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Issue: Vol. 4363 No. 4: 13 Dec. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.14
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of male of the rarest European Carpenter-moth Stygioides persephone (Reisser, 1962) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)

Haldenberg 10, 88400 Biberach, Germany.
Berghoffsweg 5, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Berghoffsweg 5, 07743 Jena, Germany. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Lepidoptera Cossidae

Abstract

Despite the generally good knowledge of the European fauna of Cossidae, several new species (Lepidoptera) have been described in recent years: Dyspessa kostyuki Yakovlev, 2005 (type locality Ukraine, [Lugansk region], “Proval’skaya Stepp” Naturschutsgebiete), D. aphrodite Yakovlev & Witt, 2007 (type locality Greece, Peloponnes, Mega Spileon), and Stygia nilssoni Saldaitis & Yakovlev, 2008 (type locality Islas Canarias, Gran Canaria, Puerto de Mogan) (Yakovlev 2005; Yakovlev & Witt 2007; Saldaitis & Yakovlev 2008). However, a number of European cossids are still poorly known.

 

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