Cosmoclostis auxileuca (Meyrick, 1908)

Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya., Kovtunovich, V. N. & Streltzov, A. N., 2020, A NEW SPECIES AND A NEW RECORD OF PLUME MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA: PTEROPHORIDAE) FROM BORNEO ISLAND, Far Eastern Entomologist 408, pp. 21-24 : 23-24

Cosmoclostis auxileuca (Meyrick, 1908)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Malaysia: Sabah Province, Tambunan Gunung, Daerah, Alab

Resort, 1650 m, 20–25.VIII 2012, 1 ♂, leg. V. & S. Sinyaev .

DISTRIBUTION. India: Khasis, Assam (Meyrick, 1908; Fletcher, 1931); Malaysia (new record).

NOTES. This species has been recorded from Sabah Province of Malaysia as Cosmoclostis sp. (Ustjuzhanin et al., 2018) .

We express our gratitude to Mikhail Omelko (Gornotayozhnoye, Ussuriyskii District,

Primorskii krai, Russia) for the collected specimens, and to Sergey Reshetnikov (Novosibirsk,

Russia), for the photo of the adult.