title: The Paranthrenini of mainland China (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae).
abstract: We here briefly review the Paranthrenini fauna of Mainland China and provide a checklist of 21 species for this region. We describe six new species: Paranthrene rubomacula Kallies & Owada sp. nov., Nokona opaca Kallies & Wang sp. nov., Nokona bractea Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona nanlingensis Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona spissa Kallies & Arita sp. nov., Scoliokona shimentai Kallies & Wu sp. nov. Furthermore, we provide numerous new combinations of species formerly associated with the genus Paranthrene in South East Asia, with 12 species transferred to Nokona Matsumura, 1931, 4 to Scoliokona Kallies & Arita, 1998, and one to Cyanosesia Gorbunov & Arita, 1995 (comb. nov.). The genus name Aritasesia Nakamura, 2009 (syn. nov.) is considered a junior subjective synonym of Nokona Matsumura, 1931.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Department of Zoology, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia.; Email: kallies@wehi.edu.au.
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kallies
authors.affiliation: Zoological Laboratories, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, 468-8502 Japan.; Email: arita.yutaka@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arita
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Nature and Science, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba, 303-0005 Japan; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Owada
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, P.R. China.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Guo-Yi
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, P.R. China.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009036:Moths / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*