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Issue: Vol. 5154 No. 2: 14 Jun. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.8
Page range: 239-245
Abstract views: 254
PDF downloaded: 31

A new primitive genus of the family Psychidae having long-scaled female antennae from the Ryukyus, Japan (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea)

7-1-402, Baikoen 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 810-0035 Japan.
Kyushu University Museum, 10-1, Hakozaki 6-chome, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 812-8581 Japan.
Lepidoptera Taxonomy long-scaled flagellomere metafurcal arm corethrogyne Iriomote-jima Ishigaki-jima. Japan

Abstract

The Psychid genus Lepidoceropsyche Saigusa & Sugimoto, gen. nov. and its type species Lepidoceratopsyche manoi Saigusa & Sugimoto, sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Psychidae) are described based on the female with long-scaled antennal flagella and well-developed wings from the Ryukyus, Japan.

 

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