The First Neotropical Record of the Genus Urodeta (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) with Keys to the World Species and a Description of a New Species from Honduras [PDF]
InsectsThe genus Urodeta Stainton (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae) is recorded for the first time from the Neotropical region, with the description of a new species, Urodeta inerme sp. nov., from Honduras.
Virginijus Sruoga
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Commatarcha galicicae Tokár & Srnka, sp. nov., and a genus new for Europe (Lepidoptera, Carposinidae) [PDF]
Nota Lepidopterologica, 2023 Commatarcha galicicae Tokár & Srnka, sp. nov. is described from specimens taken in two south-eastern European localities, the Galičica Mountain in North Macedonia, and Dubova in Banat, Romania.
Zdenko Tokár +2 more
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ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE MALE GENITALIA IN LEPIDOPTERA [PDF]
The Canadian Entomologist, 1911 n ...
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Acleris sagarmanthae sp. n. a new species of Lepidoptera Tortricidae from Nepal
Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2013 A new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Acleris sagarmathae sp. n., from Nepal is described. The new species was collected in Lobuche, a locality of Sagarmatha National Park. A. sagarmathae is closest to A. formosae Razowski, 1964, but differs from the
P. Trematerra
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Ypsolopha chicoi sp. n., the second representative of the widespread micromoth genus Ypsolopha Latreille (Lepidoptera, Ypsolophidae) from the Andes of northern Chile [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The largest number of species of the widespread and highly diverse micromoth genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutoidea, Ypsolophidae) is known from the Northern Hemisphere.
Héctor Vargas
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Variation in the genitalia of the butterfly Maniola jurtina (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1993 The genilalia of animals, particularly insects, are extremely useful taxonomic characters, for they are highly conserved within species yet generally diverge rapidly during specialion: often the only reliable means of separating sibling species is via the morphology of the genilalia.
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Male genitalia variability in Craniophora ligustri (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acronictinae)
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2017 Craniophora ligustri is the most widely distributed species within the genus Craniophora. We used geometric morphometry to assess the shape variation of male valvae in the Western Palaearctic and Russian Far East populations of C. ligustri including the subspecies C. l. carbolucana and C. l. hyrcanica.
Kiss, Ádám +2 more
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Frontiers in Zoology, 2023 Abstract Background The process of copulation in Lepidoptera is understudied and poorly understood from a functional perspective. The purpose of the present paper is to study the interaction of the male and female genitalia of Tortrix viridana Linnaeus, 1758 via three-dimensional models of pairs fixed during copulation ...
Boyan Zlatkov +3 more
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ZooKeys, 2018 Herein Barsine podbolotskayae sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) is described from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago, Indonesia. This local endemic species externally resembles Barsine exclusa Butler, 1877 from Sundaland and the Andaman ...
Vitaliy M. Spitsyn, Ivan N. Bolotov
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The genus Agnathosia (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae) new to Japan, with a new record
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2022 Agnathosia obisagittalis Xiao & Li, 2011 (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae) was recorded from Japan for the first time. This is the first record of the genus from Japan. Photographs of the adult specimens and male genitalia were given.
Yohei Osada
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