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Issue: Vol. 4683 No. 2: 8 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.5
Page range: 271–276
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 4

Establishment of a new genus for Nudina xizangensis Fang, 2000 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou510642, Guangdong,China.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou510642, Guangdong,China.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou510642, Guangdong,China.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou510642, Guangdong,China.
Lepidoptera Himalaya Lichen moth Taxonomy East Asia

Abstract

The little known species Nudina xizangensis Fang, 2000 is rediscovered from its type locality, Beibeng, Motuo County, Southeast Xizang, with genitalia of both sexes illustrated for the first time. Based on its unique genitalia structure, a new lichen moth genus, Paranudina Huang & Wang gen. nov., is described with N. xizangensis as the type species. Adults and genitalia of Paranudina xizangensis (Fang, 2000) comb. nov. and Nudina artaxidia (Butler, 1881) are compared and illustrated.

 

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