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Issue: Vol. 2511 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2511.1.2
Page range: 22–38
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Descriptions of three new species of Ypsolopha Latreille (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from East Asia, redescription of Y. contractella (Caradja) and a checklist of East Asian Ypsolopha

Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science, pr. 100-letiya, 159, Vladivostok 690022, Russia
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150040, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing 100094, China
Lepidoptera Yponomeutoidea Ypsolophidae Ypsolopha fauna taxonomy new species new synonymy East Asia Korea China Japan Russia

Abstract

Three new species of Ypsolopha Latreille are described from East Asia: Y. helva Sohn et Wu, n. sp., Y. sordida Sohn et Wu, n. sp., both from China; Y. pseudoparallela Sohn et Ponomarenko, n. sp. from Japan. Redescription of Y. contractella (Caradja), a poorly known species, is given with the first illustrations of genitalia of both species. The new combination, Ypsolopha diana (Caradja), transferred from Cerostoma, is proposed. Exclusion of Cerostoma xenicopis Meyrick from Ypsolopha is suggested with notes of its lectotype. The following new synonyms are proposed: Ypsolopha hebeiensis Yang, 1977 syn. n. = Y. leuconotella (Snellen, 1884); Ypsolopha affinitella (Staudinger, 1892) syn. n. = Y. dentella (Fabricius, 1775). Eight species are newly reported from China: Ypsolopha acuminata (Butler), Y. cristata Moriuti, Y. dentella (Fabricius), Y. japonica Moriuti, Y. nemorella (Linnaeus), Y. parenthesella (Linnaeus), Y. satellitella (Staudinger) and Y. yasudai Moriutu; two species are new to China and Korea, Y. amoenella (Christoph) and Y. asperella (Linnaeus); Y. contractella (Caradja) is new to Japan, Korea and China. A checklist of 42 species of Ypsolopha recorded from East Asia is provided.

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