A new Indian species of shoot and capsule borer of the genus Conogethes (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), feeding on cardamom

作者：Shashank P R^*; Kammar Vasudev; Mally Richard; Chakravarthy A K

来源：Zootaxa, 2018, 4374(2): 215-234.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.4374.2.3

• Conogethes
• yellow peach moth
• shoot and capsule borer
• India
• cardamom
• DNA barcode
• phylogenetic analysis

A new species, Conogethes sahyadriensis sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), feeding on cardamom, is described from India. The species status is supported by diagnostic morphology as well as by genetic data. A phylogenetic analysis based on the publicly available Conogethes COI barcode sequences finds C. sahyadriensis as sister to C. pluto, and it further reveals a number of clades that potentially represent additional undescribed species. The new species is delineated from closely related and superficially similar species of Conogethes.

• 出版日期2018-1-18