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Issue: Vol. 4061 No. 1: 5 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.1.8
Page range: 77–84
Abstract views: 92
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Two new species of the genus Deltophora Janse, 1950 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China.
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China.
Department of Life Sciences, Division of Terrestrial Invertebrates, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Lepidoptera Gelechiidae Deltophora Phyllanthus obligate mutualism new species China

Abstract

Two Chinese species of the genus Deltophora Janse (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), both in obligate mutualism with the plant genus Phyllanthus L. (Phyllanthaceae), are newly described: Deltophora phyllanthicella Li et Sattler sp. n., from Hainan, a pollinator of its larval host Phyllanthus rheophyticus Gilbert et Li; Deltophora polliniferens Li et Sattler sp. n., from Guangdong, a pollinator of its larval host Phyllanthus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng. The adults and the male and female genital structures of both species are described and illustrated. The presence of a fully developed 1st instar larva in the female abdomen of Deltophora phyllanthicella is recorded as the first such case in Gelechiidae.

 

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