Monopis pallidella Zagulajev, 1955

Gaedike, Reinhard & Šumpich, Jan, 2017, Tinea altaica sp. nov. and new records of some small moths from the Russian Altai (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae, Tineidae, Douglasiidae, Epermeniidae, Glyphipterigidae: Acrolepiinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 259-273 : 267

Monopis pallidella Zagulajev, 1955

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Material examined. RUSSIA: ALTAI REPUBLIC: 45 km N of Ulagan village, Chulyshman valley, 51°01′03″N, 88°00′39″E, 600 m a.s.l., grassy steppe, rocks, 27.–28.vi.2015, 3 JJ (gen. prep. Gaedike 8938), J. Šumpich leg. ( NMPC).

Distribution. From Romania to Georgia and through Central Asia ( Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan) to Siberia, Mongolia and China. In Russia, it occurs from the European regions to the Primorsky Region but it was hitherto unknown from the Altai Mountains. The first record for the Altai Republic.

Figures

Figs 1–9. Voucher specimens of species newly recorded in the Russian Altai. 1 – Scardia boletella (Fabricius, 1794) (Shebalino District, Cherga, J, 38 mm); 2 – Crassicornella crassicornella (Zeller, 1847) (Tashanta env., Ulandryk valley, J, 9 mm); 3 – Tineola bisselliella (Hummel, 1823) (Aktash, J, 12 mm); 4 – Tinea hongorella Zagulajev, 1975 (Kurai env., Dshangyskol lake,J, 11 mm); 5 – Trichophaga ziniella Zagulajev, 1960 (Chulyshman valley, J, 21 mm); 6 – Monopis laevigella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (Aktash, ♀, 20 mm); 7 – M. pallidella Zagulajev, 1955 (Chulyshman valley, J, 11 mm); 8 – Epermenia ochreomaculella asiatica Gaedike, 1979 (Tashanta env., Ulandryk valley, J, 14 mm); 9 – Acrolepiopsis sapporensis (Matsumura, 1931) (Chulyshman valley, J, 13 mm).