. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. The prciniaginal stages of Striphnopteryx edulis (Boisduval, 1847) 205. Fig. 31. Pupa of Striphnoptetyx edulis, lateral (female) and ventral (male) views (scale bar 10 mm). Some very short micro-setae are also present: mD (MD) and mSD (MSD) close together in front of Dl on T2-T3 and A1-A8, on A1-A8 mSD2 anterodorsally of spiracle; mV group below SV, on T2-T3 in front of coxa, on Al, A2 and A7-A9 in front of SV, on A2 double, on A3-A6 in fi-ont of prolegs. DISCUSSION As typical of the family, the procoxae of the larva are con- nate. Lemaire & Minet (1999
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. The prciniaginal stages of Striphnopteryx edulis (Boisduval, 1847) 205. Fig. 31. Pupa of Striphnoptetyx edulis, lateral (female) and ventral (male) views (scale bar 10 mm). Some very short micro-setae are also present: mD (MD) and mSD (MSD) close together in front of Dl on T2-T3 and A1-A8, on A1-A8 mSD2 anterodorsally of spiracle; mV group below SV, on T2-T3 in front of coxa, on Al, A2 and A7-A9 in front of SV, on A2 double, on A3-A6 in fi-ont of prolegs. DISCUSSION As typical of the family, the procoxae of the larva are con- nate. Lemaire & Minet (1999: 330) considered this char- acter as an autapomoiphy of the family, but Oberprieler et al. (2003: 109) reported free procoxae to occur in some genera of the Phiala section of Striphnopteryginae. The insertion of the primary setae in deep sockets (Fig. 28) ap- pears to be an unusual and perhaps phylogenetically sig- nificant character, as it also occurs in other eupterotid gen- era studied {Apha Walker, 1856, Palirisa Moore, 1884, Pseudojana Hampson, 1893, Hoplojana Aurivillius, 1901). However, the insertion of the primary setae needs to be studied more closely in other eupterotid genera and also in other bombycoid families. Some other characters possibly can be considered di- agnostic for the genus Striphnopteiyx: in the larva, the mo- lar surface of the mandible is shovel-shaped and un- toothed; the SV-verrucae on segments A3-6 are well de- veloped (contrary to the condition in Pseudojana incan- descens - see Pugaev & Zolotuhin 2011); the bases of SD- Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (2): 200-206 setae are transfonned into strong, sclerotized veraicae with a large number of subprimary setae (in Palirisa - see Pu- gaev & Thieu, 2011 - and in Pseudojana they are repre- sented by a single strong seta only); all groups of setae have subprimary setae admixed; in the pupa, a typical cre- master is absent, but the terminal segments of the abdomen are densely denticulate (as in Ps
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