Kearfottia japonica Saigusa and Sugimoto, 2021

Saigusa, Toyohei & Sugimoto, Mika, 2021, The first record of the Nearctic genus Kearfottia Fernald, 1904 (Lepidoptera Psychidae) from the Palaearctic Region (Japan), Zootaxa 4915 (4), pp. 547-558 : 548

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.4.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9052CF82-BF7B-49FD-A1FA-91B5024519D7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4461612

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F917-DD2C-BE50-5EF0-F9DDFEBCF8A5

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Kearfottia japonica Saigusa and Sugimoto
status

sp. nov.

Kearfottia japonica Saigusa and Sugimoto , sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Very similar to Kearfottia albifasciella Fernald, 1904 in coloration of vestiture. Forewing upperside black with a wide transverse yellowish white band more or less widened posteriorly, and with marginal and often submarginal series of minute yellowish spots. Male genitalia with valvae lacking saccular process and with elongate, slender saccus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Eriocottidae

Genus

Kearfottia

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