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Issue: Vol. 4057 No. 2: 10 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.3
Page range: 210–230
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 2

Taxonomic review of the Genus Deltoplastis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) in China and its neibouring countries, with a world catalogue of the genus

College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Seongnam 463-808, Republic of Korea
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Lepidoptera Lecithoceridae Deltoplastis new species new record China

Abstract

The genus Deltoplastis Meyrick is reviewed from China and its neibouring countries. Fifteen species are recognized, including nine new species: D. angustifoliacea sp. nov., D. conjugata sp. nov., D. dentata sp. nov., D. curviloba sp. nov., D. gyroflexa sp. nov., D. hippocrepica sp. nov., D. mamillata sp. nov., D. acutiprocessa sp. nov., and D. maehongsonensis sp. nov. The male of D. causidica (Meyrick, 1910) and the female of D. prionaspis Gozmány, 1978 are described for the first time. Deltoplastis causidica (Meyrick, 1910) from China and Thailand, D. gypsopeda Meyrick, 1934 from Thailand and India, D. commatopa Meyrick, 1932 from Vietnam and India, D. lobigera Gozmány from India are newly recorded for each country. Photographs of adults and genitalia are provided, along with a key to the species and a world catalogue of Deltoplastis.