Abstract
Three new species of the genus Nudina Staudinger, 1887 are described from northern Indochina: N. ankistro Volynkin, Huang, Bolotov & Spitsyn, sp. nov. (Northern Myanmar), N. harpago Volynkin & Huang, sp. nov. (Northern Vietnam) and N. witti Spitsyn, Volynkin, Huang & Bolotov, sp. nov. (Northern Vietnam and Northern Myanmar). The new species represent a separated species-group which is established and characterized.
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