Théo Léger

Théo Léger, Swiss-French entomologist.

Muséum d’histoire naturelle, route de Malagnou 1, C. P. 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland.
Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
E-mail: theo.leger@mfn.berlin

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Landry, B. & Maes, J.M., Passoa, S.C. & Léger, T. 2015: Description of a new species of Myelobia Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s.l., Crambinae) from Nicaragua feeding on cultivated bamboo, Guadua aculeata Rupr. ex E. Fourn. (Poaceae). The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 48: 65–81. full article (PDF). Reference page.

Léger, T., Landry, B. & Nuss, M. 2019. Phylogeny, character evolution and tribal classification in Crambinae and Scopariinae (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). Systematic Entomology 44(4): 757–776. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12353 . Reference page.

Léger, T., Kehlmaier, C., Vairappan, C.S. & Nuss, M. 2020. Twenty-six new species of Hoploscopa (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from South-East Asia revealed by morphology and DNA barcoding. ZooKeys, 97: 1–99. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.907.36563 Reference page.
Léger, T., Mally, R., Neinhuis, C. & Nuss, M. 2020. Refining the phylogeny of Crambidae with complete sampling of subfamilies (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea). Zoologica Scripta Stockholm 50 2021. (1): 84–99. Reference page.

Bassi, G., Sáfián, S., Léger, T., Müller, G.C., Kravchenko, V.D. & Poltavsky, A.N. 2021. Ancylogastra, a new genus of Afrotropical Crambinae, with descriptions of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambidae). Zootaxa 5052(1): 42–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.2. . Reference page.
Mey & Léger 2021. Description of a new endemic genus of the Namib Desert and adjacent biomes in Namibia (Tineoidea: Tineidae: Hapsiferinae). Metamorphosis 32: 36–42. DOI: 10.4314/met.v32i1.7. . Full article (PDF)Reference page.
Mey, W., Léger, T. & Vu, V.L. 2021. New taxa of extant and fossil primitive moths in South-East Asia and their biogeographic significance (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae, Agathiphagidae, Lophocoronidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 44: 29-56. DOI: 10.3897/nl.44.52350. . Reference page.

Landry, B., Bilat, J., Hayden, J., Solis, M.A., Lees, D.C., Alvarez, N., Léger, T. & Gauthier, J. 2023. The identity of Argyria lacteella (Fabricius, 1794) (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambinae), synonyms, and related species revealed by morphology and DNA capture in type specimens. Zookeys 1146ː 1–42. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1146.96099 Reference page.

Huang, S-Y., Inayoshi, Y., Léger, T. & Espeland, M. 2024. The riodinid taxa described by Rudolf Emil Mell (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Riodinidae), with notes on related ones. Zootaxa 5481(5): 591–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.5.8. . Reference page.