Leif Aarvik

Leif Aarvik (born 1954), Norwegian entomologist.

  • Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway.
  • E-mail: leif.aarvik@nhm.uio.no

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

  • 37 taxon names authored by Leif Aarvik

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2010

  • Razowski, J., & de Prins, J. 2010. An annotated catalogue of the types of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) with descriptions of new genera and new species. Zootaxa 2469: 1–77. Preview Reference page. 
  • 2010. Review of East African Cochylini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with description of new species. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 57(2): 81–108. Abstract (PDF) Reference page.

2012

  • , Karisch, T. & Marthinsen, G. 2012. Review of the Afrotropical genus Dracontogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight new species. Zootaxa 3478: 345–372. Preview Reference page. 
  • Mutanen, M., , Landry, J.-F., Segerer, A.H. & Karsholt, O. 2012. Epinotia cinereana (Haworth, 1811) bona sp., a Holarctic tortricid distinct from E. nisella (Clerck, 1759) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini) as evidenced by DNA barcodes, morphology and life history. Zootaxa 3318: 1–25. Preview Reference page. 

2014

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2021

  • Park, K.T. & 2021. Two new species of the genus Thubdora Park and a new species of Ptilothyris Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Lecithoceridae) from Uganda. Zootaxa 4926(4): 590–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.4.9. Paywall. Reference page. 

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2025

  • 2025. Taxonomic notes on African Tortricidae I: Simpligena auromarginea gen. nov., sp. nov., a peculiar new genus and species of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Tanzania. Metamorphosis 36: 1–3. Full article (PDF). Reference page.