Iragoides Hering, 1931

Wu, Jun, Solovyev, Alexey V. & Han, Hui-Lin, 2022, Two new species and two unrecorded species of Limacodidae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea) from Xizang, China, ZooKeys 1100, pp. 71-85 : 71

Genus Iragoides Hering, 1931

Iragoides Hering, 1931, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 10: 671 (key), 709. Type species (original designation): Miresa crispa Swinhoe, 1890. Type locality India: Darjeeling.

Remarks.

The members of the genus Iragoides are of medium to large size, with a ground colour of reddish brown; the obvious silvery patches are always present on the foreleg and the base of the antennae. In the male genitalia, the uncus and gnathos are well developed; the juxta usually has a pair of finger-shaped lateral processes. Iragoides contains four known species to date: I. crispa (Swinhoe, 1890); I. elongata Hering, 1931; I. dudai Solovyev & Saldaitis, 2021; I. nilgirica (Hampson, 1891), three of which occur in China. Iragoides nilgirica is known only from India ( Wu and Fang 2008; Solovyev and Witt 2009; Solovyev and Saldaitis 2021).

In addition, Wu and Fang (2008), Solovyev and Witt (2009), and Solovyev and Saldaitis (2021) all presented the male adult of Iragoides elongata in their studies after it was described and illustrated with a hand-drawn adult by Hering (1931). Wu and Fang (2008) also listed both the male and female genitalia. However, as the original description of this species was relatively simple and lacked the description of genitalia, we will redescribe this species below.