A new species of Rhodambulyx Mell, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Southwest Chongqing, China

Abstract

A new species of the genus Rhodambulyx Mell, 1939, Rhodambulyx xinyuae sp. nov., is described from Simianshan Nature Reserve in Southwest Chongqing, China. This species is similar to R. davidi Mell, 1939 and R. kitchingi Brechlin, 2015 in habitus, but can be distinguished by a different wing pattern, male genitalia structure and DNA barcode sequence. In addition, Rhodambulyx namvui Eitschberger & Nguyen, 2017 is removed from synonymy with R. kitchingi and synonymized instead with R. davidi, although whether it would be better treated as a subspecies of R. davidi requires further investigation.

Review of the Narrow-Banded Hawkmoth, Neogurelca montana (Rothschild & Jordan, 1915) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in China, with Morphological and Phylogenetic Analysis

“…The legs were homogenized in protease buffer containing 450 µL STE (10 mmol/L Tris-HCl, 1 mmol/L EDTA, 100 mmol/L NaCl, pH = 8.0), 25 µL Proteinase K (20 mg/mL), and 75 µL SDS (10%) and incubated at 55 • C for 12 h to rehydrate and lyse the tissue. The subsequent extraction protocol followed Xu et al [18] and the resultant genomic DNA was preserved at −40 • C.…”

“…DNA amplification followed Xu et al [18]. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out in a 25 µL system using the TaKaRa Ex Taq Kit (TaKaRa Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Dalian, China).…”

Annual report of new taxa for Chinese Lepidoptera in 2022

“…个属。新种(新亚种)分布: 云南4种, 贵州4种, 广西 2种, 广东2种, 海南2种, 湖南1种, 湖北1种, 陕西1 种 (Huang SY et al, 2022c;Lang, 2022a, b, c, d;Lang & Ding, 2022a, b;Monastyrskii et al, 2022)。 发表天蛾科、卷蛾科和透翅蛾科新种各3个。 其中天蛾科新种隶属于六点天蛾属(Marumba)和红 鹰天鹅属(Rhodambulyx), 分布: 四川2种, 重庆1种 Xu ZB et al, 2022)。透翅蛾科3…”