Four new species of the genus Eudarcia Clemens, 1880 (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae) from Crimea

Abstract

Four species of the genus Eudarcia are described as new from Crimea: E. ajpetrica sp. nov., E. kimmeriella sp. nov., E. rutjani sp. nov. and E. zagulajevi sp. nov. All newly discovered species belong to the palanfreella-species group. The identification key, based on external and genitalia characters for the Eudarcia species from Crimea, is provided.

Complete mitochondrial genome of Eudarcia gwangneungensis (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae)

“…Family Meessiidae consists of two genera, Eudarcia Clemens, 1860 and Bathroxena Meyrick, 1919(Regier et al 2015. The genus Eudarcia was established with the type species Eudarcia simulatricella Clemens, 1860 and currently includes 77 species (Bidzilya et al 2016;Budashkin and Bidzilya 2018). Recently, Roh and Byun (2019) report the family Meessiidae for the first time from Korea: three new species of the genus Eudarcia: E. gwangneungensis Roh and Byun, 2019, E. longiphalla Roh and Byun, 2019, and E. cornea Roh and Byun, 2019, plus one unrecorded species, E. orbiculidomus (Sakai and Saigusa 1999).…”