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Issue: Vol. 1876 No. 1: 15 Sep. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-09-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1876.1.2
Page range: 19–28
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

A new subgenus and three new species of catocaline noctuids from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Catocalinae)

Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Soil science Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RF-690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Molbechs Allé 49, DK-4180 Sorø, Denmark
Lepidoptera Noctuidae Catocalinae Toxocampini Apopestes Lygephila Sinocampa new species China

Abstract

Based on the collection of the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Germany, Bonn, two new species of the genera Lygephila Billberg, 1820 and Apopestes Hübner, [1823] are described from China. The new taxa belong to the subfamily Catocalinae, tribe Toxocampini: Lygephila stueningi, sp. n., Lygephila longicoecum sp. n., and Apopestes curiosa sp. n. The new subgnenus Sinocampa, subgen. n. (type species Lygephila longicoecum, sp. n.) of the genus Lygephila is described. The adults and male and female genitalia are illustrated, and distribution maps of the new species are presented.

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