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Genus Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from China: Descriptions of ten new species

Fourteen new species of the genus Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 are described: S. apicihamata S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. sphaeroidea S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. delitescens S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. ferrorufa S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. jinxiuensis S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. laiyangensis S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. miniloba S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. paradiplaspis S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. similignominiosa S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. paraxanthostigma S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. sufusciumeraris S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. trigonia S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov., S. trilobata S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov. and S. xanthostigma S. Wang & Guan, sp. nov.; ten species are newly recorded for China: S. aprica Meyrick, 1913, S. balanarcha Meyrick, 1921, S. callicarpicola Terada, 2012, S. cissota Meyrick, 1913, S. culcitella Sinev, 1995, S. diplaspis (Meyrick, 1887), S. flavescens Kuznetzov, 1984, S. gemmiconsuta Terada, 2012, S. placida Meyrick, 1908 and S. xanthomochla Meyrick, 1913. Images of both adults and genitalia are provided, along with two maps showing the distribution of them in China.

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January 2021

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Genus Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from China: Descriptions of thirteen new species

Ten new species of the genus Stathmopoda are described: S. basirotata sp. nov., S. bicoloriptera sp. nov., S. bucera sp. nov., S. hamulata sp. nov., S. ochricolorata sp. nov., S. octacantha sp. nov., S. pyriformis sp. nov., S. rhombica sp. nov., S. tetracantha sp. nov. and S. tristriata sp. nov. Also, three species: S. citrinella Sinev, 1995, S. orbiculata Meyrick, 1913 and S. tecticochlea Terada, 2016 are newly recorded for China. Images of both adults and genitalia for the species are provided, along with a map showing the distribution of them in China.

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August 2020

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Genus Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from China: Descriptions of thirteen new species

Thirteen new species of the genus Stathmopoda are described from China: S. atrifusca sp. nov., S. cellifaria sp. nov., S. cornuta sp. nov., S. digitiprocessa sp. nov., S. dolichantha sp. nov., S. falsistimulata sp. nov., S. guangxiensis sp. nov., S. ingena sp. nov., S. liberata sp. nov., S. purpurata sp. nov., S. serrifasciaria sp. nov., S. similatridorsalis sp. nov. and S. spinicornuta sp. nov. Images of both adults and genitalia of the new species are provided, along with a map showing the distribution of these species.

... Each insect group must be analyzed to decide which kind of feeding prevails. In Lepidoptera (Fig. 3B), a similar case can be made with Stathmopodidae, which comprise many species that are feeding specifically on fern spores (Sawamura et al. 2009), but not necessarily toward a specific fern genus or family (Park et al. 2018;Shen and Hsu 2020;Wang et al. 2020). Several species of Stathmopoda have been recorded on a single fern species (e.g., Stathmopoda elyella on the mangrove fern Acrostichum aureum) and other species (e.g., Stathmopoda aenea) have been encountered on members of several fern families indicating their lower degree of specialization and capacity to host plant switching (Balick et al. 1978). ...
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A global review and network analysis of phytophagous insect interactions with ferns and lycophytes

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