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Issue: Vol. 4300 No. 4: 4 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.4.1
Page range: 451–485
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Review of the genus Agonochaetia Povolný (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae), and description of a new genus and species from the Canary Islands

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes; Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes; Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada.
Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebedev str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine.
Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges.m.b.H., Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum, Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen, Krajnc-Straße 1, 6060 Hall in Tirol, Austria.
Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark.
Lepidoptera Gelechiinae Gnorimoschemini Palearctic Region Nearctic Region systematics taxonomy glandiductor new genus new species

Abstract

The Holarctic genus Agonochaetia is reviewed and a new species, Agonochaetia shawinigan Landry, sp. nov. is described from Québec, Canada. In addition, a new glandiductor-bearing genus and species, Canarischema fuerteventura Karsholt, gen. nov., sp. nov. is described from the Canary Islands. Comparative diagnoses, a key to species, illustrations of external aspect, male and female genitalia are provided for all species. Most species of Agonochaetia are rarely collected and known only from their types or from very few specimens. DNA barcodes are provided for four of the species from which DNA was recovered. Analysis of DNA barcodes suggests that Agonochaetia may be paraphyletic. Phylogenetic relationships to other Gnorimoschemini genera bearing a pair of glandiductors above the phallus are discussed.

 

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