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Issue: Vol. 4861 No. 2: 16 Oct. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.2.4
Page range: 232–240
Abstract views: 112
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Review of the Central Asian species of Phthorarcha Meyrick (Geometridae: Alsophilinae) with description of a new species

Zoological museum, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Volodymyrska st 60, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5D, EE–51006 Estonia.
Lepidoptera Taxonomy new species Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan China Tian Shan Range Alai Mts Hissar Mts

Abstract

The Central Asian species of the winter moth genus Phthorarcha Meyrick, 1892 are revised and some specimens of the type series of Phthorarcha primigena Staudinger, 1895 are separated and described as Phthorarcha haberhaueri, sp. nov. These poorly known moths and their male and female genitalia are described and illustrated and discrimination of the genera Phthorarcha, Alsophiloides Inoue and Chimaphila Nakajima & Wang is analysed.

 

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