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Abstract
Four new species of the genus Calamotropha Zeller are described from China: Calamotropha duofurcata sp. nov., Calamotropha abrupta sp. nov., Calamotropha aequilata sp. nov. and Calamotropha unispinea sp. nov. Three species are redescribed: Calamotropha formosella Bleszynski, Citation1961, Calamotropha josettae Bleszynski, Citation1961 and Calamotropha melli (Caradja and Meyrick, Citation1933). Calamotropha latella (Snellen, Citation1890) is newly recorded for China. Images of adults and illustrations of genitalia of the new species and the redescribed species are provided. A checklist and a key to the known Chinese species are presented, along with a map showing the distribution of these species.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Roger C. Kendrick (Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong) for the field company in the Microlepidoptera expedition to Hong Kong. We are also indebted to the following persons for collecting specimens when they were pursuing their doctoral degrees at Nankai University under the guidance of the corresponding author: Bingbing Hu (Nankai University, Tianjin), Shulian Hao (Natural History Museum of Tianjin, Tianjin), Ping You (Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an), Haili Yu (Northwest University, Xi'an), Xinpu Wang (Hebei University, Baoding), Yingdang Ren (Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou), Yanli Du (Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing). Special thanks are given to reviewers for their kind advice. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. J1210005).