Mesophleps argonota ( Lower, 1901 ) Li & Sattler, 2012

Li, Houhun & Sattler, Klaus, 2012, A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 3373, Zootaxa 3373, pp. 1-82 : 55-56

Mesophleps argonota ( Lower, 1901) comb. nov.

( Figs 117, 149)

Ypsolophus argonota Lower, 1901 , Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 25: 81. LECTOTYPE ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Broken Hill , x. (Lower) (SAM), here designated [examined].

Megacraspedus argonota (Lower) ; Meyrick 1925: 34; Edwards 1996: 113.

Genitalia ♂. Not examined.

Genitalia ♀ ( Figs 117, 149). Papillae anales very long, more than one-half length of apophyses posteriores, narrow, distally rounded, sparsely set with short sensory setae. Apophyses posteriores slightly longer than apophyses anteriores. Segment VIII short, at most one-third length of apophyses anteriores; ostium bursae near anterior margin of VIII; antrum with narrow sclerotization of about length of VIII; ductus bursae straight, narrow, shorter than apophyses anteriores; corpus bursae large, ovoid, ductus seminalis from cervix bursae, inception in patch of microtrichia (“signum”).

Remarks. Y. argonota was described from three specimens (both sexes) from Broken Hill, x. (Lower). In coll. Lower there are two females. One of them is labelled as type and is here designated as the lectotype. The second female is labelled ‘15.10.[18]90’ and is in poor condition with only the head, pro- and mesothorax and the forewings preserved.

Biology. Host-plant unknown.

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales). Material examined (3 ♀♀, including 1 ♀ genitalia preparation) Australia: 1 ♀, lectotype (as above); 1 ♀, Broken Hill, 15.x.1890 (Lower) (paralectotype); 1 ♀, New South

Wales, Mootwingee National Park , Homestd Gorge, 31°17'S 142°18'E, 9.x.1988 (Edwards) .

Species excluded from Mesophleps

The following nine species were originally described in Mesophleps or at one time associated with that genus (or one of its generic synonyms) but were or have to be transferred to other genera: