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Issue: Vol. 4619 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.7
Page range: 155–167
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 2

Seven new species of the genus Deltoplastis Meyrick, 1925 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae)

College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
BioResource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea.
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Lepidoptera Gelechioidea Microlepidoptera new record taxonomy

Abstract

Seven new species of the genus Deltoplastis Meyrick are described: D. acutangulata Wang et Yu, sp. nov., D. anatoliana Wang et Park, sp. nov., D. multidentalis Wang et Yu, sp. nov. and D. similihoristis Wang et Yu, sp. nov. from China; D. aculeata Wang et Yu, sp. nov. and D. spatuliunca Wang et Yu, sp. nov. from Malaysian Borneo; and D. ovidiscalis Park et Wang, sp. nov. from Vietnam. Deltoplastis horistis (Meyrick, 1910) is newly recorded in China and its female is described for the first time. Images of adults and genitalia of the new species are provided.

 

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