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Issue: Vol. 5536 No. 4: 6 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.4.4
Page range: 569-580
Abstract views: 97
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A new species of Diatraea Guilding, 1828, feeding on sugarcane from Nayarit, Mexico, and a lectotype designation for Diatraea magnifactella Dyar, 1911 (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Crambinae)

Estudiante de Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biológico Agropecuarias; Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit; Km 9 carretera Tepic-Compostela. C.P. 63780; Xalisco; Nayarit; México
Systematic Entomology Laboratory; Beltsville Agriculture Research Center; Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture; c/o National Museum Natural History; MRC 168; Smithsonian Institution; P.O. Box 37012; Washington; District of Columbia; United States of America; 20013-7012
Lepidoptera Diatraea considerata cryptic species orizaba Sinaloa CoI pheromones

Abstract

Between 2022 and 2023, over a thousand larvae and pupae of sugarcane borers in the genus Diatraea Guilding, 1828, were collected in the state of Nayarit, Mexico, and reared to adults to identify them based on the morphology of genitalia. Although two species, Diatraea considerata Heinrich, 1931, and D. magnifactella Dyar, 1911, had been reported to occur in western Mexico, we discovered a new species of sugarcane borer, Diatraea nayaritella Robles & Solis, sp. nov., from Nayarit, Mexico. It had been preliminarily identified as D. considerata, which was described from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Additionally, we designate a lectotype for D. magnifactella, new lectotype, from Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, to stabilize the name and identity of this species. The distribution of D. magnifactella is discussed.

 

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