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Editor, Dr John Brown (John.Brown@ars.usda.govTortricidae
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168 Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A.

Editor, Dr Jean-Francois Landry
(landryjf@agr.gc.ca) Gelechioidea and other microlepidoptera
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Canadian National Collection 960 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada
Editor, Dr Lawrence Gall (Lawrence.gall@yale.edu) Noctuidae and other macrolepidoptera 
Computer Systems Office, Peabody Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 208118, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Editor, Dr Shen-Horn Yen (
shenhornyen@gmail.com) Zygaenoidea and Pyraloidea
Department of Biological Sciences National Sun Yat-Sen University 70 Lien-hai Rd. Kaohsiung City 804, Taiwan, Republic of China  
Editor, Dr Carlos Prieto (cprieto5000@yahoo.com) Lepidoptera (Butterfly)
Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad Universidad de Alicante, España

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2013

Article
Zootaxa 3664 (1): 085–091 (23 May 2013)
Two new species of Fibuloides (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from eastern Thailand

SORAYA JAIKLA, NANTASAK PINKAEW, AKEKAWAT VITHEEPRADIT & NATHAWAT KLANGSAP

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Article
Zootaxa 3652 (5): 519–532 (21 May 2013)
A survey of the genus Sorolopha Lower, 1901 in the northern part of Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Olethreutinae) 
XUANVI LE, MU JIE QI, KYU-TEK PARK & YANG-SEOP BAE
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Article
Zootaxa 3652 (1): 075–116 (15 May 2013)
Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (2). Study of a collection sample deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with descriptions of new species and a checklist

AGN
Ė ROCIENĖ & JONAS R. STONIS
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Article
Zootaxa 3652 (1): 001–059 (15 May 2013)
Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) of East Asia (1). Re-examination of the male genitalia of types deposited at the Russian Academy of Sciences

JONAS R. STONIS & AGN
Ė ROCIENĖ
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (5): 593–599 (07 May 2013)
Lamprista gen. nov. of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species 
KYU-TEK PARK & SANGMI LEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (5): 545–560 (07 May 2013)
Review of the Chinese species of Gynnidomorpha Turner, 1916 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini) 
YINGHUI SUN & HOUHUN LI
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3646 (1): 082–086 (01 May 2013)
A new species of Lasianobia Hampson, 1905 (Lepidoptera, Noctuinae)
from China
AIDAS SALDAITIS, ALESSANDRO FLORIANI, POVILAS IVINSKIS & JÁNOS BABICS

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (5): 533–553 (29 Apr. 2013)
Taxonomic review of Chinese Phalonidia Le Marchand, 1933
(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini)
YINGHUI SUN & HOUHUN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (4): 476–480 (26 Apr. 2013)
First record of the genus Megalota Diakonoff from China, with the descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)

HAILI YU & BAOGUO LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (3): 241–259 (24 Apr. 2013)
New and little known Brachodidae from tropical Asia and Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea)

AXEL KALLIES

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3640 (3): 500 (18 Apr. 2013)
Erratum: DAVID ADAMSKI (2013)Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae). Zootaxa, 3618: 001–223.
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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (2): 270–283 (17 Apr. 2013)
A new genus of pine-feeding Cochylina from the western United States and northern Mexico (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)

JOHN W. BROWN

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3635 (5): 587–590 (2 Apr. 2013)
Description of two new species of Meharia Chrétien, 1915
(Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from East Africa
ROMAN YAKOVLEV, POVILAS IVINSKIS, JOLANTA RIMSAITE & AIDAS SALDAITIS

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3631 (1): 1–74 (22 Mar. 2013)
Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae)
AKITO Y. KAWAHARA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3630 (3): 489–504 (21 Mar. 2013)
The type species of Eucosma Hübner (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
TODD M. GILLIGAN & DONALD J. WRIGHT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (2): 288–294 (13 Mar. 2013)
Recent records of scythridids from the islands of Socotra and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species
(Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)
KARI NUPPONEN & AIDAS SALDAITIS

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3619 (5): 595–600 (4 Mar. 2013)
Notes on the Paleophilotes (Inderskia) panope (Eversmann, 1851) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), a rare and little known lycaenid taxon for Europe
DMITRY V. MORGUN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (4): 460–466 (1 Mar. 2013)
A new species of the Callophrys mystaphia Miller, 1913—group from Iran (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini)
ANATOLY V. KRUPITSKY & KIRILL A. KOLESNICHENKO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (2): 101–129 (27 Feb. 2013)
Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa
SHIGEKI KOBAYASHI, GUO-HUA HUANG, AKIHIRO NAKAMURA & TOSHIYA HIROWATARI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (6): 578–586 (25 Feb. 2013)
New species of Mesenopsis Godman & Salvin, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Symmachiini) from southeastern Brazil, with an illustrated key to the genus
FERNANDO MAIA SILVA DIAS, DIEGO RODRIGO DOLIBAINA, OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE & MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3618 (1): 1–223 (25 Feb. 2013)
Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae)
DAVID ADAMSKI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (2): 165–172 (19 Feb. 2013)
Identity of Eumenodora encrypta Meyrick, a cryptic Australian moth (Lepidoptera:Gelechioidea)
LAURI KAILA

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3613 (3): 297–300 (11 Feb. 2013)
A new species of Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from China
JÁNOS BABICS, BALÁZS BENEDEK & AIDAS SALDAITIS

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3613 (1): 97–100 (7 Feb. 2013)
A new Elachista species (Lepidoptera, Elachistidae, Elachistinae) from Latvia
NIKOLAY SAVENKOV

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (2): 223–230 (29 Jan. 2013)
New Nepticulidae species (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from the Yucatán Peninsula (SE Mexico)
JONAS R. STONIS, ANDRIUS REMEIKIS, ARŪNAS DIŠKUS & REMIGIJUS NOREIKA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (2): 182–194 (29 Jan. 2013)
An annotated list of the Opostegidae of the Himalaya, with a description of Pseudopostega brevicaudata sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea)
JONAS RIMANTAS STONIS1, ANDRIUS REMEIKIS & VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (7): 595–600 (24 Jan. 2013)
Five new species of the genus Meganola Dyar, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Nolidae: Nolinae) from China
YAN-QING HU, HUI-LIN HAN, GYULA M. LÁSZLÓ, GÁBOR RONKAY & MIN WANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (7): 561–574 (24 Jan. 2013)
Notes on Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 from Southern Africa and Kenya, with description of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae)
HOUHUN LI, HUI ZHEN & WOLFRAM MEY

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3608 (4): 283–284 (21 Jan. 2013)
Notodonta dedmazai sp. nov., a new notodontid moth from Bhutan (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae)
ALEXANDER SCHINTLMEISTER

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3599 (4): 395–399 (8 Jan. 2013)
Corrections, additions, and nomenclatural notes to the recently published World catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera
JAE-CHEON SOHN1 & GERARDO LAMAS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3599 (1): 94–100 (3 Jan. 2013)
A new species of Urodeta (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) from Nepal, the first record of the genus from Asia, showing an ancient distribution pattern
VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA & JURATE DE PRINS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3599 (1): 67–77 (3 Jan. 2013)
Pacificulla gen. nov. of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from New Guinea, with descriptions of six new species
KYU-TEK PARK & SANGMI LEE

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2012

Monograph
Zootaxa 3596: 1–86 (21 Dec. 2012) 2 plates; 750 references                 Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012   
literature review of the Polychaeta of the Caribbean Sea
HARLAN K. DEAN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3594: 1–283 (20 Dec. 2012) 100 plates; 288 references             Accepted: 23 Oct. 2012   
Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
JURATE DE PRINS & AKITO Y. KAWAHARA

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Article
Zootaxa 3590: 51–62 (18 Dec. 2012)  4 plates; 36 references          Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
A revision of the Xestia (Radddea) alexis (Kozhanchikov, 1928) species-group with a checklist of subgenus Raddea Alphéraky, 1892 and description of brachipterous females (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae) 
VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO, ANTON V. VOLYNKIN & ALEXEI YU. MATOV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3590: 37–50 (18 Dec. 2012)  7 plates; 15 references          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2012
A revision of the "Belciana" viridipicta (Hampson, 1902) species group with description of a new genus and two new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution VII 
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3590: 16–22 (18 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 16 references          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2012
A new genus and species of the tribe Apameini from the Russian Far East (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae) 
V. S. KONONENKO & A. JU. МАТОV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3590: 1–15 (18 Dec. 2012)  7 plates; 23 references            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
A revision of the "Belciana" kala Prout, 1924 species group with description of a new genus and two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae) from East Asia. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution VI 
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3587: 78–88 (17 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 9 references         Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Two new genera and three new species of the Pantheinae from East Asia and China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Contribution to revision of Pantheinae VIII 
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany), H.L. HAN (China) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3587: 46–64 (17 Dec. 2012)  6 plates; 46 references       Accepted: 9 Oct. 2012
A generic level review of Eupithecia Curtis and some closely related genera based on the Palaearctic, Nearctic and Oriental fauna (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) 
VLADIMIR G. MIRONOV (Russia) & ANTHONY C. GALSWORTHY (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3582: 37–47 (12 Dec. 2012)  4 plates; 23 references       Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
A revision of the genus Donda Moore, 1882 with description of two species from East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Pantheinae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution V 
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany), H.L. HAN (China) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3582: 1–16 (12 Dec. 2012)  9 plates; 26 references        Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
A new species of Phyllocnistis Zeller (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from southern Brazil, with life-history description and genetic comparison to congeneric species 
ROSÂNGELA BRITO (Brazil), GISLENE L. GONÇALVES (Brazil), HECTOR A. VARGAS (Chile) & GILSON R. P. MOREIRA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3580: 56–68 (11 Dec. 2012)  5 plates; 30 references           Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
New species of the genus Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentii-nae) from Iran 
VLADIMIR MIRONOV (Russia) & ULRICH RATZEL (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3580: 1–23 (11 Dec. 2012)  12 plates; 28 references       Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Taxonomy of spatially disjunct alpine Teleiopsis albifemorella s. lat. (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) revealed by molecular data and morphology —how many species are there? 
PETER HUEMER (Austria) & MARKO MUTANEN (Finland)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3573: 66–68 (6 Dec. 2012)  1 plate; 6 references               Accepted: 21 Nov. 2012
Replacement names for two species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) 
H.L. HAN (China) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3573: 1–17 (6 Dec. 2012)  0 plats; 85 references              Accepted: 16 Oct. 2012
Catalogue of the type specimens of Yponomeutoidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the United States National Museum of Natural History 
JAE-CHEON SOHN & JON A. LEWIS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3571: 1–25 (4 Dec. 2012)  1 plates 28 references               Accepted: 30 Oct. 2012
A Checklist of the Moths of Alaska 
CLIFFORD D. FERRIS (USA), JAMES J. KRUSE (USA), J. DONALD LAFONTAINE (Canada), KENELM W. PHILIP (USA), B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT (Canada) & DEREK S. SIKES (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3570: 41–55 (3 Dec. 2012)  10 plates; 43 references           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2012
Trifurcula (Glaucolepis) lituanica sp. nov., an unexpected new stem-miner on Salvia pratensis occurring in eastern Europe (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae) 
POVILAS IVINSKIS (Italy), ERIK J. VAN NIEUKERKEN (Netherlands) & JOLANTA RIMSAITE (Italy)
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Article
Zootaxa 3557: 1–19 (21 Nov. 2012)  11 plates; 41 references            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2012
Revalidation of Oliera Brèthes (Lepidoptera: Cecidosidae) based on a redescription of O. argentinana and DNA analysis of Neotropical cecidosids 
GILSON R. P. MOREIRA (Brazil), GISLENE L. GONÇALVES (Brazil), RODRIGO P. ELTZ (Brazil), GERMÁN SAN BLAS (Argentina) & DONALD R. DAVIS (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3547: 85–88 (13 Nov. 2012)  2 plates; 3 references              Accepted: 9 Oct. 2012
Two new species and a new record of Spininola from China (Lepidoptera: Nolidae: Nolinae) 
YAN-QING HU, MIN WANG & HUI-LIN HAN (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3547: 46–54 (13 Nov. 2012)  4 plates; 9 references              Accepted: 14 Aug. 2012
Two new species of the Torodora karismata species complex and a new species of the Torodora leucochlora species complex (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae: Torodorinae) 
KYU-TEK PARK & SANGMI LEE (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3526: 31–44 (25 Oct. 2012)  9 plates; 35 references            Accepted: 3 Oct. 2012
A new species of Yphthimoides (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the southern Atlantic forest region 
ANDRÉ V. L. FREITAS, LUCAS A. KAMINSKI, OLAF H. H. MIELKE, EDUARDO P. BARBOSA & KARINA L. SILVA-BRANDÃO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3509: 55–68 (8 Oct. 2012)  5 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 13 Aug. 2012

