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Issue: Vol. 3811 No. 2: 3 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.2.2
Page range: 185–206
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 2

The Paranthrenini of Mainland China (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)

University of Melbourne, Department of Zoology, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia.
Zoological Laboratories, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, 468-8502 Japan.
National Museum of Nature and Science, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba, 303-0005 Japan
Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, P.R. China.
Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, P.R. China.
Aritasesia checklist clearwing moths Cyanosesia new species new combination Nokona Scoliokona Paranthrene Palaearctic Region Oriental Region

Abstract

We here briefly review the Paranthrenini fauna of Mainland China and provide a checklist of 21 species for this region. We describe six new species: Paranthrene rubomacula Kallies & Owada sp. nov., Nokona opaca Kallies & Wang sp. nov., Nokona bractea Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona nanlingensis Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona spissa Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona shimentai Kallies & Wu sp. nov. Furthermore, we provide numerous new combinations of species formerly associated with the genus Paranthrene in South East Asia, with 12 species transferred to Nokona Matsumura, 1931, 4 to Scoliokona Kallies & Arita, 1998, and one to Cyanosesia Gorbunov & Arita, 1995 (comb. nov.). The genus name Aritasesia Nakamura, 2009 (syn. nov.) is considered a junior subjective synonym of Nokona Matsumura, 1931.