Gunda Walker, 1862

Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, Zootaxa 3989 (1), pp. 1-138 : 15

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Gunda Walker, 1862
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II. Gunda Walker, 1862 View in CoL ( FIGURES 4–5 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 )

Gunda Walker, 1862 View in CoL , J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6: 176. Type species: Gunda ochracea Walker, 1862 View in CoL , by monotypy. Norasuma Moore, 1872 View in CoL , Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872: 575. Type species: Norasuma javanica Moore, 1872 , by monotypy. Aristhala Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878: 704. Type species: Aristhala hainana Moore, 1878, by monotypy. Clenora Swinhoe, 1899 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 3(7): 109. Type species: Clenora engonata Swinhoe, 1899 , by monotypy.

Synonymized by Holloway (1987).

Clenera ; West, 1932, Novit. zool., 37: 215. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Clenora Swinhoe, 1899 View in CoL . Hanisa Moore, 1879 View in CoL , Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1879: 406. Type species: Bombyx subnotata Walker, 1859 , by monotypy. Synonymized by Holloway (1987).

Diagnosis. Characterized by the following features: wings reddish-brown, yellowish-brown or dark brown; forewing with M1 and R stalked, M stem clearly visible in discal cell; 2A of hindwing basally forked; tornus of hindwing usually with a prominent recurved tooth; uncus bifid; valvae hooked with apex produced into 2–3 teeth; shape and ornamentation of sternum VIII highly diagnostic. The sexual dimorphism is obvious, with the female larger and paler than the male..

Distribution. Oriental and SE Palaearctic Regions.

Remarks. Roepke (1924) illustrated the larva of G. proxima as having the thoracic segments strongly swollen as in Bombyx . Holloway (1987) reported that Mell described the early stages of G. engonata ( Swinhoe, 1899) in an unpublished manuscript. In this paper, three Gunda species are recorded from China (Map 12).

Map 2. Distribution of Gunda spp. mainly in China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

Loc

Gunda Walker, 1862

Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua 2015
2015
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Clenora

Swinhoe 1899
1899
Loc

Clenora engonata

Swinhoe 1899
1899
Loc

Clenora

Swinhoe 1899
1899
Loc

Hanisa

Moore 1879
1879
Loc

Norasuma

Moore 1872
1872
Loc

Norasuma javanica

Moore 1872
1872
Loc

Gunda

Walker 1862
1862
Loc

Gunda ochracea

Walker 1862
1862
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Bombyx subnotata

Walker 1859
1859
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