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Issue: Vol. 4838 No. 2: 26 Aug. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-08-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.9
Page range: 289–297
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A new species of Metallolophia Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae), and notes on M. opalina (Warren, 1893), from eastern Himalaya, India

Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. C-703, Alpine Pyramid, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru Karnataka 560097, India.
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore, India.
Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. C-703, Alpine Pyramid, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru Karnataka 560097, India. Department of Biology, Florida International University, Miami FL 33174 USA
Indian Foundation for Butterflies. C-703, Alpine Pyramid, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru Karnataka 560097, India. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore, India.
Lepidoptera biodiversity moth taxonomy eastern Himalaya Tale WLS Archaeobalbini

Abstract

A new species, Metallolophia taleensis, sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh, India, based on male specimens. A second species, Metallolophia opalina (Warren, 1893), is recorded from India after more than a century, extending its range eastwards into Arunachal Pradesh, India.

 

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