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Issue: Vol. 1449 No. 1: 16 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1449.1.5
Page range: 57–64
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 17

Review of Homaloxestis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) of the Philippine Islands, with descriptions of two new species

Center for Insect Systematics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701 Korea.
Division of Bio-specimen & Genetic Resources, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, 487-821 Korea
Lepidoptera Taxonomy systematics new species Homaloxestis Lecithoceridae Philippines

Abstract

The six species of Homaloxestis Meyrick recorded from the Philippine Islands are reviewed: H. aganacma Diakonoff, H. alopecopa Meyrick, H. cholopis (Meyrick), H. luzonensis sp. nov., H. plocamandra (Meyrick), and H. quadralis sp. nov. Homaloxestis plocamandra (Meyrick), formerly known from continental southeastern Asia, is newly recorded from the Philippines. A key to the species is provided, along with photographs of the adults and genitalia of the two new and one newly recorded species

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