New genus and three new species of the subfamily Xyleninae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) 

J. BABICS (Hungary), V.S. KONONENKO (Russia) & A. SALDAITIS (Lithuania)

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Article
Zootaxa 3503: 25–46 (2 Oct. 2012)  27 plates; 34 references              Accepted: 15 Aug. 2012
Kunanyia stephaniae gen. nov. & sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae): an unusual and rare diurnal moth from the mountains of Tasmania 
CATHERINE J. BYRNE (Australia) & NASEN WEI (China)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3494: 1–73 (21 Sept. 2012) 24 plates; 72 references           Accepted: 8 Jun. 2012   
The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa
David J. L. Agassiz
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Article
Zootaxa 3488: 41–62 (18 Sept. 2012)  5 plates; 89 references          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2012

A review of the taxonomic history and biodiversity of the genus Urodeta (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae), with description of new species 

JURATE DE PRINS (Belgium) & VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA (Lithuania)

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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 429–433 (11 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 9 references         Accepted: 16 Jul. 2012
Pelagodes cancriformis, a new emerald moth species from the north of Thailand, Laos and southern China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae: Geometrinae)
JAAN VIIDALEPP, AARE LINDT & HONGXIANG HAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 416–428 (11 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 9 references         Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
A review of the genus Dasypolia Guenée, 1852 from the Russian part of the Altai Mountain Country, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 403–415 (11 Sept. 2012) 5 plates; 37 references       Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
A review of Peratophyga Warren, 1894 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae)
NAN JIANG, DAYONG XUE & HONGXIANG HAN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3478: 399–402 (11 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 9 references          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2012
A new species of the genus Lithostege (Geometridae: Larentiinae) from China
HOSSEIN RAJAEI SH. & DAYONG XUE
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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 383–398 (11 Sept. 2012) 5 plates; 39 references        Accepted: 16 Jul. 2012
The genus Afrasura Durante, 2009 in Gabon, with description of five new species and a new species group (Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
ANTONIO DURANTE
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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 373–382 (11 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 46 references         Accepted: 8 Aug. 2012
Descriptions of five new species of the genus Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in China, along with a checklist of all the described Chinese species
AIHUAN ZHANG & HOUHUN LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 345–372 (11 Sept. 2012) 15 plates; 18 references       Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
Review of the Afrotropical genus Dracontogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight new species
LEIF AARVIK, TIMM KARISCH & GUNNHILD MARTHINSEN

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3470: 1–71 (7 Sept. 2012) 45 plates; 77 references                      Accepted: 11 May 2012   
Comparative analysis and taxonomic use of the morphology of immature stages and natural history traits in European species of Pyrgus Hübner (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae)
JUAN L. HERNÁNDEZ-ROLDÁN, MIGUEL L. MUNGUIRA, WOLFGANG WAGNER & ROGER VILA

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3454: 1–62 (5 Sept. 2012) 26 plates; 53 references                      Accepted: 15 Mar. 2012   
Revision of Cossinae and small Zeuzerinae from Australia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)
AXEL KALLIES & DOUGLAS J HILTON (Australia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3445: 63–66 (30 Aug. 2012)  2 plates; 10 references                   Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
A new species of the genus Tentasetae Fibiger, 2011 from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae: Hypenodinae, Micronoctuini): postscript to the revision of China Micronoctuidae
HUI-LIN HAN (China), MU-JIE QI (Korea) & VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3445: 59–62 (30 Aug. 2012)  2 plates; 6 references                     Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
A new species of Anepholcia Prout, 1922 from Nepal: postscript to the revision of Pantheinae, Contribution IV (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany) & V.S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3445: 1–36 (30 Aug. 2012)  11 plates; 64 references                   Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
Revision of Chinese Oretinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae)
WENHUI SONG, DAYONG XUE & HONGXIANG HAN (China)

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Zootaxa 3444: 51–60 (29 Aug. 2012)  6 plates; 36 references                     Accepted: 11 Jul. 2012
The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument 5: Two new species of Cochylini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Tortricinae)
ERIC H. METZLER & GREGORY S. FORBES (USA)

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Zootaxa 3438: 1–42 (24 Aug. 2012)  29 plates; 137 references                   Accepted: 2 Jul. 2012
Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) principally from Kenya. Part 4. Hesperiinae: Aeromachini and Baorini
MATTHEW J. W. COCK (UK) & T. COLIN E. CONGDON (Kenya)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3426: 64–68 (16 Aug. 2012)  2 plates; 10 references                    Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
Two new Perigrapha species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
AIDAS SALDAITIS, POVILAS IVINSKIS & ROBERT BORTH (Lithuania)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3420: 63–68 (13 Aug. 2012)  3 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
A new species of Catocala Schrank, 1802 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) from China
AIDAS SALDAITIS (Lithuania), POVILAS IVINSKIS (Lithuania), ALESSANDRO FLORIANI (Italy) & JÁNOS BABICS (Hungary)

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Zootaxa 3417: 45–52 (10 Aug. 2012)  2 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
A review of Micardia Butler, 1878 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae)
FUQIANG CHEN & DAYONG XUE (China)

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Zootaxa 3389: 41–50 (16 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 34 references                 Accepted: 22 May 2012
Dichrorampha dinarica, new species, a century of confusion in European lepidopterology (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) resolved by combining morphology and DNA barcoding
PETER HUEMER (Austria), BOYAN ZLATKOV (Bulgaria) & JOAQUIN BAIXERAS (Spain)

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Article
Zootaxa 3384: 1–59 (10 Jul. 2012) 0 plate; 148 references                 Accepted: 18 May 2012
A list of Cuban Lepidoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta)
RAYNER NÚÑEZ AGUILA & ALEJANDRO BARRO CAÑAMERO (Cuba)
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Zootaxa 3382: 29–40 (9 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 35 references                 Accepted: 22 May. 2012
Description of a new species of the genus Zaretis Hübner, [1819], with taxonomic notes on Z. itys and Z. itylus, stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae) and illustration of a gynandromorph
FERNANDO MAIA SILVA DIAS, MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE & OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3373: 1–82 (4 Jul. 2012) 26 plates; 107 references                      Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012   
A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
HOUHUN LI & KLAUS SATTLER

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Zootaxa 3360: 1–52 (29 Jun. 2012) 20 plates; 29 references                Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Taxonomic revision and zoogeographical patterns of the species of Gnopharmia Staudinger, 1892 (Geometridae, Ennominae)
HOSSEIN RAJAEI SH., DIETER STÜNING & ROBERT TRUSCH (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3357: 1–24 (26 Jun. 2012) 9 plates; 53 references                Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Taxonomic review of Syzeuxis Hampson, 1895, with a discussion of biogeographical aspects (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)
JING LI (China), DAYONG XUE (China), HONGXIANG HAN (China), ANTHONY C. GALSWORTHY (UK)

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Zootaxa 3343: 57–68 (12 Jun. 2012) 8 plates; 20 references                 Accepted: 1 May  2012
DNA barcoding and morphology support the division of Elachista nuraghella sensu auctorum (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) into two vicariant species
LAURI KAILA & MARKO MUTANEN (Finland)

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Zootaxa 3343: 16–30 (12 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 32 references                 Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
Taxonomic notes on the leafwing butterflies Memphis leonida (Stoll) and Memphis editha (Comstock), stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae)
FERNANDO MAIA SILVA DIAS, MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE &
OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3342: 60–68 (12 Jun. 2012) 3 plates; 30 references                 Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
A new species of satyrine butterfly from Patagonia in more than a century and revisional notes on the genus Faunula C. Felder & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
TOMASZ W. PYRCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3341: 59–63 (11 Jun. 2012)  2 plates; 10 references                Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Three new species of Hawaiian moths from Kahoolawe island (Lepidoptera: Crambidae & Coleophoridae)
MATTHEW J MEDEIROS & DAVID ADAMSKI (USA)
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Zootaxa 3332: 49–59 (1 Jun. 2012) 3 plates; 23 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
Review of the genus Sinoe (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) with descriptions of two new species
SANGMI LEE & RICHARD L. BROWN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3323: 50–56 (24 May 2012) 3 plates; 20 references                Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
Taxonomic note on Scythris pangalactis Meyrick 1933, with the description of a new species from Iran and a new synonymy (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Scythrididae)
PIETRO PASSERIN D’ENTRÈVES (Italy), BENGT Å. BENGTSSON (Sweden)
 
& ANGELA ROGGERO (Italy)

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Zootaxa 3322: 49–62 (23 May 2012) 11 plates; 22 references                 Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
The genus Ampittia in Africa with the description of a new species (Hesperiinae;
Aeromachini) and three new species in the genera Andronymus and Chondrolepis (Hesperiinae, incertae sedis) (Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae)
TORBEN B. LARSEN (Denmark) & T. C. E. CONGDON (Kenya)

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Zootaxa 3322: 1–34 (23 May 2012) 14 plates; 22 references                 Accepted: 13 Mar. 2012
Review of the genus Scaeosopha Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Scaeosophinae) in the world, with descriptions of sixteen new species
HOUHUN LI (China), ZHIWEI ZHANG (China) & SERGEY YU. SINEV (Russia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3318: 68 ( 21 May 2012)
Erratum: CARLOS PRIETO & GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ (2012) A new iridescent “elfin” butterfly species of Podanotum (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the Colombian Andes. Zootaxa, 3303, 59–64.
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Zootaxa 3318: 1–25 (21 May 2012) 8 plates; 55 references                 Accepted: 13 Mar. 2012
Epinotia cinereana (Haworth, 1811) bona sp., a Holarctic tortricid distinct from E. nisella (Clerck, 1759) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) as evidenced by DNA barcodes, morphology and life history
MARKO MUTANEN (Finland), LEIF AARVIK (Norway), JEAN-FRANÇOIS LANDRY (Canada),
ANDREAS H. SEGERER (Germany) & OLE KARSHOLT (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 3316: 40–49 (17 May 2012) 5 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
Four new Owadaglaea species from the greater Himalayan region (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
BALÁZS BENEDEK (Hungary), ROBERT BORTH (Lithuania) & AIDAS SALDAITIS (Lithuania)

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Zootaxa 3316: 28–39 (17 May 2012) 5 plates; 21 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
On species related to Elachista hedemanni Rebel (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae), with descriptions of three new Palearctic species
LAURI KAILA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 3303: 59–64 (8 May 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
A new iridescent “elfin” butterfly species of Podanotum (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the Colombian Andes
CARLOS PRIETO & GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ (Colombia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3300: 20–33 (4 May 2012)  12 plates; 11 references                Accepted: 5 Mar. 2012
A new species of Bucculatrix Zeller (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) associated
with Baccharis salicifolia (Asteraceae) in northern Chile
HECTOR A. VARGAS (Chile) & GILSON R.P. MOREIRA (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3286: 1–132 (30 Apr. 2012) 0 plate; 460 references                    Accepted: 28 Jan. 2012   
An annotated catalog of fossil and subfossil Lepidoptera (Insecta: Holometabola) of the world
JAE-CHEON SOHN, CONRAD LABANDEIRA,
DONALD DAVIS & CHARLES MITTER
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Article
Zootaxa 3281: 61–68 (27 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 20 Feb. 2012
Two new heterobathmiid moth species with distinctive female genital configurations (Lepidoptera: Heterobathmiidae)
FRANK HÜNEFELD (Germany) & NIELS P. KRISTENSEN (Denmark)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3278: 58–60 (25 Apr. 2012)  1 plate; 6 references                Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Heterophleps inusitata, an extremely rare new moth species from western Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae)
JING LI, NAN JIANG & HONGXIANG HAN (China)

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Zootaxa 3275: 43–54 (23 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
Six new species of Epicephala Meyrick, 1880 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) associated with Phyllanthaceae plants 
JING ZHANG, BINGBING HU & SHUXIA WANG, HOUHUN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3274: 63–68 (20 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 9 references                      Accepted: 29 Feb. 2012
Polytremis jigongi: a new skipper from China (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) 
JIAN-QING ZHU, ZHI-BING CHEN & LI-ZHEN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3273: 1–27 (19 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 40 references                      Accepted: 21 Feb. 2012
Taxonomic revision of the genus Eudonia Billberg, 1820 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) 
WEICHUN LI (China), HOUHUN LI (China) & MATTHIAS NUSS (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3268: 1–15 (13 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 41 references                 Accepted: 16 Feb. 2012
Review of the genus Cochylidia Obraztsov (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini) in China 
YINGHUI SUN & HOUHUN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3262: 22–34 (9 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
Taxonomic remarks on Andraca Walker, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) with descriptions of five new species 
VADIM V. ZOLOTUHIN (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3262: 1–21 (9 Apr. 2012) 11 plates; 53 references                 Accepted: 16 Feb. 2012
DNA barcodes reveal that the widespread European tortricid moth Phalonidia manniana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a mixture of two species 
MARKO MUTANEN (Finland), LEIF AARVIK (Norway), PETER HUEMER (Austria), 
LAURI KAILA (Finland), OLE KARSHOLT (Denmark) & KEVIN TUCK (UK)

