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Issue: Vol. 4926 No. 4: 10 Feb. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-02-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.4.9
Page range: 590–596
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 11

Two new species of the genus Thubdora Park and a new species of Ptilothyris Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Lecithoceridae) from Uganda

Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway
Afrotropical region description distribution taxonomy Lepidoptera

Abstract

Two species of Thubdora Park (T. onsemiro Park, sp. nov. and T. elgozmanyi Park, sp. nov.) and one species of Ptilothyris Walsingham (P. galbiplatella Park, sp. nov.) are described from Uganda.

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