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Three new species of the plume-moth genus Pterophorus Schäffer, 1766 (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) are described from the Indo-Malayan Region: Pterophorus vikhrevi sp. n. from Malaysia (Sabah Island), P. ceylonicus sp. n. from the Republic of Sri Lanka, and P. laocaiensis sp. n. from Vietnam. A list of all the species of this genus known for these countries is given.
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Original Russian Text © P.Ya. Ustjuzhanin, V.N. Kovtunovich, 2015, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 848–851.
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Ustjuzhanin, P.Y., Kovtunovich, V.N. Three new species of the genus Pterophorus Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from the Indo-Malayan Region. Entmol. Rev. 95, 1251–1256 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815090146
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