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Zootaxa 3261: 1–32 (6 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 38 references                 Accepted: 22 Feb. 2012
Taxonomic revision of the genus Glaucocharis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Crambinae) from China, with descriptions of nine new species 
WEICHUN LI & HOUHUN LI (China)

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Zootaxa 3260: 47–52 (6 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 29 references                 Accepted: 31 Jan. 2012
One new species and two new synonyms in the genus Ethmia (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Ethmiinae) 
JING-JING WANG & SHU-XIA WANG (China)
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Zootaxa 3256: 51–57 (4 Apr. 2012)  4 plates; 9 references                Accepted: 8 Feb. 2012
Two new species of Fibuloides Kuznetsov, 1997 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from Thailand 
NANTASAK PINKAEW (Thailand) & AIHUAN ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3239: 58–63 (20 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 31 Jan. 2012
Four new species of the genus Casmara Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China
SHUXIA WANG, LI ZHANG & JINGJING WANG (China)
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Zootaxa 3222: 1–27 (5 Mar. 2012) 7 plates; 74 references                    Accepted: 13 Jan. 2012
Descriptions of new Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) reared from native fruit in Kenya 
JÓZEF RAZOWSKI (Poland) & JOHN W. BROWN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3198: 1–28 (20 Feb. 2012) 13 plates; 65 references                       Accepted: 23 Dec. 2011
Head Morphology of some Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) 
EDUARDO CARNEIRO, OLAF H.H. MIELKE & MIRNA M. CASAGRANDE (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3181: 28–46 (02 Dec. 2012) 10 plate; 26 references                            Accepted: 02 Dec. 2011
New species and review of the Afrotropical clearwing moth genus Camaegeria Strand, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Synanthedonini)
DANIEL BARTSCH & JUTTA BERG (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3177: 33–42 (30 Jan. 2012) 2 plate; 14 references                            Accepted: 02 Dec. 2011
Description of Amorbimorpha Kruse, new genus, from Mexico and the southern United States (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini)
JAMES J. KRUSE (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3153: 1–31 (6 Jan. 2012) 28 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2011
The Aventiinae, Boletobiinae, Eublemminae, Pangraptinae, Phytometrinae, and Scolecocampinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
MICHAEL G. POGUE (USA)

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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 212–221 (23 Dec. 2011
Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

ERIK J. VAN NIEUKERKEN, LAURI KAILA, IAN J. KITCHING, NIELS P. KRISTENSEN, DAVID C. LEES, JOËL MINET, CHARLES MITTER, MARKO MUTANEN, JEROME C. REGIER, THOMAS J. SIMONSEN, NIKLAS WAHLBERG, SHEN-HORN YEN, REZA ZAHIRI, DAVID ADAMSKI, JOAQUIN BAIXERAS, DANIEL BARTSCH, BENGT Å. BENGTSSON, JOHN W. BROWN, SIBYL RAE BUCHELI, DONALD R. DAVIS, JURATE DE PRINS, WILLY DE PRINS, MARC E. EPSTEIN, PATRICIA GENTILI-POOLE, CEES GIELIS, PETER HÄTTENSCHWILER, AXEL HAUSMANN, JEREMY D. HOLLOWAY, AXEL KALLIES, OLE KARSHOLT, AKITO Y. KAWAHARA, SJAAK (J.C.) KOSTER, MIKHAIL V. KOZLOV, J. DONALD LAFONTAINE, GERARDO LAMAS, JEAN-FRANÇOIS LANDRY, SANGMI LEE, MATTHIAS NUSS, KYU-TEK PARK, CARLA PENZ, JADRANKA ROTA, ALEXANDER SCHINTLMEISTER, B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT, JAE-CHEON SOHN, M. ALMA SOLIS, GERHARD M. TARMANN, ANDREW D. WARREN, SUSAN WELLER, ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV, VADIM V. ZOLOTUHIN,
ANDREAS ZWICK
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Zootaxa 3137: 31–45 (20 Dec 2011) 4 plates; 61 references                     Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
A new avocado pest in Central America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with a key to Lepidoptera larvae threatening avocados in California
TODD M. GILLIGAN, JOHN W. BROWN & MARK S. HODDLE (USA)

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Zootaxa 3136: 1–44 (19 Dec 2011) 31 plates; 71 references                        Accepted: 03 Nov. 2011
A morphological review of tribes in Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
JAAN VIIDALEPP (Estonia)
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Zootaxa 3130: 30–56 (14 Dec. 2011) 11 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Morpho (Morpho) helenor (Cramer) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Morphinae) in Bolivia: Geographical distribution and ecological plasticity, with a description of a new subspecies
YUVINKA GARECA (Bolivia) & PATRICK BLANDIN (France)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3128: 67–68 (13 Dec. 2011) 0 plate; 2 references                            Accepted: 20 Nov. 2011
Revised checklist of Australian butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea): Addendum and Errata
MICHAEL F. BRABY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3127: 1–37 (13 Dec. 2011) 2 plates; 82 references                           Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
The Tortricidae described by J. C. Fabricius (Lepidoptera)
JOAQUÍN BAIXERAS (Spain) & OLE KARSHOLT (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 3116: 59–68 (02 Dec. 2011) 03 plates; 27 references                  Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Strotihypera, a new Old World genus of the tribe Elaphriini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae)

VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia) & HUI-LIN HAN (China)
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Zootaxa 3116: 01–32 (02 Dec. 2011) 36 plates; 27 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Phylogenetic analysis of Arsenura Duncan (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Arsenurinae) based on adult morphology
AMABÍLIO J. A. DE CAMARGO, OLAF H. H. MIELKE & MIRNA M. CASAGRANDE (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3110: 46–52 (25 Nov. 2011) 05 plates; 05 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
A new Syngrapha Hübner, [1821] from the Altai Mountain Country (Lepidoptera Noctuidae)
A.V. VOLYNKIN & A.YU. MATOV (Russia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3108: 64–68 (24 Nov. 2011) 04 plates; 06 references                  Accepted: 20 Oct. 2011
Two new species of Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) from Peru
BENOIT VINCENT (France)
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Zootaxa 3108: 53–63 (24 Nov. 2011) 04 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Three new species of the subfamily Bryophilinae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
HUI-LIN HAN (China), VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia) & GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3108: 41–52 (24 Nov. 2011) 07 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
A review of the genera Elydnodes Hampson, 1913 and Antitrisuloides Holloway, 1985 with description of two new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution III
GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany) & VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3105: 1–46 (22 Nov. 2011) 25 plates; 73 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
A review of the species of Lithostege Hübner, [1825] 1816 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae), occurring in Iran and adjacent countries, with description of two new species from Iran and Pakistan
HOSSEIN RAJAEI SH. (Germany), DIETER STÜNING (Germany) & JAAN VIIDALEPP (Estonia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3101: 65–68 (17 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 18 Oct. 2011

Disparia primavera
, a new species of Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) from China

AIDAS SALDAITIS, POVILAS IVINSKIS & JOLANTA RIMSAITE (Lithuania)

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Zootaxa 3097: 57–67 (14 Nov. 2011) 5 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Redescription of Holarctias rufinularia (Staudinger, 1901), with notes on
the taxonomy and relationships of Holarctias Prout, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Sterrhinae)
EVGENY A. BELJAEV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3097: 20–34 (14 Nov. 2011) 7 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
A revision of the genus Anepholcia Prout, 1924 with description of three new species from South East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution IV
GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany) & VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3094: 1–29 (09 Nov. 2011) 14 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Revision of the genus Xenophysa Boursin, 1969 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
ZOLTÁN VARGA (Hungary)

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Zootaxa 3070: 60–68 (27 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Taxonomic decision as a compromise: Acasis appensata (Eversmann, 1832) in Central Italy—a case of conflicting evidence between DNA barcode and morphology (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
AXEL HAUSMANN (Germany) & PETER HUEMER (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 3070: 40–50 (27 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
A review of the genus Belciades Kozhanchikov, 1950 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Pantheinae), with descriptions of two new species from China and Thailand. Revision of Pantheinae, contribution II
GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany), HUI-LIN HAN (China) & VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia)
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Zootaxa 3069: 1–25 (26 Oct. 2011) 14 plates; 24 references                  Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
A revision of the genus Trisuloides Butler, 1881 with descriptions of three new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution I
GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany), HUI-LIN HAN (China) & VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3068: 49–68 (26 Oct. 2011) 9 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
Twelve new species of Athetis Hübner, [1821] 1816 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
H. L. HAN (China) & V. S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3058: 63–68 (13 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 22 Sep. 2011
Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) 
JÓZEF RAZOWSKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3055: 43–61 (11 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 64 references                  Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
A synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Paraguay 

SERGIO D. RÍOS (Paraguay) & JORGE M. GONZÁLEZ (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3053: 63–68 (10 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 02 Sep. 2011
Five species of the genus Agonopterix Hübner (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) from China
ALEXANDR L. LVOVSKY (Russia) & SHUXIA WANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3050: 1–36 (06 Oct. 2011) 1 plates; 80 references                  Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Butterflies of the Andaman and Nicobar islands: History of collection and checklist 
PRASHANTH MOHANRAJ & K. VEENAKUMARI (India)
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Zootaxa 3044: 49–64 (29 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Taxonomic study of the genus Promalactis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from Hainan Province, China 

ZHAOHUI DU, HOUHUN LI & SHUXIA WANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3040: 55–68 (23 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 31 Aug. 2011
The genus Micandra Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) in Colombia, with the description of a new species from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 

CARLOS PRIETO (Colombia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3040: 43–54 (23 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of New Guinea, Part IV: Genus Pectinimura Park with descriptions of four new species and four new combinations 

KYU-TEK PARK (Korea)

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Article
Zootaxa 3038: 29–44 (22 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 26 Aug. 2011
Revision of the genus Paraplaneta Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Southeast Asia 

SEI-WOONG CHOI (Korea) & DIETER STÜNING (Germany)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3033: 1–67 (19 Sep. 2011) 66 plates; 75 references                   Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) principally from Kenya. Part 3. Pyrginae: Celaenorrhinini 

MATTHEW J. W. COCK & T. COLIN E. CONGDON

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3032: 65–68 (19 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 28 Jul. 2011
Note on taxonomic history, thoraco-abdominal articulation, and current placement of Millieriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) 
JADRANKA ROTA & NIELS P. KRISTENSEN (Denmark)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3031: 54–60 (16 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 17 Aug. 2011
Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963 – a junior synonym of Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana 
ŁUKASZ PRZYBYŁOWICZ & MAREK BĄKOWSKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3021: 39–62 (12 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 35 references                  Accepted: 11 Aug. 2011
A taxonomic revision of Tridrepana Swinhoe, 1895 in China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae) 
WENHUI SONG, DAYONG XUE & HONGXIANG HAN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3020: 60–68 (09 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
Description of two new species of Noctuidae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) 

AIDAS SALDAITIS (Lithuania), BALÁZS BENEDEK (Hungary) & GIEDRE VISINSKIENE (Lithuania)

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Article
Zootaxa 3020: 49–59 (09 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 37 references                  Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
A distinctive new species of Euglyphis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) from Costa Rica, with a checklist of the Euglyphis known from Costa Rica 
JOSÉ JOAQUÍN MONTERO-RAMÍREZ (Costa Rica), DANIEL H. JANZEN (USA) & WINNIE HALLWACHS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3019: 26–50 (09 Sep. 2011) 8 plates; 64 references                  Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
Thalassodes and related taxa of emerald moths in China (Geometridae, Geometrinae)
HONGXIANG HAN & DAYONG XUE (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3008: 1–32 (30 Aug. 2011) 20 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 26 Jul. 2011
New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA (Italy) & JURATE DE PRINS (Belgium)

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Article
Zootaxa 2991: 1–12 (10 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                  Accepted: 20 Jul. 2011
A revision of the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with descriptions of five new species 
GUO-HUA HUANG (China), TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan) & MIN WANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2981: 1–22 (01 Aug. 2011) 11 plates; 34 references                  Accepted: 16 Jun. 2011
Cryptic diversity and phylogeography of high alpine Sattleria—a case study combining DNA barcodes and morphology (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 

