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Issue: Vol. 4455 No. 3: 3 Aug. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.3.18
Page range: 597–600
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Two new species of Megalota from the Bahamas (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethruetinae)

Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560, U.S.A.
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, Florida 32611, U.S.A.
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, Florida 32611, U.S.A.
Lepidoptera Tortricidae Olethruetinae

Abstract

Two new species of Megalota Diakonoff, 1966 are described and illustrated from the Bahamas: M. bahamana Brown & Matthews, new species, and M. insularis Brown and Matthews, new species. The two are among the 65 or so species of Tortricidae recorded from the Bahamas during an inventory of the Lepidoptera of the archipelago initiated in 2010.

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