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Issue: Vol. 4127 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.1.12
Page range: 192–200
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 2

A review of the Japanese species of the choragella-group of the genus Morophaga Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with description of a new species

Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan.
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan.
Lepidoptera Basidiomycota Morophaga plana Morophaga fasciculata Scardiinae taxonomy

Abstract

The taxonomy of the Japanese species of the choragella-group of the genus Morophaga is reviewed. Previously, one species, Morophaga fasciculata Robinson, 1986, was recorded from Japan. In the present study, a second species, Morophaga plana, sp. nov., is described based on adult morphological characters.

 

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