Trilocha Moore, [1860]

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, A new species of genus Trilocha Moore, [1860] from Great Nicobar Island, India (Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea, Bombycidae), Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 586-592 : 587

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.10
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4908179
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scientific name	Trilocha Moore, [1860]
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Genus Trilocha Moore, [1860] View in CoL in Horsfield, T. & Moore, F. (1858–9)

Trilocha Moore, [1860] View in CoL : 382.

Type species. Naprepa varians Walker, 1855 (by monotypy). TL: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka] .

Distribution. Oriental and Palearctic Regions ( Wang et al. 2015).

Diagnostic characters. The genus Trilocha Moore is characterized by the following attributes: wings with outer margins of fore- and hindwings having long fringes; in male genitalia, uncus is long, finger-shaped; gnathos reduced; saccus long and thick; aedeagus slender, curved near both ends; 8th sternite with posterior margin medially depressed; anterior margin with two long processes ( Wang et al. 2015).