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Issue: Vol. 4247 No. 2: 27 Mar. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.2.13
Page range: 194–200
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 2

New data on the Pterophoridae fauna of Liberia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

Altai State University, Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia.
Moscow Society of Nature Explorers. Home address: Malaya Filevskaya str., 24/1, app. 20, Russia, 121433.
Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection Faculty of Forestry University of West Hungary Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca 4. H-9400 Sopron, Hungary.
Lepidoptera Pterophoridae

Abstract

There have been no special studies on plume moths of Liberia until recently. In the World Catalogue of Insects (Gielis 2003) only two species are reported from Liberia: Agdistis tamaricis (Zeller, 1847) and Megalorhipida leucodactyla (Fabricius, 1794) despite its well-known richness for other Lepidoptera groups (Fox et al. 1965, Larsen 2005) and its biogeographic position in the centre of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000).

 

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