A new species and two unrecorded species of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from Korea, with a tentative checklist of the family
A new species of Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer, L. atriptera Park, sp. nov., is described from Korea, and two species, Homaloxestis myeloxesta Meyrick, 1932 and Lecitholaxa indigens (Meyrick, 1914), are reported for the first time from Korea. Halolaguna sublaxata Gozmány is newly known from Isl. Jeju-...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2287884X20300431 |
| Summary: | A new species of Lecithocera Herrich-Shäffer, L. atriptera Park, sp. nov., is described from Korea, and two species, Homaloxestis myeloxesta Meyrick, 1932 and Lecitholaxa indigens (Meyrick, 1914), are reported for the first time from Korea. Halolaguna sublaxata Gozmány is newly known from Isl. Jeju-do. In addition, new localities for the six previously known species are given. A tentative checklist of Lecithoceridae in Korea is provided, with their type depositories. |
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| ISSN: | 2287-884X |