Assessment of species diversity of the Lathrotelinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from the Philippines using morphology and DNA barcoding reveals eight new species

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Müller, Anne, Hayden, James, Lees, David C., Léger, Théo (2025): Assessment of species diversity of the Lathrotelinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from the Philippines using morphology and DNA barcoding reveals eight new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 18 (3): 594-617, DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2025.01.012, URL: doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2025.01.012 ABSTRACT Lathrotelinae is a recently rehabilitated subfamily of moths within Crambidae.

They can be recognized by the presence of costal median spots on the forewing, the absence of chaetosemata and the loss of the gnathos in the male genitalia. With the analysis of morphological characters and DNA barcodes, eight species authored by Müller, Hayden & Léger are described as new from the Philippines: Sufetula elfridea sp. nov., Sufetula falcata sp. nov., Sufetula fulgurata sp. nov., Sufetula gigantea sp. nov., Sufetula minuta sp. nov., Sufetula monticola sp. nov., Sufetula oculalis sp. nov. and Sufetula serrata sp. nov.