84. Ophiorrhabda cellifera (Meyrick, 1912) *

Polychrosis cellifera Meyrick, 1912, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 21: 869. Type locality: Sri Lanka, Ceylon [Sri Lanka] ( Colombo). Lectotype (♀): BMNH.

Argyroploce codonectis Meyrick, 1927, Exotic Microlepid. 3: 339. Type locality: Malay Peninsula. Malay States (Kuala Lumpur). Holotype (♀): BMNH.

Olethreutes cellifera (Meyrick, 1912): Clarke, 1958, British Museum (Natural History) 3: 495, pl. 246, Figs. 1–1b, 2-2b (wing, ♀ genitalia).

Lasiognatha cellifera (Meyrick, 1912): Diakonoff, 1973, Zool. Monogr. Rijksmus. Nat. Hist. 1: 431, Figs. 631–632, 637 (♂, ♀ genitalia).

Ophiorrhabda pottsi Clarke, 1976 (Ophiorrhabda), Insects Micronesia 9: 94. Type locality: Micronesia, “ Truk, Wena, Moen, Civil Administration Area”. Holotype (♀): USNM.

Ophiorrhabda cellifera (Meyrick, 1912): Horak et al., 1996, Monogr. Austral. Lepid. 4:132.

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka (Meyrick 1912a), Malaysia (Meyrick 1927), Micronesia (Clarke 1976), Vietnam (Nedoshivina 2013), Laos (Pinkaew & Phewphanh, 2017), India (Pathania et al. 2020), and Pakistan (Robinson et al. 2023).

Distribution in Thailand: C–– Nakhon Nayok Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.) and Phitsanulok Prov. (Mueang) (Roland, personal communication; KKIC).

Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars feed on Apocynaceae: Funtumia elastica, Fabaceae: Brownea sp., Lamiaceae: Pogostemon cablin, Malvaceae: Althaea sp., and Myrtaceae: Eugenia aquea, E. cumini, and E. malaccensis (Meyrick 1927; Robinson et al. 2023).

Remarks: This species is reported from Thailand for the first time. Specimen from Thailand was collected in the dry evergreen forest at 786 m.