Scythris cassiterella, (SNELLEN, 1884)

D’Entrèves, P. & Roggero, A., 2006, New And Little-Known Species Of Scythridid Moths Collected By Z. Kaszab In Mongolia (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (1), pp. 49-75 : 64

S. cassiterella ( SNELLEN, 1884)

Scythris cassiterella (SNELLEN) , Tijdschr. Ent. 27: 178.

Material. 1 m (Genital slide no. 4074 Passerin d’Entrèves), MONGOLIA: Bulgan aymag 20 km NW of somon Chanžargalant , 1350 m, 1968 Kaszab Expedition , 16.VI.1968 .

Distribution. The species is known from eastern Siberia, Central Asia, northwestern Mongolia and Korea.

Remarks. The host plants are unknown but the species was collected on a gradually declivitous slope, where Thymus was the dominant plant. In Mongolia, the species was collected in June in a forest steppe area near a coniferous wood. S. baikalensis BENGTSSON et LIŠKA (1996) was synonymized with S. cassiterella by SINEV (2001 a), who also remarked that the drawings in FALKOVITCH (1981) and BENGTSSON and LIŠKA (1996) do not refer to S. cassiterella , but to a new species, S. macrourella ( SINEV, 2001 a, b).