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Genetic differentiation and species diversification of the Adoxophyes orana complex (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in East Asia.
Journal of economic entomology - 10 Oct 2023
Tsai Cheng-Lung, Shih Li-Cheng, Yeh Wen-Bin, Byun Bong-Kyu, Jinbo Utsugi, Ning Fang-Yu, Sung I-Hsin
Abstract excerpt
The Adoxophyes tea tortrix (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a group of leaf rollers that cause enormous economic losses on tea and apple crops. In East Asia, taxonomic ambiguity of the Adoxophyes orana complex (AOC), which consists of A. orana, A. dubia, A. honmai, and A. paraorana, has persisted for decades because of vague diagnostic characters. In this study, differences in the AOC were examined to improve...
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