PETER HUEMER(Austria) & PAUL D. N. HEBERT (Canada)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2935: 59–63 (01 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
Redescription of Rhodostrophia lenis Wiltshire 1966 and R. vartianae Wiltshire,
1966, with new distributional data (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
HOSSEIN RAJAEI SH. & ROBERT TRUSCH (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2931: 53–58 (27 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 23 May 2011
Triskelionia, a new African genus of the Celaenorrhinini (Lepidoptera:
Hesperiidae) and the promotion of T. compacta to species-status.
TORBEN B. LARSEN (Denmark) & T. COLIN E. CONGDON (Kenya)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2926: 1–45 (22 Jun. 2011) 14 plates; 77 references                   Accepted: 30 May 2011
A taxonomic revision of the Stictopterinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae)
in China
FENG QI, KE WANG, DAYONG XUE & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2906: 66–68 (3 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 12 references                        Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
Distribution and conservation status of nominate Euptychia cesarense in the East Andes of Colombia
BLANCA HUERTAS (UK) & GIOVANNY FAGUA (Colombia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2906: 43–51 (3 Jun. 2011) 6 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
Two new taxa of Euptychia Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the Andes of Colombia and Peru
HANNIER W. PULIDO-B. (Colombia), M. GONZALO ANDRADE-C. (Colombia), CARLOS PEÑA (Sweden)
& GERARDO LAMAS (Perú)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2898: 1–68 (30 May 2011) 26 plates; 45 references                     Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
A taxonomic revision of the genus Daedalma Hewitson with the descriptions of twenty new taxa and the immature stages of two species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) 
TOMASZ W. PYRCZ (Poland), HAROLD F. GREENEY (Ecuador), KEITH R. WILLMOTT (USA) & JANUSZ WOJTUSIAK (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2897: 1–17 (30 May 2011) 5 plates; 40 references                      Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Neotropical Blepolenis butterflies: wing pattern elements, phylogeny, and Pleistocene diversification (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
CARLA M. PENZ (USA), NEDA MOHAMMADI (USA) & NIKLAS WAHLBERG (Finland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2896: 53–64 (28 May 2011) 4 plates; 37 references                      Accepted: 3 May 2011
A new Mexican Mesene (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae)

CURTIS JOHN CALLAGHAN (Colombia), JORGE LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS (Mexico) & A. LUIS-MARTINEZ
(Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2896: 46–52 (28 May 2011) 5 plates; 10 references                    Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
New Noctuidae species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
P. GYULAI (Hungary), L. RONKAY (Hungary) & A. SALDAITIS (Lithuania)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2895: 65–68 (27 May 2011) 4 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 2 May 2011
Notes on the genus Prismosticta (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae) with description of a new species from China
XING WANG, GUO-HUA HUANG & MIN WANG (P.R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2893: 1–66 (26 May 2011) 55 plates; 100 references                  Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
Observations on the biology of Afro–tropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) principally from Kenya. Part 2. Pyrginae: Tagiadini

MATTHEW J. W. COCK (Switzerland) & T. COLIN E. CONGDON
(Kenya)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2892: 25–32 (26 May 2011) 5 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 3 May 2011
Two species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) new to China, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis and Eumetriochroa

SHIGEKI KOBAYASHI (Japan), GUO-HUA HUANG (P.R. China) & TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2887: 57–68 (23 May 2011) 5 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
Notes on the tribe Nygmiini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae)
from Nanling National Nature Reserve, with description of a new species
HOUSHUAI WANG, MIN WANG & XIAOLING FAN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2882: 51–58 (18 May 2011) 6 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
A new Cocos-eating moth of Acria Stephens, 1834 (Lepidoptera, Peleopodidae) from China, with descriptions of its adult, larva and pupa
FUQIANG CHEN & CHUNSHENG WU (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2879: 33–40 (16 May 2011) 2 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
A new species of Hedya Hübner from Iran with proposed rearrangement of some species currently assigned to Metendothenia Diakonoff (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
HELEN ALIPANAH (Iran) & JOAQUÍN BAIXERAS (Spain)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2858: 1–60 (29 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 334 references                     Accepted: 3 Dec. 2010
A preliminary bibliographic survey of the insects found in poultry houses from the Neotropical Region, with remarks on selected taxa shared with native birds' nests

OSVALDO DI IORIO & PAOLA TURIENZO
(Argentina)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2842: 1–188 (29 Apr. 2011) 38 plates; 255 references                   Accepted: 20 Jan. 2011
Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae 
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2837: 86–88 (29 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 5 references                      Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
Two new species of the genus Irepacma Moriuti, Saito & Lewvanich (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Guizhou Province, China
JING-JING WANG & SHU-XIA WANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2831: 57–62 (26 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Bireta morozovi, a new species (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae) from China 
AIDAS SALDAITIS, POVILAS IVINSKIS & JOLANTA RIMSAITE (Lithuania)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2811: 22–36 (7 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
A review of some of the Binna-like species of Afrotropical Spilosoma Curtis (1825) listed by Goodger & Watson (1995) and including the genus Radiarctia Dubatolov (2006) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Arctiinae)
PATRICK G. HAYNES (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2802: 63–68 (28 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 22 references                      Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
A new species of Satyrinae butterfly from Peru (Nymphalidae: Satyrini: Euptychiina)
BLANCA HUERTAS (UK)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2797: 54–56 (22 Mar. 2011) 1 plates; 10 references                       Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
A new species of Phycodes from China (Lepidoptera: Sesioidea: Brachodidae)
AXEL KALLIES (Australia), MIN WANG (P.R. China) & YUTAKA ARITA (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2777: 41–53 (25 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
Five new species and one new subspecies of Micronoctuidae from China,
with a checklist of Chinese species, including Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea, Micronoctuidae)
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark), HUI-LIN HAN (P.R. China) & VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2764: 1–21 (14 Feb. 2011) 11 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 23 Nov. 2010
Agrionympha, the long-known South African jaw moths: a revision with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae)
GEORGE W. GIBBS (New Zealand) & NIELS P. KRISTENSEN (Denmark)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2762: 31–36 (10 Feb. 2011) 3 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae II: description of three new species of the genus Variacma Wang

SHU-XIA WANG, GAI-XIA YUAN & ROGER C. KENDRICK (P.R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2760: 65–68 (8 Feb. 2011) 1 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 6 Jan. 2011
Discovery of the male of Temnolopha matura Diakonoff (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutini) in South Thailand
NANTASAK PINKAEW (Thailand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2760: 18–28 (8 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
Five new East-Asian species of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae)
MARGARITA G. PONOMARENKO (Russia), JAE-CHEON SOHN (USA),
YULIYA N. ZINCHENKO (Russia) & CHUN-SHENG WU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2740: 35–43 (14 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 2 Dec. 2010
A new Orobrassolis butterfly (Nymphalidae, Brassolini): a casualty of habitat destruction?
CARLA PENZ (USA), THOMAS J. SIMONSEN (UK) & PHIL DEVRIES (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2735: 1–22 (10 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
A review of Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae)
NAN JIANG, DAYONG XUE & HONGXIANG HAN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2733: 16–30 (6 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
On the taxonomy of the Exophyla-Isoura-Perinaenia generic-complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Catocalinae)
JÁNOS BABICS & LÁSZLÓ RONKAY (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2720: 1–27 (13 Dec. 2010) 7 plates; 49 references                             Accepted: 4 Nov. 2010
A review of the Philaethria dido species complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) and description of three new sibling species from Colombia and Venezuela
LUIS MIGUEL CONSTANTINO & JULIAN A. SALAZAR (Colombia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2718: 64–68 (9 Dec. 2010) 1 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
Two new species of Rhopalovalva Kuznetsov (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China
AIHUAN ZHANG & HOUHUN LI (China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2707: 1–76 (3 Dec. 2010) 1 plates; 277 references                              Accepted: 6 Nov. 2010
The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics
(Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) for the 21st century
MICHAEL F. BRABY (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2693: 21–34 (1 Dec. 2010) 8 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 22 Oct. 2010
Key to the genera of Oxyptilini (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae: Pterophorinae),
with descriptions of two new genera
HELEN ALIPANAH (Iran), ALIREZA SARI (Iran), ALIMORAD SARAFRAZI (Iran), CEES GIELIS
(Netherlands) & SHAHAB MANZARI (Iran)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2679: 51–68 (17 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
A review of the Eastern Palaearctic genera Paragona Staudinger, 1892 and
Paragabara Hampson, 1926 with description of two new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Aventiinae, Hypeninae)
VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia), HUI-LIN HAN (China) & ALEXEJ YU. МАТОV(Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2679: 1–31 (17 Nov. 2010) 12 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)
G. BEHOUNEK (Germany) & V. S. KONONENKO (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2678: 48–68 (17 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
New species of the genera Acronicta Ochsenheimer, 1816 and Craniophora Snellen, 1867 from China with notes on synonymy and checklist (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Acronictinae)
H. L. HAN (China) & V. S. KONONENKO (Russia)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2668: 66–68 (5 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 7 Oct. 2010
The first records of P. d. dexamenus from Costa Rica and
new records of Prepona pylene gnorima (Nymphalidae: Charaxinae)
LUIS RICARDO MURILLO-HILLER & JOSÉ JOAQUÍN MONTERO-RAMÍREZ (Costa Rica)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2668: 21–32 (5 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 22 Oct. 2010
Biology and external morphology of immature stages of Memphis appias
(Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae)
FERNANDO MAIA SILVA DIAS, MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE & OLAF HERMANN
HENDRIK MIELKE (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2656: 4 1–54 (25 Oct. 2010) 8 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Descriptions of life-stages of Blastobasis repartella (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea:
Coleophoridae: Blastobasinae) and observations on its biology in switchgrass
D. ADAMSKI, P. J. JOHNSON, A.A. BOE, J.D. BRADSHAW & ALAN PULTYNIEWICZ (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2622: 1–41 (23 Sep. 2010) 9 plates; 67 references                             Accepted: 11 May 2010
A survey of the Neotropical montane butterflies of the subtribe Pronophilina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in the Venezuelan Cordillera de la Costa
ANGEL L. VILORIA (Venezuela), TOMASZ W. PYRCZ (Poland) & ANDRÉS ORELLANA (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2618: 36–46 (20 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the clearwing moth genus Crinipus Hampson, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)
DANIEL BARTSCH (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2609: 1–33 (13 Sep. 2010) 11 plates; 56 references                            Accepted: 30 Jul. 2010
Taxonomic revision of Scoparia Haworth, 1811
(Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China 
WEICHUN LI (P.R. China), HOUHUN LI (P.R. China) & MATTHIAS NUSS (Germany)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2583: 1–119 (31 Aug. 2010) 26 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea)
Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2573: 1–34 (23 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 91 references                           Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Revision of the Neotropical moth genera Mallodeta Butler and Erruca Walker, revalidated (Noctuidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini, Euchromiina)
LÍVIA R. PINHEIRO & MARCELO DUARTE (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2562: 24–44 (10 Aug. 2010) 9 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Bergiantina, a new genus of agaristid moth (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
GERMÁN SAN BLAS & FERNANDO NAVARRO (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2559: 1–16 (5 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 29 references                                Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
A review of Jankowskia Oberthür, 1884, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae)
NAN JIANG, DAYONG XUE & HONGXIANG HAN (China)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2547: 1–63 (23 Jul. 2010) 51 plates; 91 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2010
Observations on the biology of Afro–tropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
principally from Kenya. Part 1. Introduction and Coeliadinae
MATTHEW J. W. COCK
(Switzerland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2524: 33–50 (1 Jul. 2010) 12 plates; 42 references                              Accepted: 1 Jun. 2010
The Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae) of Ecuador with descriptions of five new species
VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA (Lithuania)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2520: 1–48 (28 Jun. 2010) 22 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 29 May 2010
Micropterigidae (Lepidoptera) of the Southwestern Pacific: a revision with the establishment of five new genera from Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand
GEORGE W. GIBBS (New Zealand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2513: 1–26 (21 Jun. 2010) 9 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 28 May 2010
The genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in China, with descriptions of 13 new species
OLEKSIY BIDZILYA (Ukraine) & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2511: 22–38 (18 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 56 references                           Accepted: 13 May 2010
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
JAE-CHEON SOHN (USA), MARGARITA G. PONOMARENKO (Russia), CHUN-SHENG WU (P.R. China), HUI-LIN HAN (P.R. China) & XIN-LI WANG (P.R. China) 

