Review of the genus Scaeosopha Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Scaeosophinae) in the world, with descriptions of sixteen new species
Author
Li, Houhun
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
lihouhun@nankai.edu.cn
Author
Zhang, Zhiwei
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & College of Forestry, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi 030801, China
Author
Sinev, Sergey Yu.
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-05-23
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Scaeosopha pseusta
(
Diakonoff, 1968
)
Scaeothyris pseusta
Diakonoff, 1968: 164
;
Sinev, 2002: 38
.
Scaeosopha pseusta
,
Ponomarenko
et
Park, 1997: 287
(combination).
Type material.
Holotype
♂
,
PHILIPPINES
:
Mt. Mckinley
,
Mindanao
,
Davao Province
,
3000 ft.
,
14.ix.1946
, coll.
H. Hoogstraal
, genitalia slide no. 5790 (
FMNH
, Chicago) [examined].
Paratypes
:
2 ♂
, 13,
25.ix.1946
, genitalia slide no. 5760 (
FMNH
, Chicago) [examined]
.
Distribution.
Philippines
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
S
.
percnaula
Meyrick
in the male genitalia, but the adult is larger than that of the latter species, and the forewing lacks distinct markings.