Leucoma niveata ( Walker, 1865 )

Xie, Linzhe, Wang, Ming, Chen, Yusi & Wang, Houshuai, 2022, Review of the genus Leucoma Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5115 (3), pp. 361-380 : 370

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.3.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6362252
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scientific name	Leucoma niveata ( Walker, 1865 )
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Treatment

Leucoma niveata ( Walker, 1865) View in CoL

( Chao, 1978: Plate VII, Fig. 67; Chao, 2003: Fig. 170)

Euproctis niveata Walker, 1865: 350 View in CoL .

Redoa niveata: Swinhoe, 1922: 465 View in CoL .

Caviria pura: Collenette, 1932: 48.

Stilpnotia niveata: Matsumura, 1933: 151 View in CoL .

Leucoma niveata: Bryk, 1934: 130 View in CoL ; Chao, 2003: 290.

Diagnosis. The species is similar to L. ochripes , but can be easily differentiated from the latter by its frons covered with black hairs, the ventral side of abdomen with a black bent near terminal of ventral surface.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Taiwan), Indonesia.