Similipepsini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia: Sesiidae
Subfamilia: Tinthiinae
Tribus: Similipepsini
Genus: Gasterostena
Species: (4):
G. funebris – G. ikedai – G. rubricincta – G. vietnamica
Name

Gasterostena Arita & Gorbunov, 2003

Type species: Gasterostena vietnamica Arita & Gorbunov, 2003
References

Arita, Yutaka & Oleg G. Gorbunov, 2003: New taxa of wasp-waisted clearing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Similipepsini) from Vietnam. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 54 (1): 11–19. full article: [1]
Checklist of the Sesiidae of the world [2]
Kallies, Axel & Yutaka Arita, 2006: New wasp-waisted clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Thinthiinae) from Vietnam and Taiwan. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 57 (4): 371–377. Full article: [3]

Links

Checklist of the Sesiidae of the world [4]

Gasterostena is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae.
Species

Gasterostena funebris Kallies & Arita, 2006
Gasterostena ikedai Arita & Gorbunov, 2003
Gasterostena rubricincta Kallies & Arita, 2006
Gasterostena vietnamica Arita & Gorbunov, 2003

References

Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World Archived March 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine