Genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892

Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892, in Romanoff, Mémoires sur les Lépidoptéres 6: 381. Type-species: Dichagyris jankowskii Oberthür, 1884, Etudes d’Entomologie 10: 28, Pl. 3: 5, by monotypy. Type-locality: [Russia, Primorye terr.], Sidemi. Synonymy: Neothripa Hampson, 1894; Lepidopyga Warren, 1914; Conicochita Hampson, 1918.

Stenoloba is an exclusively East Asian genus, which replaces the other genera of the subfamily Bryophilinae (i.e., Palaearctic Cryphia, Bryophila and Victrix) in South East Asia. The genus Stenoloba has recently been revised and redescribed by Kononenko & Ronkay (2000, 2001). The Chinese fauna of the genus was reviewed by Han & Kononenko (2009), and those of South East Asia by Behounek & Kononenko (2010). The genus is extremely diverse in the south of China and northern Vietnam, in total numbering 77 species and 40 species in China (inclusive of the present new species, new record of S. speideli and recently described S. viridicollar Pekarsky, 2011 (Pekarsky 2011) .