Taxonomic notes on the genus Orthobrachia Warren, with description of a new species from China and Thailand (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

By

Huang, Guohua
Su, Zi-You
Stüning, Dieter

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

609

Pages

121-137

Subjects

Ennominae , Orthobrachia hirowatarii sp. n , Sichuan province , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.609.8288

 

Abstract

All seven members of the genus Orthobrachia Warren, 1895 are recorded, with description of a new species from Sichuan Province, China and N. Thailand, including O. latifasciata (Moore, 1888) and O. flavidior (Hampson, 1898) from northern India, Nepal and China, O. tenebrosa Yazaki, 1992 from Nepal and India, O. owadai Yazaki, 1992 from India, O. simpliciata Yazaki, 2002 from China, and O. maoershanensis Huang, Xin & Wang, 2003 from South China. A key to the Orthobrachia species is provided, along with a distributional map of all nominal species. The type specimens of the new species are deposited in Hunan Agricultural University (China), South China Agricultural University (China) and Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany).