Agalope Walker 1854
- 1. S. Huang @ leibniz-lib. de; huangsiyao 2007 @ aliyun. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9859 - 9212
- 2. eterusia @ me. com
- 3. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China 1 - 27 - 21, Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154 - 0024 Japan & fanxiaol 66 @ scau. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1176 - 7667
- 4. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China 1 - 27 - 21, Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154 - 0024 Japan & minwang @ scau. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5834 - 4058
- 5. M. Espeland @ leibniz-lib. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6800 - 4783
Description
Genus Agalope Walker, 1854
Type species: Agalope basalis Walker, 1854, by monotypy (currently a junior synonym of Chalcosia hyalina Kollar, 1844)
Diagnosis. Small to large-sized moths with variable forewing pattern, characterized by the combination of the following features: 1) Forewing base bears an orange patch extending from costa to the base of cell 1A+2A. 2) Forewing veins M 2 and M 3 stalked. 3) Forewing bears only one transverse band, sometimes vestigial or absent. 4) In male genitalia, the posterior tegumenal projection is rod-like and smooth on the surface, without process extending anteriorly. 5) The uncus is straight or gently curved distally downwards in lateral view. 6) The juxta is U-shaped, the juxta lobes are relatively short (ca. 0.5 × posterior tegumenal projection length, except for geoffi species-group). 7) In female genitalia the ostial plate/lamella postvaginalis is not discernible.
Distribution. Kashmir, India, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Myanmar, provinces in southwestern, central and southern mainland China, Taiwan Island and northern Vietnam.
Species-groups. hyalina, eronioides, livida and geoffi.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Zygaenidae
- Genus
- Agalope
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Agalope Walker, 1854 sec. Huang, Horie, Fan, Wang & Espeland, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1854) s. n. In: List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 2. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 279 - 581.
- Kollar, V. (1844) s. n. In: Kollar, V. & Redtenbacher, L. (1844) Aufzahlung und Beschreibung der von Freiherr C. v. Hugel auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und das Himaleygebirge gesammelten Insekten. In: Hugel, F. C. (Ed.), Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek, 4, pp. 393 - 564, pls. 1 - 28. [in German]