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Luquetia Leraut 1991

  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.

Description

Genus Luquetia Leraut, 1991

Luquetia Leraut, 1991; Alexanor, Revue française de Lépidoptérologie: 232.

Type species: Tinea lobella [Denis et Schiffermüller], 1775 (by original designation).

Distribution. Palaearctic: Europe, Russia (European part, North Caucasus, Far East), Transcaucasia, Central Asia (Tajikistan), NW China.

Host plants. Prunus spinosa, Sorbus and Crataegus (Rosaceae) (Lvovsky & Nedoshivina 2023; Robinson et al. 2023; Lepiforum e. V. 2024).

Species included. The genus includes six species of the world fauna: L. lobella ([Denis et Schiffermüller]), L. gissarella (Lvovsky), L. orientella (Rebel) (= abchasiella Lvovsky), L. osthelderi (Rebel), L. largimacularis Wang et Zheng and L. tigrina sp. nov. Three of them inhabit East Asia and two species are included in the fauna of Russian Far East.

Notes

Published as part of Ponomarenko, Margarita G. & Koshkin, Evgeny S., 2025, New species of the spring flat moths of the genera Semioscopis Hübner and Luquetia Leraut (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) from Far East of Russia with notes on related species, pp. 529-549 in Zootaxa 5666 (4) on page 545, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5666.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/16612084

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Leraut
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Oecophoridae
Genus
Luquetia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Luquetia Leraut, 1991 sec. Ponomarenko & Koshkin, 2025

References

  • Leraut, P. (1991) Contribution aI'etude des Oecophoridae (s. l.). 2. Deux nouveaux noms de genres (Lepidoptera). Alexanor. Revue francaise de Lepidopterologie, 17 (4), 232.
  • Lvovsky, A. L. & Nedoshivina, S. V. (2023) Flat moths of the family Depressariidae (Lepidoptera) Middle and Low Volga region. Corporation of technological advancement, Ulyanovsk, 128 pp., 2 colour pls.
  • Robinson, G. S., Ackery, Ph. R., Kitching, I., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2023) HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. Available from: https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a (accessed 20 January 2025)