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Issue: Vol. 72 No. 1: 19 Nov. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-11-19
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.72.1.2
Page range: 16-27
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Discovery of Ectropoceros Diakonoff in Japan (Lepidoptera, Tineidae), with description of a new species

Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Mukoterayama, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770-8070, Japan
Insect DX laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
DNA barcoding Oriental region Palaearctic region Taxonomy Tineoidea World catalogue

Abstract

In this study, we describe Ectropoceros sagittalis sp. nov. from Japan. This, to the best of our knowledge, is the first record of the genus from the Palaearctic region. Photographs of adult female specimens, pupa, and their genitalia are presented, and their biology is described. We also provide a world checklist for the genus Ectropoceros.

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