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Issue: Vol. 14 No. 2: February 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-03
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2020.14.2.1
Page range: 34-39
Abstract views: 362
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Three new species of Dinica Gozmány, 1965 (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) from China

Ph. D. (Professor), College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA
College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Institution of Plant Protection, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, P. R. China
Tineoidea Myrmecozelinae taxonomy new taxa

Abstract

Three species of the genus Dinica Gozmány, 1965 from China are described as new: D. claviformis Li, sp. nov., D. apicipuncta Li, sp. nov. and D. bulbella Li, sp. nov. Photographs of adults and genitalia are given, along with a key to all the known species of Dinica in China.

 

Key words: Tineoidea, Myrmecozelinae, taxonomy, new taxa

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