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Issue: Vol. 4567 No. 2: 15 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.1
Page range: 201–235
Abstract views: 88
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Revision of the genus Ptilothyris Walsingham, 1897 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Lecithoceridae), with descriptions of eight new species from Africa

Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea; The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Seongnam, Gyeounggi Prov., 13630 Korea
The Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Abteilung für Sammlungen, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB, 28644 Korea
Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB, 28644 Korea
Lepidoptera Afrotropical Cameroon COI Congo Republic DR Congo new taxa Tanzania taxonomy Uganda Zambia.

Abstract

Ptilothyris Walsingham, 1897, a poorly known Afrotropical genus of Lecithoceridae, is revised. Eight new species are described and illustrated: P. subcucullata Park, sp. nov., P. crassiella Park, sp. nov., P. drepanodes Park, sp. nov., P. enormisella Park, sp. nov., P. hylodes Park, sp. nov., P. leifaarviki Park, sp. nov., P. pilosa Park, sp. nov., and P. vokaensis Park, sp. nov. Each species is compared with type specimens of the related species deposited in various museums worldwide. COI barcode sequences of six species were successfully obtained and are provided. Of the 13 previously known African species of the genus, P. serangota ab. cyanea Ghesquière, 1940 is synonymized with P. serangota Meyrick, 1932, and the following three species are excluded from the genus: brachysema Meyrick, 1938, crocophracta Meyrick, 1938, and nemophorella Ghesquière, 1940. The latter three will be transferred to related genera in forthcoming studies. Adults and genitalia of all the known species including the new species are illustrated, and a key to the species is provided.

 

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