[Entomology • 2018] Aschistophleps ignisquamulata • A New Species of Aschistophleps (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) from Thailand and Laos, with A New Generic Synonymy

[1, 3, 4] Aschistophleps ignisquamulata Kallies & Štolc, 2018
 [2] A. cucphuonganae comb. nov. 

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.11 

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Abstract

We here describe a new clearwing moth species, Aschistophleps ignisquamulata sp. nov., from northern Thailand and Laos. This striking new species differs from all other species of Osminiini in both external appearance and genitalia and displays characteristics that indicate that Pyrophleps Arita & Gorbunov is a junior subjective synonym of Aschistophleps (syn. nov.).

Keywords: Lepidoptera, south-eastern Asia, clearwing moths, pheromones, Osminiini, ignisquamulata, Pyrophleps

  1-4. Aschistophleps species and habitat.
1. Aschistophleps ignisquamulata spec. nov., holotype, Thailand. 2. A. cucphuonganae comb. nov., Vietnam.
3. A. ignisquamulata spec. nov., paratype, male genitalia. 4. Type locality of A. ignisquamulata spec. nov. in Thailand.

Aschistophleps ignisquamulata spec. nov.

Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin ignis (fire) and squamula (scale).

Axel Kallies and VladimÍr Štolc. 2018. A New Species of Aschistophleps from Thailand and Laos, with A New Generic Synonymy (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae). Zootaxa. 4446(4); DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.11

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