2012年1月5日 星期四

過去在台灣被視為銀線尺蛾Scardamia metallaria的物種是一個新種: 柞木銀線尺蛾S. xylosmaria

文獻來源: Sato R, Fu CM, Kawakami Y. (2011) Description of a new species of the genus Scardamia Guenee (Geometridae, Ennominae) from Japan and Taiwan, with taxonomic notes on the related species. Tinea 21(5): 259-267.

Abstract
A new species, Scardamia xylomaria Sato, Fu & Kawakami, is described from Japan and Taiwan, being separated from S. aurantiacaria Bremer, 1864. The host plant is Xylosma congesta (Salicaceae). It is similar to S. metallaria Guenee, 1858, in the hindwing antemedial line. Moths and genitalia of both sexes of S. xylosmaria, S. aurantiacaria and S. metallaria are illusatrated.

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