Taxonomic Notes on Menophra atrilineata (BUTLER) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

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  • クワエダシャクに関する分類学的知見
  • クワエダシャクに関する分類学的知見〔英文〕
  • クワエダシャク ニ カンスル ブンルイガクテキ チケン エイブン

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Abstract

It is well known that Menophra atrilineata (BUTLER) is an important pest of the mulberry, Morus spp., in Japan and Taiwan. This species is also distributed in Korea, China, Southeast Siberia and Southeast India. Founded on the bipectinate antenna in female WARREN (1894) established the genus Phthonandria for the reception of this species. WEHRLI (1941) added P.emarioides and its variety epistygna from China, and he suggested that Hemerophila cuneilinearia WILEMAN from Taiwan might be closely related to emarioides. Recently I had an opportunity to rearsome larvae of atrilineata in Taiwan, and found that all the adults emerged from them should be identified with cuneilinearia. Moreover I was able to examine the type-specimens of emarioides and epistygna through the courtesy of Dr. D. STUNING, Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. In this paper I give a taxonomic account of Menophra atrilineata (BUTLER), with notes on the genera Phthonandria and Menophra.

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  • Lepidoptera Science

    Lepidoptera Science 35 (3), 138-144, 1984

    THE LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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