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Type: Article
Published: 2014-05-26
Page range: 240–256
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Descriptions of three new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) from Vietnam, with an updated annotated checklist

Altai State University, South Siberian Botanical Garden, Lenina 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Carpenter-Moths fauna Southern Asia

Abstract

Forty-two species of Cossidae representing 27 genera are reported for Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Three species (Paracossus zyaung Yakovlev sp. nov., Phragmacossia laklong Yakovlev sp. nov., Butaya auko Yakovlev sp. nov.) are described as new to science. Five species (Paracossus indradit Yakovlev, 2009, P. griseatus Yakovlev, 2009, Aholcocerus ihleorum Yakovlev & Witt, 2009, Skeletophyllon puer Yakovlev, 2011, Azygophleps scalaris (Fabricius, 1775) are new country records. A brief biogegraphical overview of the Cossidae of Vietnam is given.