Mirina is a genus of Lepidoptera from the Endromidae family . Endemic and relict group from East Asia . Previously stood out as a separate family Mirinidae Kozlov , 1985, reduced in 2011 to synonyms for Endromidae [1] [2] .
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Mirrorina confucius | ||||||||||||||||
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| Mirina Staudinger, 1892 |
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Description
Butterflies are medium sized. The length of the front wing does not exceed 20 mm on average. Fore wings with a rounded apex, arcuately curved to the rear edge. R-Cu cell is short, vein M 1 departs from its upper corner. Liquid M 2 is located approximately in the middle between M 1 and M 3 . The background of the wings is dirty white, with grayish-olive lines and spots. The front wings of both sexes with a velvety black discoid spot [3] .
Caterpillars develop on bushes of the honeysuckle family.
Systematics and range
Representatives of the genus are common in East Asia. The genus has only three species. At one time, the genus was allocated to the subfamily Endromidae , but in 1985 it was separated into a separate family, and in 2011 it was again synonymous.
The ranges of all three species are isolated from each other: one species lives in Primorye and North Korea , the other in the mountains of Central China , the third in the mountains of northern Indochina and southwest China. This indicates the relict nature of the distribution.
Views
The first and most famous representative of the genus Mirina christophi (Staudinger, 1892) Spring view. Distributed in Primorye , Northeast China and North Korea [4] .
Mirina fenzeli (MELL, 1938) Distributed in the high forests of Central China.
Mirina confucius (ZOLOTUHIN & WITT, 2000) The largest and most distinctive species of the family. Known from the mountain forests of North Vietnam (from where it was described), Northern Thailand and Southwest China.
Notes
- β Andreas Zwick, Jerome C. Regier, Charles Mitter, Michael P. Cummings (2011). Increased gene sampling yields robust support for higher-level clades within Bombycoidea (Lepidoptera) . - Systematic Entomology (2011), 36, 31-43. DOI: 10.1111 / j.1365-3113.2010.00543.x
- β Van Nieukerken, EJ et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness . " Zootaxa , vol. 3148: 212-221
- β Ler P. A. Identifier of insects of the Russian Far East. T.5. Caddis flies and lepidopterans. Part 2 Vladivostok. Dalnauka, 1999
- β HUANG, G.-H. & M. WANG: First record of Mirina confucius from China (Lepidoptera, Mirinidae). TINEA 17 (3): 121-122