Abstract

A new species of Stenoloba from the olivacea species group, Stenoloba solaris, sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), is described from Yunnan, China. Illustrations of the male holotype and its genitalia are provided. A diagnostic comparison is made with Stenoloba albistriata Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000, Stenoloba olivacea (Wileman, 1914), and Stenoloba benedeki Ronkay, 2001 (Fig. 4).

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  • Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 is an East Asian genus of the subfamily Bryophilinae

  • The first comprehensive revisions of the genus were published by Kononenko and Ronkay (2000, 2001) and Ronkay (2001) based on the East Palaearctic and northern Oriental species

  • Several articles have increased taxonomic knowledge of this large and very diverse genus including most notably a 2010 publication by Behounek & Kononenko which listed 75 species arranged into 14 species-groups

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A new species of Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Bryophilinae). Lafontaine | Received 13 March 2013 | Accepted 12 June 2013 | Published 17 June 2013 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E571669-1249-486C-853A-6232012767A9

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