New species of “giant” plume moths of the genus Platyptilia (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from Uganda

  • Peter Ustjuzhanin Altai State University, Lenina 61, Barnaul 656049
  • Vasiliy Kovtunovich Moscow Society of Nature Explorers; Home address: Malaya Filevskaya str. 24/1, app. 20, Moscow 121433
  • Anna Ustjuzhanina National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina 30, Tomsk 634050
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.172
Keywords: Pterophoridae, Platyptilia, Uganda, Rwenzori Mountains, new species

Abstract

This paper describes two new species of plume moths from the group of the so-called “giant” Platyptilia Hubner, 1825: Platyptilia fletcheri Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich sp. nov. and P. stanleyi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich sp. nov. Both species were collected in the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda and Rwanda, respectively. Platyptilia stanleyi Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich sp. nov. exceeds all the known African species of Pterophoridae in its wingspan of 49 mm.

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Published
2016-01-18
How to Cite
Ustjuzhanin, P., Kovtunovich, V., & Ustjuzhanina, A. (2016). New species of “giant” plume moths of the genus Platyptilia (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from Uganda. European Journal of Taxonomy, (172). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.172
Issue
No. 172 (2016): New species of “giant” plume moths of the genus Platyptilia (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from Uganda
Section
Entomology
Copyright (c) 2016 Peter Ustjuzhanin, Vasiliy Kovtunovich, Anna Ustjuzhanina

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