A new Polylopha species attacking cinnamon trees in Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Chlidanotinae: Polyorthini)
John B Heppner1, Yang-Seop Bae2
1McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. . jheppner@flmnh.ufl.edu.
Zootaxa
|April 7, 2022
Abstract:
Polylopha vietnama sp. nov. (Tortricidae: Chlidanotinae: Polyorthini), a new pest of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, Lauraceae), is described from northern Vietnam. A related species, Lopharcha ditissima Diakonoff (1974) from Indonesia (Java), is transferred to the genus Polylopha, as P. ditissima (Diakonoff) comb. nov., resulting in nine species for the genus.
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