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Article 
Zootaxa 2511: 1–21 (18 Jun. 2010) 10 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 13 May 2010
A review of the China-Himalayan members of the subfamily Euplocaminae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae)
GUO-HUA HUANG (P.R. China), TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan) & MIN WANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2506: 59–64 (15 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 13 May 2010
Description of a new high Andean butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae:
Theclinae) from the “Sierra Nevada del Cocuy”, Colombia
CARLOS PRIETO (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2502: 47–55 (11 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
A new genus of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Central Asia
O. V. BIDZILYA (Ukraine)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2499: 1–20 (9 Jun. 2010) 2 plates; 26 references                                 Accepted: 3 May 2010
The Acontiinae and Eustrotiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
MICHAEL G. POGUE (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2490: 1–15  (1 Jun. 2010) 13 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2010
The genus Scobura Elwes & Edwards, 1897 from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
XIAOLING FAN (China), HIDEYUKI CHIBA (USA) & MIN WANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2485: 33–46 (27 May 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 1 Apr. 2010
Four new species of the genus Chrysoteuchia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) from China
HOUHUN LI & WEICHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2469: 1–77 (14 May 2010) 42 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2010
An annotated catalogue of the types of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) with descriptions of new genera and new species
 
JÓZEF RAZOWSKI (Poland), LEIF AARVIK (Norway) & JURATE DE PRINS (Belgium)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2466: 1–74 (14 May 2010) 38 plates; 148 references                           Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Description of the immature stages and life history of Euselasia (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) on Miconia
(Melastomataceae) in Costa Rica 
KENJI NISHIDA (Costa Rica)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2453: 25–41  (13 May 2010) 13 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 9 Mar. 2010
Revision of Isoplenodia Prout, 1932 with new records from continental Africa (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
PASI SIHVONEN (Finland) & HERMANN S. STAUDE (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2444: 45–50  (4 May 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
One new species and three newly recorded species of the genus Exaeretia Stainton, 1849 (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Depressariinae) from China 
SHURONG LIU & SHUXIA WANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2421: 1–27 (8 Apr. 2010) 15 plates; 56 references                                Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
Revision of Hista Oiticica (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) and discussion on the validity of its subspecies
SIMEÃO S. MORAES (Brazil) , MARCELO DUARTE (Brazil) & JORGE M. GONZÁLEZ (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2412: 42–52 (29 Mar. 2010) 8 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 10 Feb. 2010
Thitarodes namnai sp. nov. and T. caligophilus sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae), hosts of the economically important entomopathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis in Bhutan
NORBERT MACZEY (UK), KUENZANG DHENDUP (Bhutan), PAUL CANNON (UK), NIGEL
HYWEL-JONES (Thailand) & TEK BAHADUR RAI (Bhutan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2401: 41–51 (17 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 4 Feb. 2010
Taxonomic study of the genus Nemapogon Schrank from China (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)
YUNLI XIAO & HOUHUN LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2394: 1–22 (9 Mar. 2010) 0 plates; 55 references                              Accepted: 19 Dec. 2009
Name-bearing Types of Lepidoptera (Insecta), excluding Rhopalocera, in the
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
KEITH P. BLAND (UK)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2380: 1–75 (26 Feb. 2010) 66 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
The Hadeninae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, USA
MICHAEL G. POGUE (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2367: 1–68 (23 Feb. 2010) 14 plates; 60 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes
(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
JARI JUNNILAINEN (Finland), OLE KARSHOLT (Denmark), KARI NUPPONEN(Finland),
JARI-PEKKA KAITILA(Finland), TIMO NUPPONEN(Finland) & VLADIMIR OLSCHWANG (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2366: 1–34 (23 Feb. 2010) 13 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part I: descriptions of
seventeen new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
JARI JUNNILAINEN & KARI NUPPONEN (Finland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2347: 1–36 (29 Jan. 2010) 18 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
Revision of the North American Genera Tetracis Guenée and Synonymization of Synaxis Hulst with Descriptions of Three New Species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae)
CLIFFORD D. FERRIS (USA) & B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT (Canada)

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2009 (52 articles, 1 monograph & 3 correspondence)

Article 
Zootaxa 2325: 39-61 (23 Dec. 2009) 17 plates; 42 references                         Accepted: 17 Nov. 2009
Immature stages of Calycopis bellera (Hewitson) and C. janeirica (Felder) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini): Taxonomic significance and
new evidence for detritivory
MARCELO DUARTE (Brazil) & ROBERT K. ROBBINS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2314: 63-68 (18 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2009
DNA barcoding confirms species rank for a cryptic geometrid species from
Turkey and Bulgaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Sterrhinae)
FEZA CAN (Turkey)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2310: 51-58 (14 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 19 Nov. 2009
The genus Crypsithyris Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) in Guangdong Province, China, with comments on the biology and the description of a new
species
GUO-HUA HUANG (P.R. China), TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan) & MIN WANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2288: 42-50 (12 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 14 Oct. 2009
Carmenta chromolaenae Eichlin, a new species (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) for the
biological control of Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson (Asteraceae)
THOMAS D. EICHLIN (USA), OONA S. DELGADO (Venezuela), LORRAINE W. STRATHIE (South
Africa), COSTAS ZACHARIADES (South Africa), & JOSE CLAVIJO (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2287: 55-63 (11 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 14 Oct. 2009
Notes on the genus Metaeuchromius Bleszynski (Lepidoptera: Crambidae:
Crambinae) from China, with description of two new species
WEICHUN LI (P.R. China), HOUHUN LI (P.R. China) & MATTHIAS NUSS (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2282: 1-50 (5 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 132 references                          Accepted: 12 Oct. 2009
Curt Schrottky (1874–1937): South American entomology at the beginning of
the 20th century (Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera)
CLAUS RASMUSSEN (Peru), BOLÍVAR RAFAEL GARCETE-BARRETT (Brazil) & RODRIGO B.
GONÇALVES (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2281: 53-67 (4 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 82 references                          Accepted: 29 Sep. 2009
Sex attractant, distribution and DNA barcodes for the Afrotropical leaf-mining
moth Phyllonorycter melanosparta (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
JURATE DE PRINS (Belgium), RAIMONDAS MOZ
ŪRAITIS (Sweden), CARLOS LOPEZVAAMONDE (France) & RODOLPHE ROUGERIE (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2280: 27-52 (3 Nov. 2009) 9 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Revision of the Afrotropical species of Asura Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera:
Arctiidae, Lithosiinae), with the description of a new genus
ANTONIO DURANTE (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2279: 1-50 (2 Nov. 2009) 14 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 22 Sep. 2009
The discovery of Megalota in the Neotropics, with a revision of the New World
species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutini)
JOHN W. BROWN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2273: 59-68 (27 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Phylogeny of the genera Euclidiodes and Hasodima (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
and description of two new species from the Fray Jorge relict forest in northern Chile
LUIS E. PARRA, ROMINA VILLAGRÁN-MELLA & PABLO A. MARQUET (Chile)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2272: 63-68 (23 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 15 Sep. 2009
The genus Pyroderces Herrich-Schäffer new to China, with description of a new
species (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae)
ZHIWEI ZHANG & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2272: 37-53 (23 Oct. 2009) 12 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
New species of Hyposmocoma (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) from the remote
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of Laysan, Necker, and Nihoa
PATRICK SCHMITZ & DANIEL RUBINOFF (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2268: 1-22 (20 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
A review of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China, with description
of 6 new species and 7 new records for China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)
H. L. HAN (P.R. China) & V. S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2263: 31-41 (13 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
A taxonomic study of Epipristis Meyrick, 1888 from China, with descriptions of
two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae)
HONGXIANG, HAN (P.R. China), ANDRÉS, EXPÓSITO HERMOSA (Spain) & DAYONG, XUE (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2263: 1-22 (13 Oct. 2009) 11 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 17 Sep. 2009
Eastern Palaearctic Scythrididae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea): description of a
new genus and some new species
PIETRO PASSERIN D’ENTRÈVES & ANGELA ROGGERO (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2261: 1-22 (9 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 71 references                          Accepted: 17 Sep. 2009
Annotated review and discussion of phylogenetically important characters for
families and subfamilies of Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)
SIBYL RAE BUCHELI (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2249: 44-50 (7 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 23 Sep. 2009
Taxonomic study of the genus Teinoptila Sauber, 1902 from China
(Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae)
QING JIN, SHUXIA WANG & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2245: 1-31 (2 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Synopsis of the Cochylini (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Cochylini) of Iran, with the
description of a new species
HELEN ALIPANAH (Iran)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2239: 31-44 (24 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 1 Aug. 2009
Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae I: the genus Promalactis
Meyrick
SHUXIA WANG (China), ROGER C. KENDRICK (Hong Kong) & PHILIP STERLING (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2239: 1-21 (24 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
Revision of the Australian Oenochroma vinaria Guenée, 1858 species-complex
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Oenochrominae): DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity and assesses status of type specimen without dissection
AXEL HAUSMANN (Germany), PAUL D.N. HEBERT (Canada), ANDREW MITCHELL (Australia),
RODOLPHE ROUGERIE (Canada), MANFRED SOMMERER (Germany), TED EDWARDS (Australia) & CATHERINE J. YOUNG (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2237: 1-33 (22 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Taxonomic revision of Neotropical Dicepolia Snellen (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
JAMES E. HAYDEN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2231: 40-46 (15 Sep. 2009) 1 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
Experimental population genetics in insects:
inheritance of ISSR-PCR bands in an artificial population
ANNA K. HUNDSDOERFER & MICHAEL WINK (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2231: 1-39 (15 Sep. 2009) 0 plates; 51 references                          Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) in America North of Mexico
SANGMI LEE, RONALD W. HODGES & RICHARD L. BROWN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2230: 16-28 (14 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 24 Aug. 2009
Notes on the genus Perittia of the West Palaearctic region with descriptions of
three new species (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)
LAURI KAILA (Finland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2218: 1-34 (2 Sep. 2009) 43 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
Cladistic analysis of the subfamily Arsenurinae (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae)
based on adult morphology
AMABÍLIO J. A. DE CAMARGO, OLAF H. H. MIELKE & MIRNA M. CASAGRANDE (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2208: 58-64 (25 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 18 Jul. 2009
Genus Lecithocera of Thailand. Part IV. Descriptions of three new species and
notes on a little known species (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae)
KYU-TEK PARK (Korea)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2202: 48-58 (19 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 14 Jul. 2009
Jinhaku Sonan’s skipper type collection deposited at Taiwan Agricultural
Research Institute (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
HIDEYUKI CHIBA (USA), YU-FENG HSU (Taiwan), HIROSHI TSUKIYAMA (Japan), PHILIP YIKFUI
LO (Hong Kong), CHIEN-REN CHEN (Taiwan) & SHOU-MING WANG (Taiwan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2202: 1-47 (19 Aug. 2009) 7 plates; 29 references                           Accepted: 25 Jul. 2009
A revision of the endemic Hawaiian genus Thyrocopa
(Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae)
MATTHEW J. MEDEIROS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2197: 53-63 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 41 references                           Accepted: 11 Jul. 2009
A new hidden species of the Cymothoe caenis-complex
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from western Africa
ROBIN VAN VELZEN (the Netherlands), TORBEN B. LARSEN (Denmark) & K T. BAKKER (the
Netherlands)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2197: 1-19 (13 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 11 Jul. 2009
Variation of Stinga Evans, 1955, with description of a new species from Mexico
(Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini)
ANDREW D. WARREN (USA) & GEORGE T. AUSTIN (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2172: 1-31 (30 Jul. 2009) 15 plates; 69 references                           Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
The Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) of Kenya
with descriptions of eight new species
VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA (Lithuania) & JURATE DE PRINS (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2169: 1-20 (28 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 14 Jul. 2009
Apaturinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Korean Peninsula:
Synonymic Lists and Keys to Tribes, Genera and Species
YOUNG JUNE LEE (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2150: 1-78 (6 Jul. 2009) 19 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2009
Systematics of Sparganothoides Lambert and Powell, 1986
(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini)
JAMES J. KRUSE & JERRY A. POWELL
(USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2134: 1-22 (17 Jun. 2009) 9 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Phylogeny of Dynastor and Brassolis butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae):
a tough nut to crack
IVONNE J. GARZÓN-ORDUÑA & CARLA M. PENZ (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2117: 65-68 (25 May 2009) 1 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 4 May 2009
Rediscovery and redescription of Hystrichophora loricana (Grote)
(Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
TODD M. GILLIGAN, TERRY HARRISON & LORAN D. GIBSON (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2117: 1-30 (25 May 2009) 11 plates; 47 references                           Accepted: 7 Apr. 2009
A new expanded revision of the European high mountain Sciadia tenebraria
species group (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
PETER HUEMER (Austria) & AXEL HAUSMANN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2090: 40-56 (4 May 2009) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 30 Mar. 2009
A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new
species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae)
SHIMEI SONG, FUQIANG CHEN & CHUNSHENG WU (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2089: 10-18 (4 May 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 30 Mar. 2009
The genus Neopseustis (Lepidoptera: Neopseustidae) from China, with
description of one new species
LIUSHENG CHEN (P.R. China), MAMORU OWADA (Japan), MIN WANG (P.R. China) & YANG LONG
(P.R. China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2087: 65-68 (1 May 2009) 2 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 4 Apr. 2009
A new species of Ptycholoma (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from South China
LIUSHENG CHEN (China), UTSUGI JINBO (Japan) & MIN WANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2087: 46-58 (1 May 2009) 6 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 21 Mar. 2009
Rediscovery of Calisto israeli Torre, with nomenclatural notes on the larger
species of Cuban Calisto (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
RAYNER NÚÑEZ AGUILA (Cuba)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2062: 65-68 (3 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 13 Mar. 2009
Threatened butterflies: a new subspecies of Neptis manasa Moore, 1858 from
Hainan Island (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
SONGYUN, LANG, DAYONG, XUE & HONGXIANG, HAN (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2062: 46-56 (3 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
Revision of the genus Ennada Blanchard (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
LUIS E. PARRA & CARLA A. ALVEAR (Chile)

