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Issue: Vol. 3547 No. 1: 13 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3547.1.4
Page range: 46–54
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of the Torodora karismata species complex and a new species of the Torodora leucochlora species complex (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae: Torodorinae)

The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Seungnam, Gyunggi, 463-808 Korea; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611 USA
School of Life Sciences, P.O.Box 874501, Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA
Lepidoptera taxonomy new species Torodora Torodorinae Indonesia Malaysian Borneo Philippines

Abstract

Two new species of the Torodora karismata species complex, T. parakarismata Park, sp. nov. and T. sabahana Park, sp. nov., are described from Sumatra, Indonesia, and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, respectively, and a sibling species of Torodora leucochlora (Meyrick), T. niphadodes Park, sp. nov., is described from the Philippines. The Torodora new species are easily distinguished from congeners by having dark-fuscous wings with various sizes of whitish costal patches or the orange-white wings and body. Illustrations of adults and genitalia for the new species are provided, as well as keys to the species for each the two species-complexes.

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