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ron), 1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5773 (BMH). The unique specimen 

 is badly rubbed, but the wings are less damaged and the genitalia 

 are very characteristic. 



Yponomeutidae 



Key to the Philippine Genera of Yponomeutidae 



1. Hindwing with a hyaline subbasal patch Yponomeuta 



Hindwing without sucli patch 2 



2. Hindwing with veins 6 and 7 stalked, 7 connected with 8 beyond cell. 



Anticrates 

 Hindwing with 7 not connected with 8 3 



3. Hindwing with vein 4 absent Prays 



Hindwing with vein 4 present 4 



4. Forewing with veins 7 and 8 separate Atteva 



Forewing with veins 7 and 8 stalked Protorhiza, new genus 



Yponomeuta Latreille, 1802 



Yponomeuta Latreille, 1802, Hist. nat. Crust. Ins., vol. 3, p. 417. — Fletcher, 



1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 238. 

 Yponomeuta Latreille, 1796, Precis caract. gen., p. 146 (not binom.). 

 Hyponomeuta Sodoffsky, 1837, Bull. Soc. Natur. Moscou, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 94 



(emend.). 

 Hyphantes Hiibner, 1806, Tentamen, p. 2 (not descr.). 

 Erminea Haworth, 1811, Lep. Brit., vol. 3, p. 512. 



Nygmia Hiibner, 1826, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge, p. 412 (preocc). 

 Teinoplila Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen Inseln, vol. 2, 



p. 701, pi. 66, fig. 16.— Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., 



vol. 11, p. 217. 



Type species : Yponomeuta evonymella Linnaeus (Europe) . 



Key to the Philippine Species of Yponomeuta 



1. Forewing black with white spots . . . . Y. interruptella, new combination 

 Forewing dark grey with black spots Y. melanaster 



Yponomeuta interruptella (Sauber, 1902) 



Figures 374-376, 476, 730 



Teinoptila interruptella Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen 



Inseln, vol. 2, p. 701, pi. 66, fig. 16 (cf 9, N. Luzon). 

 Yponomeuta inter ruptell us. — Meyrick, 1907, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. 32, p. 77 (New Guinea). 

 Hyponomeuta interruptellus. — Turner, 1923, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 



vol. 47, p. 169 (cf descr., Queensland). 

 Hyponomeuta interruptella. — Meyrick, 1914, in Aurivillius, Lepidopterorura 



Catalogus, pars 19, p. 19. 



Distribution: Philippine Is., Luzon; New Guinea; Queensland. 



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