Fanghua Town, Luliang County, found a new species of moth, Wen's Golden Moss

According to a report by the Luliang County Radio and Television Station, Wen Shaokui, a scientific and technological worker in Qujing City and a researcher of lepidoptera insects, found a moth in Fanghua Town, Luliang County, and after expert dissection and identification, it was determined to be a new species that was not named. Subsequently, the moth was named Wen's golden moss moth according to the name of the discoverer.

The appraisers of Wen's golden moss moth were Huang Siyao, a graduate student of South China Agricultural University, and George E. R. J. Orhant, a French lepidoptera scholar, and the corresponding author was Professor Wang Min.

The Wen's golden moss moth model specimen is preserved in the Herbarium of South China Agricultural University, and the Wen Shaokui Butterfly Museum of Yunnan Ruida Company also has a full set of specimens of wen's golden moss moth in different local seasons. The current known distribution of the new species is near Fanghua Town in Luliang County and near the Golden Temple in Kunming.

Mr. Wen's Golden Moss Moth

The name of the Wen's golden moss moth expresses recognition of Wen Shaokui's contribution. For more than 20 years, Wen Shaokui has been committed to the investigation and research of butterflies and moths in Qujing, and he has accumulated a large amount of precious first-hand information with the scientific spirit of rigorous learning and perseverance of a grassroots science popularization worker. Wen Shaokui Butterfly Museum has become a comprehensive exhibition hall integrating science and education, collection, ornamentation and exchange.

In September this year, the Wen Shaokui Butterfly Hall of Ruida Company was identified as a science popularization demonstration education base and a youth science popularization education base by the Luliang County Science and Technology Association and the Luliang County Customs Work Committee.