XX. Dalailama Staudinger, 1896 (FIGURES 36–37) Dalailama Staudinger, 1896, Dt. ent. Z. Iris 8 (2): 303. Type species: Dalailama bifurca Staudinger, 1896, by monotypy. Dailalama: Staudinger, 1901, Cat. Lepid. palaearct. Faunengeb. (1): 128. Incorrect subsequent spelling. Deilelamia: Pagenstecher, 1909, Geschichte eur. Schmett.: 433. Incorrect subsequent spelling. Diagnosis. Characterized by khaki or maroon-brown ground colour, antenna in male pectinate basally and filiform distally, fore- and hindwings with complex patterns of lines, discal cell with a black spot outlined in white, uncus bifid, a dark protuberance on the valva. Female similar to male but antenna filiform and forewing apex slightly falcate. Distribution. Sino-Himalayan Region. Remarks. This genus was established without being placed in a family. Staudinger (1901) included it in Bombycidae, a placement with which Grünberg (1911) and Fletcher & Nye (1982) agreed. We concur and here record two species from China (Map 20). Map 20. Distribution of Dalailama spp. mainly in China.

Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716