Bombycinae
Creators: name: Wang, Xing
name: Wang, Min
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wu, Shipher
name: Huang, Guo-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae

description: Key to the genera of Bombycinae in China
1. Forewing with strongly falcate apex.......................................................................2
- Forewing with slightly falcate or rounded apex.............................................................. 4
2. Body lightly gray or yellow; forewing with a rectangle black spot near apex; Geometridae-like day flying species with broad wings................................................................................... Rondotia Moore
- Body heavily gray or ocher; forewing with a cresent-shaped spot or without spots near apex; robust crepuscular species..... 3
3. Tornus of hindwing with a prominent recurved projection, forewing without a crescent-shaped spot near apex...................................................................................................... Gunda Walker
- Tornus of hindwing without a prominent recurved projection, forewing with a crescent-shaped spot near apex.................................................................................................. ... Bombyx Linnaeus
4. Body yellowish-brown; forewing veins connected by serrate submarginal line......................................................................................................... .. Rotunda Wang, X. & Zolotuhin, gen. nov.
- Body not yellowish-brown; forewing veins not connected by serrate submarginal line............................... 5
5. Costal and inner margins edged with yellow and black..................... Valvaribifidum Wang, X., Huang &Wang, M.
- Costal and inner margins not edged with yellow and black.....................................................6
6. Valva long slice, apex divided into two forks................................................... Ernolatia Walker
- Valva not long slice, apex not divided into two forks.......................................................... 7
7. Valva strongly developed...............................................................................8
- Valva small to completely reduced....................................................................... 10
8. Dark-colored, medium-sized species; uncus single, thin and straight; socii paired and sclerotized............................................................................................................... Triuncina Dierl
- Mostly whitish species; uncus hooked or bifurcate; socii not sclerotized.......................................... 9
9. Uncus hooked............................................................................. Bivincula Dierl
- Uncus bifurcate....................................................................... .. Gnathocinara Dierl
10. Uncus bifurcate....................................................................... .. Penicillifera Dierl
- Uncus not divided.................................................................................... 11
11. Uncus hooked............................................................................. Ocinara Walker
- Uncus straight............................................................................ Trilocha Moore
description: Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716