Mustilizans Yang, 1995

Chandra, Kailash, Singh, Navneet, Kumar, Vikas, Ranjan, Rahul, Caleb, John T. D., Gayen, Subrata, Das, Moumita & Dey, Rushati, 2019, The genus Mustilizans Yang, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Endromidae) in India with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4624 (2), pp. 183-190 : 184

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7680CB3E-2513-4374-A94A-A767507E3282

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5942867

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C5AA77-153A-C205-FF40-CA75E3384D4E

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Plazi

scientific name

Mustilizans Yang, 1995
status

 

Genus Mustilizans Yang, 1995

Type species: Mustilizans drepaniformis Yang, 1995 : Insects of Baishanzu Mountain : 356, figs. 5, 11 (by original designation) .

Diagnosis. Members of the genus are large, body stout; antennae pectinate basally and filiform distally; forewing with falcate apex; wing coloration usually sandy-grey to rosy-grey with yellowish markings; uncus bifid, gnathos absent; valva with blunt apex; saccus short and broad; aedeagus elongate and tubular, vesica with numerous thick, needle-shaped cornuti grouped in clusters. Females larger than the males; wing coloration and pattern with a reddish-brown ground colour ( Zolotuhin 2007; Wang et al. 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Bombycidae

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