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Issue: Vol. 2087 No. 1: 1 May. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-05-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2087.1.5
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Ptycholoma (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from South China

Department of Entomology, College of Natural Resources & Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China
Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
Department of Entomology, College of Natural Resources & Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China
Lepidoptera Tortricidae

Abstract

The genus Ptycholoma Stephens, 1829 is a small Archipini genus comprised of four species distributed in the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions (Brown, 2005; Baixeras et al., 2008). Three species have been recorded from China: P. lecheana (Linneaus), P. imitator (Walsingham), and P. micantana (Kennel). Liu (2002) recorded P. plumbeolana (Bremer), but it subsequently was transferred to Clepsis.
During field work in South China we discovered an undescribed species in this genus. The purpose of this paper is describe the new species and provide a comparison between it and its closest relative, P. lecheana. A key and the distribution map of Ptycholoma from China are provided.

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