The first species of the Eupterotidae described from Vietnam was Pseudojana vitalisi Candèze, 1927 that pointed from Indochina. The generic attribution was obviousely wrong but the type of the species has not been found so far and tentavily the taxon is placed into the genus Eupterote Hübner,1820. In this paper, a modified system of the family is used. A few preliminary changes and additions are made in the text of this work below. | HỘI NGHỊ KHOA HỌC TOÀN QUỐC VỀ SINH THÁI VÀ TÀI NGUYÊN SINH VẬT LẦN THỨ 4 A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE EUPTEROTIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) OF VIETNAM SERGEY N. PUGAEV Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University TRAN THIEU DU Institute of Ecology and Biological Resource The family Eupterotidae contains about 60 genera, the majority of them occurring in the tropics. The classification and phylogeny of the group remains inadequately studied, and the family has never been properly and fully catalogued, having been omitted from Junk’s Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Only Forbes (1955) published a systematic checklist of the world genera, which is somewhat incomplete and now partly out of date, and Nässig & Oberprieler (2008) produced a modern catalogue based on original point of view on score of most genera. They also clarified the nomenclature of the family-group names in Eupterotidae (Nässig & Oberprieler 2007), and this catalogue was used with changes for preparing of the present paper. The first species of the Eupterotidae described from Vietnam was Pseudojana vitalisi Candèze, 1927 that pointed from Indochina. The generic attribution was obviousely wrong but the type of the species has not been found so far and tentavily the taxon is placed into the genus Eupterote Hübner,1820. To date, no one work was devoted specially to Vietnamese Eupterotidae, and only in the articles of L. Candèze (1927), J. de Joannis (1929) and A. Lemée (1950) we found information and short lists of species mostly faulty identified. Some species were listed recently by vietnamese colleagues as defoliators: Plant Protection Research Institute (1976) and Tran Thieu Du (2009). I. MATERIAL AND METHODS Most of the material for this paper was studied in Museum Witt, München (MWM) and Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Also, special field trip were undertaken during 2007-2009 by authors in different parts of Vietnam. As a result of this preliminary study, 27 species of Eupterotidae are listed from Vietnam. In .
