New species of plume moths from South Africa (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

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https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.779

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Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae, new species, Republic of South Africa

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The present article describes a new Pterophoridae species Hellinsia bidzilya Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. n., basing on the materials of Wolfram Mey (Berlin, Germany), Oleksiy Bidzilya (Kiev, Ukraine) and the collection of the Natural History Museum in Pretoria, the Republic of South Africa, and of the author’s collections. The data on its distribution and phenology are provided.

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ARENBERGER, E., 2004.– Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera, Pterophoroidea).– In W. MEY (Ed.). The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia.– Esperiana Memoir, 1: 203-208.

KOVTUNOVICH, V. & USTJUZHANIN, P., 2011.– On the fauna of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Lesotho.– African Invertebrates, 52(1): 167-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0108

USTJUZHANIN, P. & KOVTUNOVICH, V., 2016.– New species of South African plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae).– Russian Entomological Journal, 25(2): 167-171. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.25.2.03

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2019-06-30

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Ustjuzhanin, P. Y., & Kovtunovich, V. N. (2019). New species of plume moths from South Africa (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) . SHILAP Revista De lepidopterología, 47(186), 379–381. https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.779

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