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Issue: Vol. 5715 No. 1: 28 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.19
Page range: 218-224
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Three new species of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Colombia Part 2

University of the Free State (UFS); 205 Nelson Mandela Dr.; Park West; Bloemfontein; Free State; South Africa.; The Earth Science Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leninskie Gory 1; Moscow; 119234; Russia.
Biological Institute; Tomsk State University; Lenina Prospekt 36; Tomsk 634050; Russia.
Lepidoptera biodiversity taxonomy Neotropics South America

Abstract

Three new species of plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from Colombia are described: Postplatyptilia storozhenkoi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. nov., Stenoptilodes bernali Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. nov., and Hellinsia fatherzosima Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. nov.

 

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How to Cite

Kovtunovich, V. & Ustjuzhanin, P. (2025) Three new species of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Colombia Part 2. Zootaxa, 5715 (1), 218–224. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.19