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Issue: Vol. 5410 No. 3: 14 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5410.3.2
Page range: 317-324
Abstract views: 24
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Two new species of the genus Nosphistica Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae, Lecithocerinae) from China, with a checklist of the world

College of Life Sciences; Liaocheng University; Liaocheng 252000; China
College of Life Sciences; Nankai University; Tianjin 300071; China
Lepidoptera checklist Microlepidoptera Gelechioidea morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Nosphistica Meyrick, 1911 from China are described as new: N. eucalla sp. nov. and N. longiclavata sp. nov. Images of adults and genitalia for the newly described species and a checklist of the genus are given.

 

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