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Three new genera of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) from deserts of middle Asia, with remarks on the evolution of the family

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Analysis of specific morphological and biological features of the family Scythrididae has shown that the main evolutionary trend of this family is based on abrupt changes in the structure of the copulatory apparatus. Such changes result from its initial complexity and lead to appearance of numerous monotypic genera. Three new monotypic genera from the Kyzyl-Kum Desert are established, descriptions of their type species are given.

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Original Russian Text © M.I. Falkovitsh, 2011, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2011, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 208–215.

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Falkovitsh, M.I. Three new genera of scythridid moths (Lepidoptera, Scythrididae) from deserts of middle Asia, with remarks on the evolution of the family. Entmol. Rev. 91, 773–777 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873811060108

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