Bactra minima Meyrick, 1909

Muadsub, Sopita & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2023, The first checklist of the tribe Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) of Thailand, Zootaxa 5349 (1), pp. 1-65 : 11-12

19. Bactra minima Meyrick, 1909

Bactra minima Meyrick, 1909 , J. Bombay Nat . Hist. Soc. 19: 586. Type locality: Sri Lanka, Ceylon ( Barberyn Island ). Lectotype (♁): NHM.

Bactra phaeopis Meyrick, 1911 , Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 36: 254. Type locality: New Guinea, Sudest Island . Lectotype (♁): NHM.

Bactra anpingiana Strand, 1920 , Archiv f. Naturgesch. 84(A)(12): 192 Type locality: Taiwan (Formosa). Holotype (unknown): DEIB.

Bactra microtripta Meyrick, 1927 , Insects Samoa 3(2): 75. Type locality: Samoan Islands , “Upolu, Apia, Malololelei”. Holotype (♀): NHM.

Bactra minima psila Diakonoff, 1964 , Zool. Verh. Leiden 70: 79. Type locality: Canary Islands “Canary Islands (Tenerife)”. Holotype (♁): NHM.

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka ( Meyrick 1909), Papua New Guinea ( Meyrick, 1911), Samoan

Is. ( Meyrick 1927), Ponape Is., Marianas Is., and Solomon Is., ( Diakonoff 1956), Azores Is. and Canary Is. ( Diakonoff 1964), Indonesia and Philippine Is. ( Diakonoff 1973), China ( Kawabe et al. 1992), and India ( Pathania et al. 2020).

Distribution in Thailand: N–– Chiang Mai Prov. (Doi Inthanon N.P.) ( Kawabe 1989).

Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars feed on Cyperaceae : Cyperus rotundus and C. esculentus ( Clarke 1976; Wang 1978; Robinson et al. 2023).

Remarks: Specimen from Thailand was collected in hill evergreen forest at 1,300 m.