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Zootaxa 2062: 1-14 (3 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 17 Feb. 2009
Review of the genus Sorolopha Lower (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Olethreutinae)
from Mainland China, with descriptions of two new species
HAILI YU & HOUHUN LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2033: 13-25 (11 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
A revision of Episothalma Swinhoe, 1893, with descriptions of two new species
and one new genus (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae)
DAYONG XUE, XUEJIAN WANG & HONGXIANG HAN (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2026: 1-17 (4 Mar. 2009) 8 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
A review of Palaearctic Metachrostis Hübner, [1820] 1816 with description of
three new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Eublemminae)
V. S. KONONENKO & A. YU.
МАТОV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2026: 18-32 (4 Mar. 2009) 7 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 11 Feb. 2009
Revision of Multiquaestia Karisch (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Grapholitini)
LEIF AARVIK (Norway) & TIMM KARISCH (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2014: 51-58 (18 Feb. 2009) 2 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
A new species of Splendeuptychia from the Magdalena Valley in Colombia
(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
BLANCA HUERTAS (UK), CRISTÓBAL RÍOS M. (Colombia) & JEAN FRANÇOIS LE CROM (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1993: 53-60 (2 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
Two new species of the subfamily Xyleninae from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Vladimir Kononenko (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1991: 43-50 (30 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 4 Dec. 2008
Identity of Euploea orontobates Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae),
a milkweed butterfly from Thailand and Vietnam
A.L. MONASTYRSKII (Vietnam) & R.I. VANE-WRIGHT (UK)

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Zootaxa 1989: 1-22 (27 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
A revision of the genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 with description of four new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae)
VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia) & GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1989: 23-38 (27 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
An unexpected hotspot of moth biodiversity in Chilean northern Patagonia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
AXEL HAUSMANN (Germany) & LUIS E. PARRA (Chile)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1989: 39-54 (27 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
Revision of the genus Hoplosauris Butler 1882 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
LUIS E. PARRA, MARÍA C. JIMÉNEZ-URRUTIA & CARLOS ZAMORA-MANZUR (Chile)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1989: 55-65 (27 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
Revision of the genus Pyrochlora Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae)
JAAN VIIDALEPP (Estonia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1985: 1-20 (21 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
The phylogeny of Opoptera butterflies, and an assessment of the systematic position of O. staudingeri (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
CARLA M. PENZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1983: 45-53 (19 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 23 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
A new species of Antigius (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclini) from Taiwan
YU-FENG HSU (R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 1974: 64-68 (9 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 13 Nov. 2008
Taxonomic study on Scotiophyes Diakonoff from China, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
XIN-PU WANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1944: 34-52 (28 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 33 references                     Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Descriptions of two new species of Hemileucinae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) from the region of Muzo in Colombia—evidence from morphology
and DNA barcodes
THIBAUD DECAËNS (France) & RODOLPHE ROUGERIE (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1944: 66-68 (28 Nov. 2008) 1 plate; 10 references                    Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
A new species of Choristoneura Lederer, with a key to the species from China
(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae)
XIN-PU WANG & GUI-JUN YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1941: 1-24 (24 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 16 Nov. 2008
A review of the "browni group" of Penaincisalia with notes on their distribution and variability (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini)
CARLOS PRIETO (Espana), ZSOLT BÁLINT (Hungary), PIERRE BOYER (France) & ESTEFANÍA MICÓ (Colombia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1933: 12-18 (14 Nov. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 30 Oct. 2008
A new genus and new species of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae) from Costa Rica
JADRANKA ROTA (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1926: 27-40 (7 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
Notes on the genus Celotes, with the description of a new species from Mexico (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrgini)
ANDREW D. WARREN (USA), STEPHEN R. STEINHAUSER (USA), CLAUDIA HERNÁNDEZ-MEJÍA (Mexico) & NICK V. GRISHIN (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1926: 68-68 (7 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 2 references                         Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A replacement name for Faecula Fibiger, 2008 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Micronoctuidae)
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1923: 18-36 (5 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Morphology and DNA barcoding reveal three cryptic species within
the Xylophanes neoptolemus and loelia species-groups (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)
THIERRY VAGLIA (France), JEAN HAXAIRE (France), IAN J. KITCHING (UK), ISABELLE MEUSNIER (Canada) & RODOLPHE ROUGERIE (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1922: 62-68 (3 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Description of a new species of Lygephila Billberg, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Catocalinae) from Russian Far East and North China
Michael Fibiger (Denmark), Vladimir s. Kononenko (Russia) & DaNny Nilsson (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1910: 45-52 (20 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Two new Acronicta Ochsenheimer, 1816 from China and Russia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acronictinae)
VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia) & HUI-LIN HAN (China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1903 1-95 (15 Oct. 2008) 21 plates; 10 references                             Accepted:18 Aug. 2008
A generic realignment of the Oncocnemidini sensu Hodges
(1983) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae), with description of a new genus and 50 new species
J. T. TROUBRIDGE (Canada)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1900: 1-109 (8 Sept. 2008) 24 plates; 1208 references                         Accepted:30 Jul. 2008
A checklist of the satyrine genus Erebia (Lepidoptera) (1758–2006)
W JOHN TENNENT (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1896: 31-44 (10 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 42 references                             Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
A new species of Neominois from northeastern Mexico (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
ANDREW D. WARREN (USA), GEORGE T. AUSTIN (USA), JORGE E. LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS (Mexico), ARMANDO LUIS-MARTÍNEZ (Mexico) & ISABEL VARGAS-FERNÁNDEZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1891: 39-54 (3 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
A revision of the subfamily Araeopteroninae Fibiger, 2005 in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with a description of four new species
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Michael Fibiger (Denmark) & Vladimir Kononenko (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1890: 50-58 (1 Oct. 2008) 14 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
Revision of the Micronoctuidae species occurring in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark) & VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1876: 19-28 (15 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
A new subgenus and three new species of catocaline noctuids from China
(Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Catocalinae)
VLADIMIR KONONENKO (Russia) & MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1862: 1-74 (3 Sep. 2008) 25 plates; 101 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2008
Characterisation of the Larvae of Australian Nacophorini
CATHERINE J. YOUNG (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1867: 1-136 (3 Sep. 2008) 28 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1858: 53-63 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
A study on the genus Glaucorhoe, with descriptions of two new species from China (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)
CHUNGUANG WU, HONGXIANG HAN & DAYONG XUE (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1848: 47-56 (13 Aug. 2008)  0 plates; 82 references                           Accepted: 23 Jul. 2008
Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)
GERARDO LAMAS (Peru)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1845: 47-59 (8 Aug. 2008) 6 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 15 Jul. 2008
Life history and larval chaetotaxy of Ahmetia achaja (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae, Theclini, Cheritrina)
GREGORY R. BALLMER & DAVID M. WRIGHT (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1842: 63-65 (4 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
A new species of Platychasma (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) from China
LIUSHENG CHEN (P.R. China), YASUNORI KISHIDA (Japan) & MIN WANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1830: 57-62 (28 Jul. 2008) 1 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 18 Jun. 2008
A new species of flightless, jumping, alpine moth of the genus Thyrocopa from Hawaii (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae)
MATTHEW J. MEDEIROS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1830: 63-68 (28 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
A review of the genus Caissa Hering in China (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae)
CHUNSHENG WU & CHENGLAI FANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1821: 37-48 (11 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 51 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Checklist of Pterophoridae, with description of one new species (Insecta, Lepidoptera)
Shulian hao, ROGER C. KENDRICK & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1821: 49-58 (11 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Three new species of Hyposmocoma (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) from the Hawaiian Islands, based on morphological and molecular evidence
PATRICK SCHMITZ & DANIEL RUBINOFF (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1821: 59-66 (11 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Three new species of Elachista Treitschke (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) from Nepal
VIRGINIJUS SRUOGA (Lithuania)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1821: 13-24 (11 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 11 Jun. 2008
Seven new species and a checklist of the genus Thecobathra Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae)
Ximei Fan, Qing Jin & Houhun Li (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1819: 40-54 (9 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 51 references                              Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
Distinguishing between Leptidea sinapis and L. reali (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) using a morphometric approach: impact of measurement error on the discriminative characters
MICHELE FUMI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1819: 1-24 (9 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 69 references                              Accepted: 19 May 2008
Molecular and morphological evidence reveals three species within the California sister butterfly, Adelpha bredowii (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae) 
KATHLEEN L. PRUDIC, ANDREW D. WARREN & JORGE LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1818: 1-55 (7 Jul. 2008) 12 plates; 217 references                             Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
Sangmi Lee & Richard L. Brown (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1806: 47-58 (20 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2008
A review of the genus Brassolis Fabricius in Colombia and Ecuador with description of two new taxa (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
C. ROGER BRISTOW (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1791: 1-52 (12 Jun. 2008) 58 plates; 29 references                              Accepted: 3 Apr. 2008
The Lasiocampidae of Iran (Lepidoptera)
VADIM V. ZOLOTUHIN (Russia) & REZA ZAHIRI (Iran)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1789: 1-56 (11 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 39 references                              Accepted: 3 Apr. 2008
Checklist of the Geometridae of European Turkey, with new records (Lepidoptera)
ZUHAL OKYAR (Turkey) & VLADIMIR MIRONOV (Russia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1767: 67-68 (12 May 2008) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 6 Mar. 2008
Designation of Lectotype and synonymy for Euchloe lotta Beutenmuller
(Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
PAUL A. OPLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1763: 1-37 (5 May 2008) 12 plates; 64 references                              Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
The Heliothinae of Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
ALEXEJ MATOV (Russia), REZA ZAHIRI (Iran) & JEREMY D. HOLLOWAY (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1759: 51-68 (30 Apr. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A taxonomic review of Pachyodes GuenJe, 1858, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae)
HONGXIANG, HAN & DAYONG, XUE (China)

