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Issue: Vol. 4545 No. 4: 21 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.10
Page range: 593–600
Abstract views: 110
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A new genus and species of Apameini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Sichuan (China)

H-3530 Miskolc, Mélyvölgy 13/A, Hungary.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str. 2, LT–08412 Vilnius-21, Lithuania.
Natural History Museum, Life Sciences, DC2-2N, Cronwell Road, SW7 5BD London, UK.
Lepidoptera Noctuidae Apameini Alena alena new genus new species description China

Abstract

A new genus of Apameini (Noctuidae) from Western Sichuan, China, Alena gen. n. with a single species (Alena alena sp. n.), are described. The new species is strikingly similar in habitus to several unrelated Noctuidae.

 

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