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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 1: 11 Apr. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.1.10
Page range: 79–86
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Two new species of the genera Cidariplura Butler, 1879 and Oxaenanus Swinhoe, 1900 from Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Herminiinae)

1School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
1School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
Lepidoptera Erebidae Herminiinae

Abstract

The Herminiinae genus Cidariplura Butler, 1879 is distributed mainly in the Oriental and partially in the Palaearctic regions (Wu & Owada 2013). The characteristic features of the genus are the structure of the labial palpus, and male foretibia without sheath covering tarsus and containing a tuft of long hairs.

 

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