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Issue: Vol. 4885 No. 2: 25 Nov. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.2.9
Page range: 271–276
Abstract views: 111
PDF downloaded: 6

A new species of the subgenus Idopterum Hampson, 1894 of the genus Ammatho Walker, 1855 from China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), with redefinition of the subgenus Idopterum

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia. National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Lepidoptera genitalia taxonomy lichen moth Indochina Nudariina

Abstract

A new species of the subgenus Idopterum Hampson, 1894 of the genus Ammatho Walker, 1855, Ammatho (Idopterum) wuchunshengi Huang, Volynkin & Wang sp. nov. is described from southeastern Yunnan, Southwestern China. The autapomorphies of Idopterum are redefined and the features in juxta and aedeagus vesica are corrected and added, respectively. Adults and genitalia of the new species and related species are illustrated.

 

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