Prismosticta microprisma Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009

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, Zootaxa 3989 (1), pp. 1-138 : 111

75. Prismosticta microprisma Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009 ( FIGURES 44 A, 44F)

Prismosticta microprisma Zolotuhin & Witt, 2009 , Entomofauna, 16: 251. TL: “N. Vietnam, 200 m, Ben En Nat. Park, 40 km SW Than Hoa”. Holotype: male (MWM) [examined].

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other Prismosticta species by the following characters: forewing with antemedial and medial lines obscure, postmedial and submarginal lines arched; discal cell with a rectangular black spot, inside of costa red; uncus bifid, each lobe shallowly bifid forming four small teeth.

Specimens examined. [FUJIAN] Wuyishan County (Wuyishan National NR): 1 male, 600 m, 18.VIII.1991, Martini leg. (MWM); [GUANGDONG] Ruyuan County (Nanling National NR): 1 male, 7.V.2009, Min Wang leg. (SCAU); [GUANGXI] Fangchenggang City (Shiwandashan National NR): 2 males, Mt. Pinglongshan, Milv Village, 6.IV.2002, Guo-Hua Huang & Min Wang leg. (SCAU).

Bionomics. Symplocos chinensis (Lour.) Druce, 1917 (Symplocaceae) is the recorded larval host in China by Chu & Wang L.Y. (1993), who reported the species Prismosticta microprisma as a misidentification of the species P. t i re t t a Swinhoe, 1903 in their paper. Zolotuhin & Tran (2011) recorded the Eurya sp. ( Theaceae ) as its host in Vietnam.

Distribution. Mainland China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi), Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia.

Remarks. Specimens from various localities in China show little variation.

Figures

FIGURE 44. Adult, wing venation and genitalia with male abdominal segments of Prismosticta spp. A. P. microprisma, male (Guangxi); B. P. fenestrata, male genitalia (Guangdong); C. P. regalis, male genitalia (Hunan); D. P. regalis, male genitalia (Hainan); E. P. tianpinga, male genitalia (Hunan), holotype; F. P. microprisma, male genitalia (Guangxi); G. P. fenestrata, female genitalia (Taiwan); H. P. regalis, male wing venation (Hunan).