Leucoma candida

Leucoma candida (Staudinger, 1892) (Figs 5���6, 20, 30) Stilpnotia salicis var. candida Staudinger, 1892: 308; Bryk, 1934: 115. Stilpnotia candida: Swinhoe, 1922: 462; Chao, 1978: 54. Liparis salicis: Bremer, 1864: 41. Leucoma candida: Kozhanchikov, 1950: 345; Inoue, 1956: 156; Chao, 2003: 286; Wang et al., 2015: 583. Diagnosis. The species is often confused with L. salicis due to the similarity of superficial characters, but can be easily separated from the latter by the following characters: main stem of antenna white, with a black-brown stripe; vesica of aedeagus with numerous minute denticles; female genitalia with a M-shaped signum within bursa. Material examined. 1♂ 1♀, Tiantai Mountain National Forest Park, Feng County, Baoji City, Shaanxi, 6��� 13.VIII.2018, leg M. Wang, Z.P. Miao. 2♂, Huameiguang, Liuba County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi, 10-12.VIII.2018, leg M. Wang, Z.P. Miao. 1♂, Heping Village, Caoke Towns, Shimian County, Ya���an City, Sichuan, China, 26��� 27.VII.2017, leg M. Wang, Z.P. Miao. 3♂ 2♀, Tacheng Town, Weixi County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, 15-18.VII.2018, leg M. Wang, Z.P. Miao. Distribution. China (Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu), North Korea, Japan, Russia.
Published as part of Xie, Linzhe, Wang, Ming, Chen, Yusi & Wang, Houshuai, 2022, Review of the genus Leucoma H��bner, 1822 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, with description of two new species, pp. 361-380 in Zootaxa 5115 (3) on pages 364-365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6358370
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