Thiotricha scatebrosa ( Meyrick, 1918 ), 2024

Lee, Ga-Eun & Li, Houhun, 2024, A taxonomic review of Thiotricha Meyrick, 1886 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Thiotrichinae) from China, with descriptions of 84 new species, Zootaxa 5449 (1), pp. 1-222 : 123

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scientific name	Thiotricha scatebrosa ( Meyrick, 1918 )
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Thiotricha scatebrosa ( Meyrick, 1918) View in CoL

( Figs 1F View FIGURE 1 , 18D, E View FIGURE 18 , 26T View FIGURE 26 , 42B View FIGURE 42 , 59A View FIGURE 59 , 66A, B View FIGURE 66 , 72C View FIGURE 72 )

Semnostoma scatebrosa Meyrick, 1918: 128 View in CoL ; 1925: 103; Gaede, 1937: 307; Clarke, 1969: 367. TL: Assam, India. TD: NHMUK. Comb. nov.

Type material ( Figs 66A, B View FIGURE 66 , 72C View FIGURE 72 ). Holotype ♀, INDIA, Assam, Khasi Hills , vi.1906, genitalia slide no. J. F.G.C. 8386 ( NHMUK).

Additional material examined. CHINA: Yunnan Province: 1 ♀, Taiyanghe National Forest Park, 1626 m, Pu’er City , 8.vii.2013, leg. Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang and Kaijian Teng, genitalia slide no. LGE16130 ; 1 ♂, Taiyanghe Nature Reserves , 1450 m, 13.v.2014, leg. Zhenguo Zhang, genitalia slide no. LGE18293 ; 1 ♂, Taiyanghe Nature Reserves, Pu’er City , 8.vi.2015, leg. Zhenguo Zhang, genitalia slide no. LGE18342 ; 1 ♂, Taiyanghe National Forest Park (22.68°N, 101.03°E), 1450 m, Pu’er City , 6.vii.2015, leg. Kaijian Teng, genitalia slide nos. LGE18394. NW GoogleMaps THAILAND: 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, 1440m, Doi Suthep-Pui , 22, 23.ix.1986, leg. G. S. Robinson ( NHMUK) ; 7 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, 1380−1490m, Doi Suthep-Pui NP, 23.ii−21.xi.1989, leg. A. M. Cotton & I. J. Kitching, genitalia slide nos. NHMUK010317551 About NHMUK , NHMUK010317552 About NHMUK ( NHMUK) ; 1 ♂, Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep-Pui , 26−28.vii.1989, leg. J. D. & D. J. Bradley ( NHMUK) .

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs 1F View FIGURE 1 , 18D, E View FIGURE 18 ). Wingspan 10.5−12.0 mm. This species can be distinguished easily from its congeners by the tufted segment II of the labial palpus and the dark brownish forewing with dorsum broadly yellowish white. The male genitalia ( Fig. 42B View FIGURE 42 ) are characterized by the asymmetrical valvae with a strikingly narrowed base and a broad distal part, the strongly curved anellus lobe and the narrowly bifurcate apex of the aedeagus. The female genitalia ( Fig. 59A View FIGURE 59 ) are similar to those of T. rufimarginata and T. rhodomicta in having a well-sclerotized antrum and a semielliptical signum, but the antrum is broader and the apophyses anteriores are much longer in T. scatebrosa compared to those of latter two species.