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Zootaxa 1755: 61-67 (24 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 29 Feb. 2008
The genus Pselnophorus Wallengren from Mainland China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
Shulian hao & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1755: 47-56 (24 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
The thorny subject of insular endemic taxonomy: morphometrics reveal no evidence of speciation between Coenonympha corinna and Coenonympha elbana butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
LEONARDO DAPPORTO & FRANCO STRUMIA (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1751: 35-45 (16 Apr. 2008) 1 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
The butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea) of the Catimbau National Park, Pernambuco, Brazil
CARLOS EDUARDO B. NOBRE, CLEMENS SCHLINDWEIN & OLAF H. MIELKE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1746: 15-38 (11 Apr. 2008) 25 plates; 86 references                           Accepted: 6 Mar. 2008
Molecular systematics and biogeography of the genus Zizina (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
MASAYA YAGO (Japan), NORIO HIRAI (Japan), MARIKO KONDO (Japan), TETSUO TANIKAWA (Japan), MINORU ISHII (Japan), MIN WANG (P.R. China), MARK WILLIAMS (South Africa) & REI UESHIMA (Japan)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1736: 1-141 (31 Mar. 2008) 53 plates; 165 references                       Accepted: 11 Aug. 2007
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini using adult morphology,
and phylogeny of the Geometridae based on morphological characters
CATHERINE J. YOUNG
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 1733: 45-56 (28 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 25 Feb. 2008
A review of the genus Ephysteris Meyrick, 1908 from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
HOUHUN LI (P.R. China) & OLEKSIY BIDZILYA (Ukraine)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1725: 67-68 (12 Mar. 2008)  
Erratum ( NIELS P. KRISTENSEN, MALCOLM J. SCOBLE & OLE KARSHOLT (2007) Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity. Zootaxa, 1668, 699–747.
Zootaxa, 1668, 699-747.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1725: 53-60 (12 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
The genus Issikiopteryx (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae): Checklist and descriptions of new species
XIMEI FAN & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1720: 46-56 (5 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Notes on Ernocornutia Razowski, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) with descriptions of seven new species from Ecuador
JOZEF RAZOWSKI & JANUSZ WOJTUSIAK (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1713: 53-68 (27 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 4 Feb. 2008
Asuroides, a new genus of lithosiine moths (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Lithosiinae)
ANTONIO DURANTE (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1696: 1-24 (1 Feb. 2008) 10 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 8 Jan. 2008
A taxonomic review of the genus Frisilia Walker (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), with description of two new species
KYU-TEK PARK (Korea), CHUNSENG WU (P.R. China), ANDRAS KUN (Hungary) & JAE-CHEON SOHN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1692: 55-68 (29 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Review of the Chinese species of Eupoecilia Stephens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini)
XU ZHANG & HOUHUN LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1688: 61-65 (23 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 12 Dec. 2007
A new species and two new combinations in the genus Fibuloides Kuznetsov
(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) from Thailand
NANTASAK PINKAEW (Thailand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1681: 51-61 (16 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
A review of Tylostega Meyrick from Mainland China (Lepidoptera, Crambidae,
Spilomelinae), with descriptions of four new species
XICUI DU & HOUHUN LI (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1677: 1-23 (11 Jan. 2008) 0 plates; 30 references                               Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
Revised checklist of the tiger moths of the Continental United States and Canada
B. CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT  (Canada) & PAUL A. OPLER (USA)
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2007

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1670: 1-109 (21 Dec. 2007)  43 plates; 46 references                          Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Phylogenetic relationships, systematics, and biology of the species of Amorbia Clemens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini)
EUGENIE PHILLIPS-RODRIGUEZ (Costa Rica) & JERRY A. POWELL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 699-747 (21 Dec. 2007) 9 plates; 163 references                      Accepted: 21 Nov. 2007
Lepidoptera phylogeny and systematics: the state of inventorying moth and butterfly diversity
Niels P.Kristensen (Denmark), Malcolm J. Scoble (UK) & Ole Karsholt (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1660: 61-68 (14 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 2 Nov. 2007
A new species of Penaincisalia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the high Andes of Colombia
CARLOS PRIETO (Spain) & GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ (Colombia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1660: 33-43 (14 Dec. 2007)  2 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 11 Nov. 2007
Descriptions of four new Mexican riodinids (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)
CURTIS J. CALLAGHAN (Colombia), JORGE LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS (Mexico) & ARMANDO LUIS-MARTINEZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1652: 27-40 (3 Dec. 2007)  5 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 1 Nov. 2007
A new butterfly species from the Colombian Andes and a review of the taxonomy of the genera Idioneurula Strand, 1932 and Tamania Pyrcz, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
BLANCA HUERTAS (UK) & JOHN JAIRO ARIAS (Colombia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1645: 35-45 (23 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2007
The first record of Tischeriidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Madagascar, with description of Coptotriche alavelona sp. n. and an updated distributional checklist of Afrotropical Tischeriidae
DAVID C. LEES (UK) & JONAS R. STONIS (Lithuania)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1637: 1-19 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 31 Aug. 2007
Revision of the Genus Psectrotarsia Dognin, 1907 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
MICHAEL G. POGUE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1637: 37-46 (14 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2007
Taxonomic notes on the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Tineidae) with description of a new species
GUO-HUA HUANG (China), TOSHIYA HIROWATARI (Japan) & MIN WANG (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1629: 1-25 (2 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 29 Sep. 2007
A taxonomic revision of the Elachista bedellella (Sircom) complex (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae)
LAURI KAILA (Finland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1610: 41-52 (8 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 44 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Taxonomic notes and new records of the genus Sphingonaepiopsis Wallengren, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Iran
IAN J. KITCHING (UK) & REZA ZAHIRI (Iran)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1606: 59-68 (3 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 31 Aug. 2007
A systematic study of the genus Matsumuraeses Issiki from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
JINMEI LV & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1584: 55-68 (14 Sep. 2007)  21 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 27 Jul. 2007
Taxonomic changes in the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae) of East Asia, with notes on the systematics and phylogeny of Hemitheini
EUGENE A. BELJAEV (Russia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1567: 1-116 (31 Aug. 2007) 27 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae
MICHAEL FIBIGER
(Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1547: 51-57 (13 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 6 Jul. 2007
Review of the genus Synochoneura Obraztsov, with the description of a new species from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
XINPU WANG & HOUHUN LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1533: 41-52 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
Four new symmachiine taxa from the eastern Andes of Peru and Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)
JASON P. W. HALL (USA) & GERARDO LAMAS (Peru)

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Zootaxa 1516: 49-60 (28 Jun. 2007) 13 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
Three new species of Eupithecia Curtis from Arizona and New Mexico with discussion of associated species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini)
CLIFFORD D. FERRIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1510: 57-62 (18 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 24 Apr. 2007
The genus Idmon de Niceville (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China, with description of two new species
XIAOLING FAN, MIN WANG & LING ZENG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1503: 13-19 (11 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 4 May 2007
Description of a new species of the Central Palaearctic genus Margelana Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from northeastern Iran
MICHAEL FIBIGER (Denmark), REZA ZAHIRI (Iran) & VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1469: 1-42 (10 May 2007) 22 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s.l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela
MAURIZIO Bollino (Italy) & MAURO Costa (Venezuela)

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Zootaxa 1465: 55-64 (3 May 2007) 4 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 27 Mar. 2007
A review of the Torodora manoconta species-group (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), with descriptions of three new species
KYU-TEK PARK (Korea)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1449: 57-64 (16 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
Review of Homaloxestis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of two new species
KYU-TEK PARK & BONG-KYU BYUN
(Korea)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1437: 55-60 (2 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Two new species and a new record of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) from Korea
MARGARITA PONOMARENKO (Russia) & KYU-TEK PARK (R. Korea)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1415: 35-42 (5 Mar. 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                               Accepted: 8 Jan. 2007
Two new genera in the Nymphidiina (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Nymphidiini)
J.P.W. HALL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1405: 39-49 (8 Feb. 2007)  3 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
Taxonomic review of the Grammia nevadensis species group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) with descriptions of` two new species
D.C. FERGUSON (USA) & B.C. SCHMIDT (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1390: 51-57 (11 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2006
Discovery of two new species of Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) from Vietnam
B.-K. BYUN & K.-T. PARK (R. Korea)
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2006

Zootaxa 1377: 27-31 (11 Dec. 2006) 2 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Review of Egogepa Razowski, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
X.P. WANG & H.H. LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1371: 37-43 (4 Dec. 2006) 2 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
Apamea permixta, sp. n., from China ?the putative sister species of A. commixta (Butler) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Xyleninae: Apameini)
V. KONONENKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1369: 55-61 (30 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 7 Nov. 2006
Lopharcha moriutii, sp. nov. and Polylopha cassiicola Liu & Kawabe (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Chlidanotinae, Polyorthini) from Thailand and Hong Kong
Y. NASU (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1364: 65-66 (23 Nov. 2006)                                                                  Accepted: 20 Oct. 2006
Corrections to "A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas" published in Zootaxa, 1178 (2006)
W.J. TENNENT (UK)
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Zootaxa 1364: 51-57 (23 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 19 Oct. 2006
Descriptions of a new species of Idaea Treitschke and the female of Scopula vojnitsi Inoue (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae) from the Russian Far East
E.A. BELJAEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1354: 45-56 (9 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 20 Oct. 2006
The Acentropinae and Musotiminae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
B. LANDRY (Switzerland) & L. ROQUE-ALBELO (UK)
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Zootaxa 1350: 33-43 (2 Nov. 2006)  6 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
Redescription of the type specimens of the Elachista freyerella species-group (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) from India and Sri Lanka
V. SRUOGA & A. DISKUS (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1338: 49-55  (19 Oct. 2006)   2 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 6 Sept. 2006
A new species of Parastenolechia Kanazawa (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from Korea, with a check list of the genus
K.-T., PARK  (R. Korea) & M.G. PONOMARENKO (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1330: 51-58 (9 Oct. 2006)  3 plates; 7 references                       Accepted:  7 Sept. 2006
The genus Pedioxestis (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China, with descriptions of three new species
S.X. WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1327: 63-68 (2 Oct. 2006)  4 plates; 8 references                      Accepted:  31 Aug. 2006
Notes on the genus Leucolopha (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Notodontidae) with description of a new species from China
L.S. CHEN & M.Wang (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1308: 63-68 (4 Sep. 2006)  2 plates; 4  references                             Accepted:  21 Aug. 2006
A review of the genus Euros Hy. Edwards (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Apameiini) with description of one new species
J. T. TROUBRIDGE (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1299: 1-33 (21 Aug. 2006)  24 references                                            Accepted:  21 Jul. 2006
Checklist of the Arctiidae (Lepidoptera: Insecta) of the continental United States and Canada
D. C. FERGUSON & P. A. OPLER (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1287: 1-294 (14 Aug. 2006) 143 plates; 63 references                        Accepted:  5 Jul. 2005
Descriptions of the eggs of some southern Australian Geometridae (Lepidoptera)
CATHERINE J. YOUNG (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1284: 61-68 (11 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 2 references                               Accepted: 19 Jul. 2006
Three new species of Lithophane Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Xyleninae)
J. T. TROUBRIDGE (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1283: 25-36 (7 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2006
Nomenclatural validation of three North American species of Heliothinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and the adult description of Heliolonche joaquinensis Hardwick
M.G. POGUE (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1283: 37-45 (7 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 17 references                             Accepted:  11 Jul. 2006
A study of the genus Semnostola Diakonoff from China with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
Z. XU & S.X. WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1278: 1-47 (3 Aug. 2006) 5 plates; 12 references                             Accepted:  11 Jul. 2006
Taxonomy of southern California Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of twenty one new species
T. MUSTELIN (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa
1264: 1-147 (17 Jul. 2006) 40 plates; 200 references                         Accepted: 13 Oct. 2005
Molecular relationships of the Australian Ennominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and implications for the phylogeny of the Geometridae from molecular and morphological data
C.J. YOUNG (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1255: 63-68 (10 Jul. 2006)  4 plates; 3 references                             Accepted: 23 Jun. 2006
Taxonomic note on Eupithecia cupressata Pearsall (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini)
C.D. FERRIS (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1245: 53-58 (26 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 23 May 2006
Lyonetiidae of Turkey with notes on their distribution and zoogeography (Lepidoptera)
S. SEVEN (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1244: 33-39 (26 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 10 references                               Accepted: 23 May 2006
A new species of Amphipoea Billberg, 1820, from northwestern Iran (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
R. ZAHIRI & M. FIBIGER (Iran) 
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Zootaxa 1236: 1-22 (19 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 18 Apr. 2006
A review of the genus Scirpophaga Treitschke, 1832 in China (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
F.Q. CHEN, S.M. SONG, C.S. WU (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1221: 29-39 (1 Jun. 2006) 2 plates; 7 references                                                    28 Apr. 2006
Revision of Chlororithra Butler, 1889 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae)
HAN, H.X. , LI, H.M. & XUE, D.Y. (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1216: 1-114 (26 May 2006) 35 plates; 173 references                         Accepted: 14 Mar. 2006
The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of mainland France and Corsica: an annotated catalogue (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea)
E. J. VAN NIEUKERKEN (The Netherlands), A. LASTU VKA  (Czech Republic) & Z. LA
STUVKA (Czech Republic) 
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Zootaxa 1215: 1-96 (26 May 2006) 60 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2006
The Noctuinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A.
M.G. POGUE (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1204: 53-59 (18 May 2006) 3 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2006
Hispaniodirphia lemaireiana n. sp., a new saturniid from the Greater Antilles (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Hemileucinae)
R. ROUGERIE & D. HERBIN (France) 
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Zootaxa 1197: 45-54 (8 May 2006) 2 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2006
Macrocydia divergens, a new genus and species of Grapholitini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) from Central America
J.W. BROWN (USA) & J. BAIXERAS (Spain) 
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Zootaxa 1195: 1-29 (8 May 2006) 5 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 24 Feb. 2006
The Cryptolechia Zeller (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) of China (III): Checklist and descriptions of new species
S.X. WANG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1190: 1-50 (1 May 2006) 20 plates; 33 references                              Accepted: 18 Jan. 2006
Systematic position of Apodemia paucipuncta (Riodinidae), and a critical evaluation of the nymphidiine transtilla
C.M. PENZ & P.J. DEVRIES (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1188: 37-47 (28 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2006
Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Korea: Description of a new species and records of two previously unrecorded species
B.-K. BYUN (P. Korea) 
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Zootaxa 1184: 57-68 (24 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 24 Feb. 2006
Notes on Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) injurious to Lycium (Solanaceae), with descriptions of two new species from China
H.H. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 887 references                         Accepted: 17 Dec. 2005
A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas
W.J. TENNENT  (UK)
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Zootaxa 1170: 1-26 (10 Apr. 2006) 10 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 11 Feb. 2006
DNA barcodes: Evaluating the potential of COI to diffentiate closely related species of Elachista (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae) from Australia
L. KAILA & G. STÅHLS (Finland)
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Zootaxa 1164: 35-50 (3 Apr. 2006) 8 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 15 Feb. 2006
Revision of the Scopula dubernardi species group: how many species? (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
P. SIHVONEN (Finland) & D. STÜNING (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1163: 49-59 (30 Mar. 2006) 4 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2005
Description of Genus Guaianaza for "Euptychia" pronophila (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with a description of the immature stages
A.V.L. FREITAS & C. PEñA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1161: 51-64 (30 Mar. 2006) 6 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 31 Jan. 2006
A new species of Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae: Coleophorinae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
J.-F. LANDRY (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1159: 1-68 (27 Mar. 2006) 48 plates; 103 references                          Accepted: 5 Sept. 2005
Review of generic limits of the tiger moth genera Virbia Walker and Holomelina Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae) and their biogeography
J.M. ZASPEL & S.J. WELLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1143: 1-218 (10 Mar. 2006) 102 references; 68 plates                     Accepted: 27 Sept. 2005
Types of Neotropical Pierinae in the collection of Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
S.P. ABADJIEV (Bulgaria)
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Zootaxa 1131: 59-68 (20 Feb. 2006) 5 plates; 4 references                               Accepted: 4 Jan. 2006
Review of Ammatucha Turner with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)
Y.D. REN & H.H. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1124: 55-68 (8 Feb. 2006) 5 plates; 50 references                              Accepted: 2 Dec. 2005
A new species of Phyllonorycter (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from Kenya discovered by using the sex attractant Z8-tetradecen-1-yl acetate
J. DE PRINS (Belgium) & R. MOZURAITIS (Sweden)
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2005

