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Published: 2011-10-26
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Twelve new species of Athetis Hübner, [1821] 1816 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, CH-150014 China
Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Soil Science Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RF-690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Lepidoptera Noctuidae Noctuinae Caradrinini Athetiina Athetis new species China

Abstract

Twelve new species of the genus Athetis Hübner, [1821] 1816 sensu stricto (Noctuidae, Noctuidae, Caradrinini, Athetiina) (A. hoengshana sp. n., A. simplex sp. n., A. orthosioides sp. n., A. eupsilioides sp. n., A. tridentata sp. n., A. linzhi sp. n., A. flavicolor sp. n., A. biserrata sp. n., A. minivalva sp. n., A. longiharpe sp.n., A. bicornuta sp. n., A. furcatula sp. n.) are described from China. All new species are illustrated with imagines, and with male and female genitalia.

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