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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 5: 15 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.5.3
Page range: 453–462
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of two new species of the Lethe manzorum-group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) from China

Chongqing Museum of Natural History, Wenxing-wan No. 42, Beibei, 400700, Chongqing, P. R. China.
Vietnam Forest Museum of the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, Vinh Quynh, Tranh Tri, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Lepidoptera Satyrini monilifera trungha species group male genitalia

Abstract

The Lethe manzorum-group is studied and two new species (L. sisii sp. nov. and L. giancbozanoi sp. nov.) closely related to L. manzorum (Poujade, 1884) from China are described and illustrated.

 

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