Promalactis fuscimacularis, Wang & Liu, 2021

Wang, Shuxia & Liu, Chen, 2021, Taxonomic study of the genus Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera Oecophoridae) XI. The rubra species-group and the fuscimacularis species-group with descriptions of six new species, Zootaxa 4996 (2), pp. 309-321 : 313

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4996.2.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2D49FEDC-9852-4C62-AE92-11668FD51B6C

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87A7-FFE0-FF8E-BA84-F9ADDAC3F8EE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Promalactis fuscimacularis
status

 

The fuscimacularis species-group

Diagnostic characters. Moths of the fuscimacularis species - group are characterized by the forewing always having a dark basal spot or having a dark elongate anterobasal patch.

Male and female genitalia are highly diverse, and all the species do not have a unique character in common.

This group includes eight previously described species and three new species described below.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Oecophoridae

Genus

Promalactis

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