LEPIDOPTERA, Linnaeus, 1758

Ponomarenko, M. G., 2020, New species of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from the south of the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 421, pp. 14-26 : 14

( LEPIDOPTERA : YPSOLOPHIDAE ) FROM THE SOUTH OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

M. G. Ponomarenko 1, 2)

1) Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. E-mail: [e-mail]

2) Far Eastern Federal University, Russky Island, Vladivostok, 690922, Russia.

Summary. An analysis of the mtCOI sequences in the species from the genus Ypsolopha

Latreille, 1796 made it possible to confirm a new species for science, Y. occultatella sp. n.,

morphologically similar to the East Asian species Y. yasudai Moriuti, 1964 . The genetic distance between the mtCOI sequences in Y. occultatella sp. n. and Y. yasudai is 0,066 –

0,069 (6,6–6,9 %). However, the minimal genetic distance, 0,038 –0,042 (3,8–4,2 %), was determined between the mtCOI sequences of the new species and Y. blandella (Christoph,

1882), while these species differ well in the forewing pattern.