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Issue: Vol. 4303 No. 3: 10 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.3.5
Page range: 395–406
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Five new species of the genus Paromphacodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae) from High Andes in Ecuador

Estonian Museum of Natural History, Lai st 29A, Tallinn, EE- 00001, Estonia.
University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, EE 51014.
University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, EE 51014.
Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agronomy and Environmental Sciences, Kreutzwaldi st 5D, Tartu, EE-51014 Estonia.
Lepidoptera Neotropics parámo

Abstract

Four moth species are grouped in the genus Paromphacodes today. We add descriptions of further five new species: Paromphacodes alticola sp. nov., P. alpha sp. nov., P. onae sp. nov., P. spina sp. nov. and P. summita sp. nov. The species are confined to the parámo biome on summits of Andean volcanoes and were collected on five mountains. The case of the three first named species shows that the deep COI barcode splitting does not affect morphological diversification. The differentiation of P. alticola, P. alpha and P. onae is explained in association with orogeny of Andes and repeated periods of the local active volcanism.

 

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