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Issue: Vol. 5447 No. 4: 8 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.4.8
Page range: 573-582
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A new genus and two new species of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae) from the East Malaysia with unusual male secondary characters

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok; 690022; Russia
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok; 690022; Russia
Lepidoptera new taxa thoracic and abdominal morphostructures Sabaha Gelechia

Abstract

A new genus Esexalata gen. n. and two new species (E. beljaevi sp. n., type species, and E. natalyae sp. n.) are described and illustrated from East Malaysia. Males of the new taxa possess unique metathoracic and abdominal androconial structures and wing-like structures on the metascutum. The taxonomic position of the new genus within the family Gelechiidae is discussed.

 

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