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Issue: Vol. 4273 No. 2: 2 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.2.4
Page range: 216–234
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 6

Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae)  from Cambodia, including associated Chinese species

College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Prov., 13630 Korea
BioResource and Environmental Center, Division of Life Sciences, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Lepidoptera taxonomy new species new record South China Southeast Asia

Abstract

In a faunal study of the micromoths in Cambodia, thirteen species of the genus Dichomeris (Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae) are recognized, including associated Chinese species. Eight species are described as new: D. arcuata sp. nov., D. splendiptera sp. nov., D. samkosensis sp. nov., D. foliforma sp. nov., D. magnimacularis sp. nov., D. hainanensis sp. nov., D. cambodiensis sp. nov., D. acutivalvata sp. nov. Five species are newly recorded for Cambodia: D. orientis Park & Hodges, D. fuscusitis Li & Zheng, D. obsepta (Meyrick), D. microsphena Meyrick, and D. matsumurai Ponomarenko & Ueda. . Images of adults and genitalia are provided.

 

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