Ecologica Montenegrina 30: 77-81 (2020) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.30.7 https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD97C42C-318E-4B64-B46F-18348EBF49D5 A new monotypic genus of the subfamily Chilecomadiinae Dyar, 1940 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from South America FERNANDO C. PENCO1, ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV*2,3 & ARTEM E. NAYDENOV2 1Fundación de Historia Natural “Félix de Azara”, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropología, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775 piso 7 (1405BDB) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail:
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[email protected] 3Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia Received 10 March 2020 │ Accepted by V. Pešić: 12 April 2020 │ Published online 15 April 2020. Abstract The article describes a new genus, Miacorella Penco, Yakovlev & Naydenov gen. n. (Lepidoptera, Cossidae, Chilecomadiinae) (type species, by monotypy – Miacora leucocraspedontis Zukowsky, 1954). The neotype M. leucocraspedontis is allocated, the new combination Miacorella leucocraspedontis (Zukowsky, 1954), comb. n., is established. The species is distributed in Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The distributional map is given. The article has 16 illustrations. Key words: Carpenter moths, new genus, neotype, taxonomy, Neotropics. Introduction The study of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) from South America are still at the initial