New and little known species of the genus Casmara Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Southeast Asia
A.L. Lvovsky
Abstract. Two new species of the genus Casmara Walker, C. nedoshivinae sp. nov. and C. subagronoma sp. nov. are described from Vietnam, China and Indonesia. Casmara exculta (Meyrick, 1914) is recorded from Vietnam and Indonesia for the first time.
Key words: moths, taxonomy, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae, Casmara, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2013, 22(1): 107-110 ▪ Published in print 25 June 2013
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2013.22.1.107 ▪ Open full article 
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