Sycacantha catharia Diakonoff, 1973

Feng, Weixing, Zhuang, Jialiang & Yu, Haili, 2019, Sycacantha Diakonoff, 1959 from China, with the descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae), Zootaxa 4691 (3), pp. 201-214 : 206

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4691.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587454
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scientific name	Sycacantha catharia Diakonoff, 1973
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Material examined. China: 1♂, Jianfeng town, (18º69’N, 108°78’E), Ledong , Hainan province, alt. 40 m, 30.IV.2014, leg. Tengteng Liu, Wei Guan and Xuemei Hu ; 1♂, Is. Hebao (21º86’N, 113°17’E), Zhuhai , Guangdong Province, alt. 30 m, 18.V.2010, leg. Bingbing Hu and Jing Zhang.

Distribution. China (Hainan, Guangdong), Indonesia.

Remarks. This species resembles S. inodes ( Meyrick, 1911) in the male genitalia, but it can be separated from the latter by the truncate apex of the valva and cornuti consisting of a sheaf of short, weak spines. In S. inodes , the valva is rounded apically and the cornuti consist of a sheaf of long spines.

Note. This species is newly recorded from China.