New species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from China

Houhun Li; Oleksiy Bidzilya

doi:10.3897/zookeys.840.30434

New species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from China

Zookeys. 2019 Apr 17:840:101-131. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.840.30434. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Houhun Li¹, Oleksiy Bidzilya²

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China Nankai University Tianjin China.
² Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebedev str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kiev Ukraine.

Abstract

An annotated list of 71 species of the genus Scrobipalpa in China is given. Nine species of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 are described as new: S.triangulella sp. n. (Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi), S.punctulata sp. n. (Henan, Shanxi), S.septentrionalis sp. n. (Heilongjiang, Ningxia), S.zhongweina sp. n. (Ningxia), S.tripunctella sp. n. (Hebei, Ningxia, Shanxi), S.ningxica sp. n. (Ningxia), S.psammophila sp. n. (Ningxia), S.zhengi sp. n. (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia), and S.liui sp. n. (Shanxi). Scrobipalpagorodkovi Bidzilya, 2012 is synonymised with S.subnitens Povolný, 1967. The female of S.flavinerva Bidzilya & Li, 2010 is described for the first time. Two new combinations are proposed: Scrobipalpaperfecta (Povolný, 1996), comb. n., Scrobipalpasuaveolens (Povolný, 1996), comb. n. Twelve species of Scrobipalpa are recorded from China for the first time. Scrobipalpacryptica Povolný, 1996, S.proclivella (Fuchs, 1886) and S.smithi Povolný & Bradley, 1964 are removed from the list of Scrobipalpa of China due to misidentification.

Keywords: Gnorimoschemini; Palaearctic Region; new combination; new synonymy; taxonomy.