from very base rather than being displaced distally as in Darna and Oxyplax. In the female genitalia, there have a pair of sclerotized plates on the lamella vaginalis either side of the ostium; the signum in ductus bursae is variable, but usually is a scobinate zone or ridge set longitudinally.

Notes

Published as part of Wu, Jun & Han, Hui-Lin, 2023, New species and records of Paroxyplax Cai, 1984 (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) and its allies from China, with a checklist of the treated genera, pp. 383-397 in Zootaxa 5254 (3) on page 391, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7727694

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hampson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Limacodidae
Genus
Orthocraspeda
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Orthocraspeda Hampson, 1893 sec. Wu & Han, 2023

References

  • Shiraki, T. (1913) Investigations upon general insect pests. Formosa Agricultural Experiment Station, Special Report, 8, 670 pp.
  • Holloway, J. D. (1986) The moths of Borneo: Part I. Key to families; families Cossidae, Metarbelidae, Ratardidae, Dudgeoneidae, Epipyropidae and Limacodidae. Malayan Nature Journal, 40 (1 - 2), 1 - 165.
  • Walker, F. (1862) Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 6, 82 - 145 + 171 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1862. tb 00945. x