Mummu Solovyev & Witt, 2009, new genus record for China

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 Mummu Solovyev & Witt, 2009, new genus record for China

Mummu Solovyev & Witt, 2009, Entomofauna, suppl. 16: 182. Type species (original designation): Mummu aerata Solovyev & Witt, 2009. Type locality N. Vietnam: Lao Cai (Mt. Fan-si-pan W-Seite).

Remarks.

The genus Mummu is also a small, recently erected genus. The obvious diagnostic features are the forewing with dark brown ground colour, a pale distal region along with the outer margin separated by a narrow darker band with a lighter coloured thin and wavy fascia running from the tornus to the costa near the apex. In the male genitalia, the juxta is strongly modified, the presence of a large, finger-shaped, hairy right process of the juxta, and the valvae without saccular processes are two diagnostic features in this genus. The genus presently includes M. aerata Solovyev & Witt, 2009 and M. cuprea (Moore, 1879); the latter was transferred from Pseudonirmides Holloway, 1986 ( Hering 1931; Holloway 1986; Yoshimoto 1994; Solovyev and Witt 2009). We collected four males of M. aerata from southeastern Xizang and southwestern Yunnan; it also indicates that the genus occurs in China.