Shinploca is a monotypic moth genus in the family Drepanidae. Its only species, Shinploca shini, is found in the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Shaanxi, south-eastern Russia and the Korean Peninsula. Both the genus and species were described by Sung-Soo Kim in 1995.[1][2]

Shinploca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Drepanidae
Subfamily: Thyatirinae
Genus: Shinploca
Kim, 1995
Species:
S. shini
Binomial name
Shinploca shini
Kim, 1995

References edit

  1. ^ Jiang, Nan; Yang, Chao; Xue, Dayong; Han, Hongxiang (March 2015). "An updated checklist of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) from China, with descriptions of one new species". Zootaxa. 3941 (1): 1–48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.1. PMID 25947492.
  2. ^ Kim, S. S. (1995). "Description of a new genus and a new species of Thyatiridae (Lepidoptera) from Korea". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 46 (1): 23–25.