PENTATEUCHA STUENINGI Owada & Kitching, 1997

Adult male Pentateucha stueningi, Tianmu Shan, Zhejiang, China. HOLOTYPE. Photo: © M. Owada

TAXONOMY

Pentateuch stueningi Owada & Kitching, 1997, in Kitching, Owada & Brechlin, Tinea 15: 88. Type locality: China, Chekiang [Zhejiang], west Tien-mu-shan [Tianmu Shan].


ADULT DESCRIPTION AND VARIATION

Male as per illustration.


ADULT BIOLOGY

This species flies at altitude during winter and early spring in the isolated warm temperate mountains of Zhejiang and neighbouring Anhui.


FLIGHT-TIME

China: Information not available.


EARLY STAGES

OVUM: Unknown.

LARVA: Unknown.

PUPA: Unknown.

Larval hostplants. Unknown.


PARASITOIDS

Unknown.


LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

China: Anhui (Huang Shan); Zhejiang (Tianmu Shan).


GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION

Endemic to a small, mountainous area of southeastern China.


Global distribution of Pentateucha stueningi. Map: © BMNH.

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AFFILIATION

Unknown.


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