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Issue: Vol. 5346 No. 1: 15 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.1.6
Page range: 94-100
Abstract views: 215
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On the identity of Conisania leuconephra Draudt, 1950 with a description of a new species from Xizang, China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae)

Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Tibet Plateau (Institute of Plateau Ecology; Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University); Ministry of Education; Linzhi 860000; China.
Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology in Tibet Plateau (Institute of Plateau Ecology; Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University); Ministry of Education; Linzhi 860000; China.
Altai State University; Lenina Avenue; 61; RF-656049; Barnaul; Russia
Nature Research Centre; Akademijos str.; 2; LT-08412; Vilnius-21; Lithuania
Mélyvölgy 13/A; H-3530 Miskolc; Hungary. Department of Zoology; Hungarian Natural History Museum; Baross utca; 13; H-1088 Budapest; Hungary
Department of Zoology; Hungarian Natural History Museum; Baross utca; 13; H-1088 Budapest; Hungary
Lepidoptera Hadenini morphology Noctuinae owlet moth taxonomy

Abstract

The identity of Conisania leuconephra (Draudt, 1950) from Yunnan (China) is revised. A new species Conisania sejilaensis sp. nov. is described from Xizang (China). The adults as well as the male and the female genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.

 

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