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Issue: Vol. 5538 No. 5: 19 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.5.7
Page range: 473-478
Abstract views: 90
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A new genus and two new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from India and Pakistan

Zoological Survey of India; M-Block New Alipore; Kolkata 700 053; West Bengal; India
Altai State University; pr. Lenina 61; Barnaul; 656049; Russia; Tomsk State University; Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology; Lenin pr. 36; 634050 Tomsk; Russia; Western Caspian University; 31; Istiglaliyyat Street; Baku; Azerbaijan
Zoological Survey of India; M-Block New Alipore; Kolkata 700 053; West Bengal; India
University of Sciences; Techniques and Technology of Bamako; BP 1805 Bamako; Mali; Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases; Hadassah Medical School; The Hebrew University; Kalman Ya’akov Man St.; 91120 Jerusalem; Israel
Zoological Survey of India; M-Block New Alipore; Kolkata 700 053; West Bengal; India
Lepidoptera Oriental Region taxonomy new taxa Bihar (India) Sindh Province (Pakistan)

Abstract

Aroriella gen. nov., which includes two new species, A. gobardhani sp. nov. (type species) and A. grimaldii sp. nov., is described from India (Bihar) and Pakistan (Sindh Province). The new genus has a particularly complicated structure of the valva: the specific mid costal process on the inner surface of the valva is bifurcated into a proximal, smaller process and a distal larger process, the latter is in the form of a semicircular transverse plate and is almost attached to the valva. We compared the new genus with its closely related genera, Pygmeocossus Yakovlev, 2005 and Neurocossus Yakovlev, 2011.

 

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