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Issue: Vol. 4066 No. 3: 15 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.3.5
Page range: 291–300
Abstract views: 103
PDF downloaded: 2

Descriptions of two new notodontid species from the relic Fagus forests in northeastern Taiwan (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae)

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., Taipei City Taiwan 115.
Taipei City Youth Development Office, No.17, Sec. 1, Ren’ai Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan 110.
Department of Life Science, National Normal University, 88 Tingzhou Rd. Sec 4, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Life Science, National Normal University, 88 Tingzhou Rd. Sec 4, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Life Science, National Normal University, 88 Tingzhou Rd. Sec 4, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lepidoptera Syntypistis Pheosiopsis new species Fagus-feeding

Abstract

Two new Fagus-feeding notodontids, i.e. Syntypistis taipingshanensis Wu & Hsu sp. n. and Pheosiopsis seni Wu & Hsu sp. n. are recently discovered from the relic Fagus forests in northeastern Taiwan. Based on the genitalia structures, the closely relatives of two new species are S. melana Wu & Fang, 2003 and P. albalienata Kishida & Kobayashi, 2005, respectively, both occurring in the Fagus forests of Southern China.

 

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