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Issue: Vol. 4446 No. 4: 19 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.11
Page range: 596–600
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A new species of Aschistophleps from Thailand and Laos, with a new generic synonymy (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)

University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia.
Skřivanská 484/6, 10800 Praha 10 Malešice, Czech Republic.
Lepidoptera south-eastern Asia clearwing moths pheromones Osminiini ignisquamulata Pyrophleps

Abstract

We here describe a new clearwing moth species, Aschistophleps ignisquamulata sp. nov., from northern Thailand and Laos. This striking new species differs from all other species of Osminiini in both external appearance and genitalia and displays characteristics that indicate that Pyrophleps Arita & Gorbunov is a junior subjective synonym of Aschistophleps (syn. nov.).

 

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