A review of Apha floralis species group (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae)

• Published in: Acta Biologica Sibirica
• Main Authors: Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Pugaev, Sergey N., Du, Tran Thieu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020
• Subjects: Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Bombycoidea; Eupterotidae; Apha; Apha floralis; Cephalornis; Coelenterata; Bilateria; Nephrozoa; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Circumscriptional names of the taxon under; Notchia; Carbotriplurida; Boltonocostidae; Circumscriptional names; Pterygota; Circumscriptional name; Basal; Eumetabola; Strashila incredibilis; Panorpida; Amphiesmenoptera; Porina; Galacticoidea; Heteroneura; Ditrysia; Cossina; Bombycina; Bombyciformes; China; Vietnam; Apha floralis group; taxonomy; morphology; new species; Sibirica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/abs.6.e59529

5 species of the genus Apha Walker, 1855 are included here under the floralis group, three of which are described as new: A. zephyrus sp. nov. (type locality: China, Yunnan, Dianceng Shan, 2.200 m), A. witti sp. nov. (type locality: China, Sichuan, Qionglai Shan, 1.400 m) and A. chloralis sp. nov. (type locality: Vietnam, Cha Val, Nam Giang, Quang Nam, 546 m). Types of all species are illustrated, biology and morphology of preimaginal instars are discussed for A. kantonensis Mell, [1930] and A. chloralis sp. nov. A new synonymy for Apha Walker, 1855 and Preptothauma Draudt, 1931 (including a single mislabeled species P. oxydiata Draudt, 1931), syn. nov. is established.