[Entomology • 2025] Pterotopteryx ivonini, P. elenaivshinae & P. ismailovi • First Records of Many-plumed Moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Laos

 

[3, 3a] Pterotopteryx ivonini
[8, 8a] P. ismailovi 

Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2025

 DOI: doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.93.14

Abstract

Three new species of many-plumed moths are described from Laos: Pterotopteryx ivonini Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n., Pterotopteryx elenaivshinae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n., and Pterotopteryx ismailovi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n. The first image of the male genitalia of Pterotopteryx toxophila (Meyrick, 1906), comb. n. This work reports the first records of many-plumed moths from Laos.

Pterotopteryx ivonini Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n.
3. Adult, male (Holotype, ZISP);  3a. Reconstructed image of adult in dorsal view.  

Pterotopteryx ismailovi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n.
 8. Adult, female (Holotype, ZISP);
8a. Reconstructed image of adult in dorsal view.

 Pterotopteryx ivonini Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n. 

 Pterotopteryx elenaivshinae Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n. 

 Pterotopteryx ismailovi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n.

Vasily Kovtunovich, Petr Ustjuzhanin. 2025. First Records of Many-plumed Moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Laos. Ecologica Montenegrina. 93; 157-167.  DOI: doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.93.14