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Published: 2021-02-25
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Description of a new species of the genus Rhopalovalva Kuznetzov (Tortricidae, Olethreutinae) from Japan

Environmental Entomology and Zoology, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531 Japan.
Lepidoptera Eucosmini Rhopalovalva chidorinoki sp. nov. Tortricidae Taxonomy

Abstract

Rhopalovalva chidorinoki Nasu, sp. nov. is described from Japan, with the photographs of the adult and genitalia. The diagnostic characters of the new species are given with comparison with the allied species, R. exartemana (Kennel, 1901).

 

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