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Two new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Madagascar are described: Alucita meloui sp. n. and Alucita murzini sp. n. A new synonymy is established: Alucita dohertyi (Walsingham, 1909) = Alucita decariella (Viette, 1958), syn. n.
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Original Russian Text © P.Ya. Ustjuzhanin, V.N. Kovtunovich, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 889–891.
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Ustjuzhanin, P.Y., Kovtunovich, V.N. Two new species of the many-plumed moth genus Alucita Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Madagascar. Entmol. Rev. 96, 1115–1118 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816080169
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