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Issue: Vol. 4350 No. 3: 20 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.9
Page range: 574–582
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Fauna of Plume Moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Garden Route National Park, South Africa

Moscow Society of Nature Explorers, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, RU–103009, Russia.
Scientific Services, South African National Parks, South Africa.
Scientific Services, South African National Parks, South Africa.
Moscow Society of Nature Explorers, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, RU–103009, Russia.
Moscow Society of Nature Explorers, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, RU–103009, Russia.
Lepidoptera Garden Route National Park new species Pterophoridae South Africa

Abstract

Fourteen species of Pterophoridae are reported for the Garden Route National Park in South Africa. Four of them are described as new to science: Pselnophorus boldyrevae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin sp. nov., Crassuncus kenzo Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin sp. nov., Crassuncus ermakovae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin sp. nov., and Hellinsia birichevskayae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin sp. nov.

 

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