Eilema

Abstract: species are recorded from Guangdong; they were collected in Nanling Mts including 12 new species and one subspecies: Katha nankushanica sp nov, K magnata nanlingica ssp nov, Dolgoma nigrocribrata sp nov, Wittia yazakii sp nov, Gampola sinica sp nov, Miltochrista obscuripostica sp nov, Cyclomilta fangchenglaiae sp nov, Nudaria debilis sp nov and N vernalis sp nov, Microlithosia nanlingica sp nov, as well as three new species of the new genus Danielithosia gen nov (type species Tigrioides aureolata Daniel, 1954: D fuscipennis sp nov, D consimilis sp nov, D difficilis sp nov Tigrioides limayca Daniel, 1954, T pallens Inoue, 1980 and T immaculata (Butler, 1880) are transferred into Danielithosia Several species are transferred into another genera: Eilema stigma Fang, 2000 and Oeonistis subnigra Leech, 1899 into Asiapistosia gen nov, Lithosia conformis Walker, 1854, L chekiangica Daniel, 1954, L magnata Matsumura, 1927 - into Katha Moore, 1878, Lithosia nigripars Walker, 1856 and Ilema tecta Wileman, 1910 - into Ghoria Moore, 1878, Lithosia japonica Leech, (1889), L hunanica Daniel, 1954 - into Manulea Wallengren, 1863, Systropha klapperichi Daniel, 1954 - into Wittia de Freina, 1980, Eilema umbripuncta (de Joannis, 1928) - into Microlithosia Daniel, 1954, Eugoa roseivena Hampson, 1894 - into Planovalvata gen nov, Miltochrista dimidiata Fang, 1991, M compar Fang, 1991, M sinuata Fang, 1991 and M longstriga Fang, 1991 - into Barsine Walker, 1854 Paraona Moore, 1878 is restored in the generic status from a synonym of Ghoria Moore, 1878 Stictane rectilinea chinesica Draudt, 1931 is raised to the specific status

Abstract: We examined 34 lepidopteran species belonging to 12 families to determine presence and prevalence of microsporidian pathogens. The insects were collected from May 2009 to July 2012 from 44 sites in Bulgaria. Nosema species were isolated from Archips xylosteana, Tortrix viridana, Operophtera brumata, Orthosia cerasi, and Orthosia cruda. Endoreticulatus sp. was isolated from Eilema complana. The prevalence of all isolates in their hosts was low and ranged from 1.0% to 5.3%. Phylogenetic analyses of the new isolates based on SSU rDNA are presented.

Abstract: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF LEPIDOPTERA IN SOURTHERN ITALY IV. Heterocera (Bombyces ET Sphinges) OF APULIA AND LUCANIA By this first work on the Heterocera the author gives some results of researches on the Lepidopterofauna, carried out in Apulia and Lucania during 1967-77. In the first part are described the main localities explored, except the ones already dealt with in a former paper on the Rhopalocera. In the second part the collected species are listed with some data upon geonemy, frequency and, in the case of agricultural and foresta! interesting species, with regard to the damages they have clone. There are also listed the species mentioned by other authors for Apulia and Lucania, and not collected during the present researches. The species l i s t follows FoRSTER & WoHLFARTH's terminology , w i t h some necessary revisions and the addition of species since now uncollected in Centrai Europe. 182 species are listed (45,8% of the species known as living in Continental ltaly). Eilema rungsi Toulg. is reported for the first time in Europe; Orgyia ericae Germ., Notodonta tiefi Bartel and Hypopta thrips Hb. as new in Italy; Penestoglossa dardoinella Mill. are mentioned for the first time in Continental Italy; Eilema depressa Esp. and Celama subchlamydula Stgr. are mentioned for the first time in Centrai and Southern Italy . Also in Southern Italy are mentioned for the first time: Nola cucullatella L., Ocneria prolai Htg., Nudaria mundana L., Apaidia rufeola Rbr., Eilema unita Schifi., Eilema lurideola Zinck., Chelis maculosa Germ., Rhyparia purpurata L., Hyphoraia testu- dinaria Fourc., Pelosia muscerda Hfn., Pelosia obtusa H.-S., Sphinx ligustri L., Hemaris t i t y u s L., Malacosoma castrensis L., Malacosoma franconica Esp., T richiura crataegi L., Macrothylacia rubi L., Acanthopsyche atra L., Amictoides sera Wisk., Phalacropteryx api- formis Rossi, Fumea crassiorelia Brd., Pryropteron chrysidiformis Esp., Hypopta caestrum Hb., Phragmatecia castaneae Hb. Most of the other species here reported are not yet mentioned in Apulia or Lucania.

Abstract: This review details the Korean species of the Eilema group in the subfamily Arctiinae of Erebidae: 19 species in five genera (Manulea, Collita, Katha, Dolgoma, and Wittia), a new species (Collita hwacheonensis Bayarsaikhan & Bae, sp. nov.), and an unrecorded species [C. vetusta aegrota (Butler 1877)]. All species are diagnosed, and figures of the adults and genitalia and a key to species based on male genital structure of Eilema group in South Korea are included.