Prismosticta Butler, 1880

Wang, Xing, Huang, Guo-Hua & Wang, Min, 2011, Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 2895, pp. 65-68 : 65

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.206871

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190571

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Prismosticta Butler, 1880
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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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

Loc

Prismosticta Butler, 1880

Wang, Xing, Huang, Guo-Hua & Wang, Min 2011
2011
Loc

Prismosticta:

Chu & Wang 1993
1993
Loc

Andraca

Walker 1865
1865
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