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Synegiodes hyriaria

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Synegiodes hyriaria (Walker, 1866)

Figs 12, 23, 33, 42

Anisodes hyriaria Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1617. Holotype ♀, India: North Hindostan (BMNH).

Erythrolophus hyriarius Hampson, 1895, Fauna Br. India (Moths). 3: 453. [Emendation of hyriaria Walker.] Synegiodes hyriaria: Prout, 1934, in Strand, Lepid. Cat. 61: 48.

Diagnosis. Externally, S. hyriaria is distinguished from S. elasmlatus by the more distinct transverse lines and the larger discal spots. For more detailed differences of external features and genitalia characters see under S. elasmlatus.

Material examined. CHINA: Tibet (IZCAS): 5 6 3♀, Zham, 2200–2400 m, 28.V–30.VII.1975, coll. Huang Fusheng (slide No. 3309); 1 6, Nyalam, Zham, 2250 m, 4.V.1974, coll. Zhang Xuezhong; 1 6 1♀, Gyirong, Xiao Gyirong, 2400–2800 m, 22, 26.VII.1975, coll. Huang Fusheng; 2 6 1♀, Gyirong, 15.VIII.1982, coll. Wang Jia (slide No. 3308); 1 6, Gyirong, 18.VIII.1984, coll. Yan Zhaoxing; 2♀, Gyirong Gongshe, 26.VII.1984, 16.VIII.1984, coll. Yan Zhaoxing et al.; 1 6, Langxian, 3100 m, 5.VII.1981, coll. Chen Tailu; 1♀, Mêdog, Baibung, 900 m, 31.VIII.1974, coll. Huang Fusheng; 2♀, Mêdog, Maniweng, 930–1000 m, 24.VIII.1974, 12.IX.1974, coll. Huang Fusheng; 2♀, Mêdog, A’niqiao, 1060 m, 12–13.VIII.2006, coll. Lang Songyun; 2 6, Mêdog, Hanmi, 2095 m, 11.VIII.2006, coll. Lang Songyun; 1♂, Nyingchi, Tangmai bridge, 2037 m, 14.VI.2016, coll. Li Xinxin. India (ZFMK): 3 6 2♀, Tatacta, Pedong, Darjeeling, ex coll. E. Wehrli; 2 6 1♀, West Bengal, Sikkim, Darjeeling, leg. W. Thomas; 1 6, Arunachal Pradesh, Dist. Along, 2000 m, 6–12.VII.2010, leg. Bretschneider (dissected).

Distribution. China (Tibet), India, Myanmar (Prout (1938: 152), Nepal (Inoue (1982): 137).

Notes

Published as part of Cui, Le, Jiang, Nan, Stüning, Dieter & Han, Hongxiang, 2018, A review of Synegiodes Swinhoe, 1892 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), with description of two new species, pp. 259-274 in Zootaxa 4387 (2) on page 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1187402

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  • Walker, F. (1866) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, part 35, 1535 - 2040. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 58221
  • Hampson, G. F. (1895) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, (Moths). Vol. 3. Geometridae. Taylor and Francis, London, xxviii + 546 pp.
  • Inoue, H. (1982) Geometridae of Eastern Nepal based on the collection of the Lepidopterological Research Expedition to Nepal Himalaya by the Lepidopterological Society of Japan in 1963. Part II. Bulletin Faculty of Domestic Sciences of Otsuma Women's University, 18, 129 - 190.