Carposina, Herrich-Schaffer, 1853

Medeiros, Matthew J., Bianchi, Griffin L., Taschetta, Laurel R. & Oboyski, Peter T., 2016, A review of Polynesian Carposina Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Carposinidae), with descriptions of four new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1), pp. 135-146 : 138-139

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12363

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Carolina

scientific name

Carposina
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GENUS CARPOSINA View in CoL HERRICH- SCHÄFFER, 1853

Carposina are typical of the Carposinidae with upturned or porrect labial palpi, often longer in the female, absence of chaemata and patches of raised scales on the dorsal surface of the forewing. In Carposina , male

genitalia have uncus greatly reduced or absent, absence of socii and well-developed gnathos arms.

CARPOSINA BREVINOTATA sP. nOV., MEDEIROS &

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Carposinidae

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