Oberthueria jiatongae

Oberthueria jiatongae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Endromidae
Genus: Oberthueria
Species: O. jiatongae
Binomial name
Oberthueria jiatongae
Zolotuhin & Xing Wang, 2013

Oberthueria jiatongae is a moth in the Endromidae family. It is found in China (Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan).

Adults have a sandy yellow ground colour, with white or ash grey suffusion. The wing pattern is dark grey and the submarginal field of the forewings is covered with dark yellow-brown to chestnut scales. These scales are brighter dark yellow to ochre-yellow on the hindwings. Adults are on wing from late April to early September in one or two generations per year.[1]

References

  1. Zolotuhin, V.V. & Xing Wang, 2013: A taxonomic review of Oberthueria Kirby, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae: Oberthuerinae) with description of three new species. zootaxa 2013 3693 (4) 465–478.
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