Description of a new species from the genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from the Solomon Islands

0495135 - BC 2019 RIV NZ eng J - Journal Article
Bucsek, K. - Rindoš, Michal
Description of a new species from the genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from the Solomon Islands.
Zootaxa. Roč. 4504, č. 1 (2018), s. 135-137. ISSN 1175-5326. E-ISSN 1175-5334
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Eugoa * Lepidoptera * Solomon Islands
OECD category: Entomology
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Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4504.1.8

The genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 belongs to the tribe Lithosiini and occurs across the Old World, excluding the Western Palearctic Region. Currently, it contains around 120 species, most of them distributed across Asia. Ten additional species have been described from Australasia. Since the 19th century, several authors have addressed the taxonomy of the genus Eugoa, but only a few described their habitat preferences. These small to medium sized moths with brown, or brown—cream coloured forewings inhabit a wide range of forest types (e.g. alluvial, dipterocarp, heath, kerangas, etc.) from mangroves and lowland-coastal forests (about 300m asl) up to upper montane forests (about 1500 m asl). Unfortunately, life history data for species in the genus Eugoa still remain unavailable. Here, we present a new species from Guadalcanal Island recovered by M. Rindoš during a study of the Lepidoptera collection of NMPC.
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