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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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.