Three new species of the genus Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae) from Zhejiang, China

Abstract

This paper deals with five species of the genus Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 from Zhejiang, China. Dichomeris parallelivalvata sp. nov., Dichomeris columnaria sp. nov., and Dichomeris latifurcata sp. nov. are described as new; Dichomeris silvestrella (Ponomarenko, 1998) comb. nov. and Dichomeris beljaevi (Ponomarenko, 1998) comb. nov. are newly recorded for China. Images of adults and genitalia are provided.

Keywords

• China
• Dichomeris
• Gelechiidae
• Lepidoptera
• new species