Caelestomorpha Solovyev & Witt, 2009

Wu, Jun, Solovyev, Alexey V. & Han, Hui-Lin, 2022, Two new species and two unrecorded species of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea) from Xizang, China, ZooKeys 1100, pp. 71-85 : 71

Genus Caelestomorpha Solovyev & Witt, 2009 , new genus record for China

Caelestomorpha Solovyev & Witt, 2009, Entomofauna, suppl. 16: 64. Type species (original designation): Caelestomorpha albiceris Solovyev & Witt, 2009. Type locality Vietnam: Ninh Bình.

Remarks.

The genus Caelestomorpha was erected by Solovyev and Witt in 2009, with C. albiceris Solovyev & Witt, 2009 as its type species. To date, Caelestomorpha includes only one congener C. endodonta (Hampson, 1897) besides the type species, which was transferred from the genus Narosa Walker, 1855 by Solovyev and Witt (2009). Members in this genus are of medium size, the ground colour is pale yellow with a series of dentate, almost parallel, oblique fasciae on the surface of the forewing. Of the male genitalia, the uncus is finger-shaped, blunt apically; the cucullus is densely covered with short hairs; and the vesica contains a field of cornuti ( Hampson 1897; Solovyev and Witt 2009). In this paper, the third species Caelestomorpha serratus sp. nov. is described below and the genus is newly recorded in China.