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Issue: Vol. 4638 No. 1: 15 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.1.6
Page range: 125–135
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A new genus of Pexicopiini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) for “Gelechia” acanthopis Meyrick, 1932, with review of functional morphology of male genitalia in allied genera

Department of Science Education, Gongju National University of Education, Gongju, Chungnam 32553, Republic of Korea.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia. E-mail: margp@biosoil.ru Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok 690922, Russia
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-0065 Japan
Lepidoptera Gelechiidae functional morphology Harpagidia Pexicopia Platyedra Sitotroga taxonomy

Abstract

The systematic status of Gelechia acanthopis Meyrick, 1932 is reviewed. The general and functional morphology of the male genitalia merits a new genus in Pexicopiini, Sitotrogoides gen. nov., for G. acanthopis. The musculoskeletal apparatus of the male genitalia in Sitotrogoides is described for the first time and compared with allied genera. The taxonomic position of the genus Sitotrogoides is determined within the tribe Pexicopiini. The lack of the muscle m3 is suggested as a characteristic associating Sitotrogoides with Sitotroga and differing from all other genera in Pexicopiini. The type species of Sitotrogoides, Gelechia acanthopis Meyrick is redescribed. Our new records of Sitotrogoides acanthopis from Korea suggest its extended distribution out of Japan.

 

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