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This paper presents information on the type specimens of four Microlepidoptera species described by S.N. Alphéraky: Leioptilus minutus Alphéraky, 1876, Aciptilia taganrogensis Alphéraky, 1876 (Pterophoridae), Alucita synnephodactyla Alphéraky, 1876, and Alucita grammodactyla Z. var. poecilodactyla Alphéraky, 1876 (Alucitidae). The following new synonymy is established: Tabulaephorus marptys (Christoph, 1872) = Aciptilia taganrogensis Alphéraky, 1876, syn. n.
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The work of S.Yu. Sinev was carried out within the framework of the State Research Project AAAA-A19-119020690101-6 and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 17-04-00754).
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 645–650.
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Ustjuzhanin, P.Y., Kovtunovich, V.N. & Sinev, S.Y. Type Specimens of Plume and Many-Plumed Moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae, Alucitidae) Described by S. N. Alphéraky in the Collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Entmol. Rev. 99, 556–559 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819040171
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