Camarotoscena bianchii Loginova

Fig. 5 E

Camarotoscena bianchii Loginova (1975 b): 56.

Camarotoscena pamirica Baeva (1983 a): 256; syn. nov.

Camarotoscena wulingshanica Li (2011): 383; syn. nov.

Camarotoscena wutaishanica Li (2011): 384; syn. nov.

Camarotoscena xinjiangica Li (2011): 381; syn. nov.

Material examined.

China • ♀ holotype of C. xinjiangica; Xinjiang, Wulumuqi, Nanshan; 1400–2000 m a. s. l.; 19. ix. 1979, leg. F. Li; CAU • ♀ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype of C. wulingshanica; Hebei, Xinglong, Wulingshan; 1750 m a. s. l.; leg. J. Yang; CAU • ♀ holotype of C. wutaishanica; Shanxi, Wutaishan, Nanshansi; 1880 m a. s. l.; 23. vii. 1981; leg. F. Li; CAU .

Description.

Description of adult by Loginova (1975 b) and Luo (2016). Fifth instar immature unknown.

Distribution.

China (Hebei, Shanxi, Xinjiang; as Camarotoscena wulingshanica, C. wutaishanica, C. xinjiangica (Li 2011)), Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia (Siberia, Tuva), Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan (Loginova 1972, 1975 b; Baeva 1985; Gegechkori and Loginova 1990), Tadzhikistan (as Camarotoscena pamirica (Baeva 1983 b)) .

Host plant.

Populus laurifolia Ledeb., P. usbekistanica Kom. ( Salicaceae) (Gegechkori and Loginova 1990), not confirmed by the presence of immatures.

Comment.

Camarotoscena bianchii is characterised by the female subgenital plate which is square in lateral view (Fig. 5 E). According to the original description by Baeva (1983 a) this is also the case in C. pamirica . We consider the two conspecific and formally synonymise the two. The square subgenital plate is found also in C. wulingshanica, C. wutaishanica and C. xinjiangica which were synonymised by Luo (2016) with C. bianchii, synonymies which are not valid according to Article 8 of the ICZN (1999). For this reason we formally propose the synonymies here. The record of C. speciosa from Mongolia by Klimaszewski (1973) refers to C. bianchii (Gegechkori and Loginova 1990) .