Dalailama Staudinger, 1896

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 : 95

XX. Dalailama Staudinger, 1896 ( FIGURES 36–37 )

Dalailama Staudinger, 1896 , Dt. ent. Z. Iris 8 (2): 303. Type species: Dalailama bifurca Staudinger, 1896 , by monotypy. Dailalama: Staudinger, 1901 , Cat. Lepid. palaearct. Faunengeb. (1): 128. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Deilelamia: Pagenstecher, 1909 , Geschichte eur. Schmett.: 433. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Diagnosis. Characterized by khaki or maroon-brown ground colour, antenna in male pectinate basally and filiform distally, fore- and hindwings with complex patterns of lines, discal cell with a black spot outlined in white, uncus bifid, a dark protuberance on the valva. Female similar to male but antenna filiform and forewing apex slightly falcate.

Distribution. Sino-Himalayan Region.

Remarks. This genus was established without being placed in a family. Staudinger (1901) included it in Bombycidae , a placement with which Grünberg (1911) and Fletcher & Nye (1982) agreed. We concur and here record two species from China (Map 20).

Map 20. Distribution of Dalailama spp. mainly in China.

Figures

FIGURE 36. Adults of Dalailama spp. A. D. bifurca, male lectotype (Xizang); B. D. bifurca, female (Qinghai); C. D. bifurca, male (Qinghai); D. D. bifurca, female (Qinghai); E. D. vadim, male (Sichuan); F. D. vadim, female (Sichuan).

FIGURE 37. Genitalia of Dalailama spp. A. D. bifurca, male (Qinghai); B. D. vadim, male (Sichuan); C. D. bifurca, female (Qinghai); D. D. vadim, female (Sichuan).