Zootaxa 1103: 17-26 (22 Dec. 2005) 3 plates; 19  references                            Accepted: 2 Nov. 2005
Description of a new species, records of five previously unrecorded species, and rediscovery of a lost species in the genus Ancylis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China
B.-K. BYUN (R. Korea) & S.C. YAN (P. R. China)
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Zootaxa 1082: 57-64 (18 Nov. 2005) 3 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 11 Oct. 2005
New species of Ceroprepes Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae), with a key to Chinese species
Y.L. DU, S.M. SONG & D. YANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1082: 29-35 (18 Nov. 2005) 3 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 24 Jun. 2005
First record of the genus Rhopaltriplasia Diakonoff from China, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
H.L. YU & H.H. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1080: 1-16 (15 Nov. 2005) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 Sept. 2005
Two new species of Neodactria Landry (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Crambinae) from the United States of America
B. LANDRY (Switzerland) & R. L. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1063: 1-31 (14 Oct. 2005) 16 plates; 63 references                             Accepted: 27 Aug. 2005
Immature stages of Calycopis caulonia (Hewitson, 1877) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini), with notes on rearing detritivorous hairstreaks on artificial diet
M. DUARTE (Brazil), R. K. ROBBINS (USA) & O. H. H. MIELKE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1060: 37-50 (7 Oct. 2005) 3 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 30 Jun. 2005
Checklist and new species of the Coleophora salicorniae group from China (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae)
H.H. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1032: 1-28 (8 Aug. 2005) 21 plates, 10 references                               Accepted: 28 Jun. 2005
The Plusiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
M.G. POGUE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1025: 1-94 (29 Jul. 2005) 37 plates; 199 references                             Accepted: 7 May 2005
Phylogeny and classification of Callimorphini (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae)
M.A. DaCosta & S.J. WELLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1022: 1-35 (25 Jul. 2005) 8 plates; 17 references                               Accepted: 13 Jun. 2005
An annotated catalog of types of Neotropical Pierinae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
S.P. ABADJIEV  (Bulgaria)
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Zootaxa 943: 1-8 (18 Apr. 2005) 5 plates; 17 references                                 Accepted: 25 Feb. 2005
Scopula anfractata sp. n., a new geometrid moth from Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
P. SIHVONEN  (Finland)
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Zootaxa 898: 1-35 (14 Mar. 2005) 11 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 18 Feb. 2005
Systematics of Schinia chrysellus (Grote) complex: Revised status of Schinia alencis (Harvey) with a description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
M.G. POGUE  & C.E. HARP (USA)
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Zootaxa 870: 1-16 (25 Feb. 2005) 3 plates; 15 references                                    Accepted: 8 Feb. 2005
Three new species of Tracholena Common, 1965 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Schoenotenini) from New Caledonia associated with Araucariaceae
J.S. DUGDALE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 858: 1-205 (16 Feb. 2005) 100 plates, 15 references                           Accepted: 16 Jan. 2005
Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae)
D. ADAMSKI (USA)
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Zootaxa 849: 1-8. (4 Feb. 2005)  4 plates, 28 references                                  Accepted: 21 Jan. 2005
Description of a new species of Imara Houlbert, 1918 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae)
B. ESPINOZA  (Costa Rica) & J.M. GONZÁLEZ  (USA)
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Zootaxa 832: 1-16 (24 Jan. 2005) 1 plate, 61 references                                Accepted: 14 Jan. 2004
Provisional checklist of genera of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
M.F. BRABY (Australia)
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Zootaxa 806: 1-8 (10 Jan. 2005) 8 plates; 3 references                                 Accepted: 30 Dec. 2004
A new species of Eucosma Hübner from the Western United States (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)
C.D. FERRIS  (USA)
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Zootaxa 797: 1-20 (5 Jan. 2005) 5 plates, 24 references                                 Accepted: 3 Nov. 2004
Five new Penaincisalia species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru
J.P.W. HALL (USA), K.R. WILLMOTT (UK) & R.C. BUSBY (USA)
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2004

Zootaxa 788: 1-4 (22 December 2004) 1 plate; 6 references                        Accepted: 11 Dec. 2004
A new species of Schinia Hübner from riparian habitats in the Grand Canyon (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
M.G. POGUE (USA)

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Zootaxa 762: 1-19 (10 December 2004) 1 plate; 69 references                        Accepted: 1 Dec. 2004
A synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad and Tobago
J.M. GONZÁLEZ (USA) & M.J.W. COCK (UK)
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Zootaxa 740: 1-42 (25 November 2004) 18 plates; 41 references                   Accepted: 11 Nov. 2004
Review of the Nearctic species of Bryotropha Heinemann (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
T. RUTTEN (Germany) & O. KARSHOLT
(Denmark)
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Zootaxa 738: 1-19 (22 November 2004) 22 plates; 6 references                    Accepted: 10 Nov. 2004
Taxonomic note on four poorly known Arizona Eupithecia Curtis (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Eupitheciini)
C.D. FERRIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 719: 1-10 (11 November 2004) 2 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 1 Nov. 2004
Two new species of Actinote (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) from Southeastern Brazil
R.B. FRANCINI (Brazil), A.V.L. FREITAS (Brazil) & C. PENZ
(USA)
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Zootaxa 705: 1-8 (29 October 2004) 7 plates; 1 reference                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2004
A new species of Passadenoides Neunzig from Wyoming and New Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)
C.D. FERRIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 701: 1-86 (27 October 2004) 39 plates; 22 references                      Accepted: 29 Sept. 2004
Twenty-five new species of Costa Rican Limacodidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea)
M.E. EPSTEIN (USA) & J.F. CORRALES
(Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa 605: 1-19 (13 August 2004) 3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 3 Aug. 2004
Revisional notes on the "amastris" group of Catasticta Butler, 1870 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), with descriptions of new species and subspecies
GERARDO LAMAS (Peru) & MAURIZIO BOLLINO
(Italy)
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Zootaxa 574: 1-12 (16 July 2004)  3 plates; 23 references                                  Accepted: 9 July 2004
Argentine Argyrotaenia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): Synopsis and descriptions of two new species
P. TREMATERRA (Italy) & J.W. BROWN (USA)

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Zootaxa 569: 1-7 (16 July 2004)  6 plates; 3 references                                  Accepted: 8 July 2004
Taxonomic note on Sarata tephrella Ragonot (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae: Phycitinae)
C.D. FERRIS & J.S. NORDIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 539: 1-8 (18 June 2004)  4 plates, 8 references                               Accepted: 1 May 2004
A new species of Diaphania Hübner, 1818 from Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)
R. VILA (USA), F. PIÑAS (Ecuador)
& J.A. CLAVIJO (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 522: 1-6 (24 May 2004)  2 plates, 13 references                             Accepted: 14 May 2004
New records and a new synonymy in Elachistidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Far Eastern Russia
V. SRUOGA (Lithuania)

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Zootaxa 519: 1-12 (24 May 2004) 11 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 2 May 2004
Description of Sphecosoma pattiannae, new species, with comments on its novel male androconia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae: Euchromiini)
R.B. SIMMONS (USA)

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Zootaxa 510: 1-160 (14 May 2004)  29 references                                           Accepted: 26 April 2004
Catalog of the type specimens of Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
J.W. BROWN, D. ADAMSKI, R.W. HODGES & S.M. BAHR, II
  (USA) 
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Zootaxa 473: 1-32 (25 March 2004) 1 2 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 12 March 2004
A review of the Schinia tertia (Grote) species complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
M.G. POGUE  & C.E. HARP
(USA)
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Zootaxa 467: 1-9 (19 March 2004) 7 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 15 March 2004
A new species of Nasusina Pearsall from Colorado (Lepidoptera:
Geometridae: Eupitheciini)
C.D. FERRIS (USA)
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2003

Zootaxa 382: 1-7 (12 December 2003) 3 plates; 1 reference                 Accepted: 5 November 2003
A new species of Schinia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana
E. KNUDSON, C. BORDELON  & M.G. POGUE (USA)

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Zootaxa 303: 1-31 (19 September 2003) 9 plates; 29 references               Accepted: 26 August 2003
Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)
J.W. BROWN (USA) & J. RAZOWSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 294: 1-16 (12 September 2003) 7 plates; 17 references               Accepted: 20 August 2003
Systematics of Schinia cupes (Grote) complex: Revised status of Schinia crotchii (Hy. Edwards) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae)
M.G. POGUE  & C.E. HARP  (USA)
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Zootaxa 260: 1-4 (7 August 2003) 3 plates, 1 5 references                           Accepted: 2 July 2003
Hadena ligata Möschler (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): distribution and revised taxonomy
T.L. MCCABE (USA)

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Zootaxa 247: 1-16 (25 July 2003) 6 plates; 23 references                               Accepted: 11 July 2003
Early stages of the enigmatic Prodidactis mystica (Meyrick) with comments on its new family assignment (Lepidoptera: Prodidactidae)
M. E. EPSTEIN & J. W. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa 226: 1-8 (30 June 2003) 3 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 20 June 2003
Revised status of Schinia unimacula Smith  including morphological comparisons with Schinia obliqua Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) 
M.G. POGUE & C.E. HARP (USA)
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Zootaxa 225: 1-16 (30 June 2003) 8 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 20 June 2003
Morphology and behaviour of the larva of Calindoea trifascialis (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae), a chemically-defended retreat-building caterpillar from Vietnam
D.C. DARLING  (Canada)
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Zootaxa 200: 1-94 (26 May 2003) 36 plates; 18 references                                Accepted: 1 May 2003
Systematic revision of Anopinella Powell (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) and phylogenetic analysis of the Apolychrosis group of genera
J.W. BROWN & D. ADAMSKI (USA)

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2002

Zootaxa 108: 1-15 (26 November 2002)  5 plates; 4 references             Accepted: 13 November 2002
Brazilian Sesiidae in the collection of the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (Lepidoptera)
T.D. EICHLIN & S.A. KINNEE (USA)

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