Two new species of Palpifer Hampson (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Yunnan, China
Two new species of the genus Palpifer Hampson, 1893 are described. The first species, named P. qinglai sp. nov. from Yunnan University in Kunming, Yunnan, China, is similar to P. sexnotatus (Moore, 1879) but distinguished by differences in forewing pattern, male genitalia structure and DNA barcode sequence. The second species, named P. bazi sp. nov. from Mengzi, Honghe, Yunnan, China, resembles P. boonei Grehan & Mielke, 2019 but also differs in the same characteristics.
Authors
- Zhen‐Bang Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8143-3064)
- John R. Grehan
- Shao‐Ji Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1615-9601)
- Hao-Lin Gan
- Zi-Xiang YANG
Institutions
- Yunnan University (CN)
- Yunnan Institute of Environmental Sciences (CN)
- Education Department of Hunan Province (CN)
- University of the Philippines Open University (PH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zootaxa
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.5.4
- Primary Topic
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00