Stathmopoda stimulata Meyrick, 1913

Sahoo, Kishore Chandra, 2025, A catalogue of Indian Stathmopodidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), Zootaxa 5711 (4), pp. 482-504 : 498

45. Stathmopoda stimulata Meyrick, 1913

Stathmopoda stimulata Meyrick, 1913 , Exot. Microlepid. 1: 84.

TL: Sri Lanka [ Ceylon], Colombo , Kandy , Maskeliya , Madulsima; India, Assam, Khasi Hills (presently, in Meghalaya).

TD: Lectotype ♂, NHMUK ( Kasy 1973).

Distribution: In India: Meghalaya, Karnataka (Coorg); Elsewhere: Sri Lanka: Colombo, Kandy, Maskeliya, Madulsima; China: Sichuan [Szetschwan], Kwanhsien, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands; Malaysia; Indonesia; Vietnam; Thailand; Brunei; North Korea; South Korea (Meyrick 1913; Kasy 1973; Sinev & Park 1994; Kendrick 2004, 2010; Koçak & Kemal 2012; Terada 2014; Park et al. 2018).

Illustrations: Male genitalia; female genitalia ( Kasy 1973: abb. 84–86; Terada 2014: fig. 48–52; Park et al. 2018: fig. 2C, 3C); habitus ( Terada 2015: pl. LXVII, fig. c; Park et al. 2018: fig. 1C); wing venation (male & female) ( Terada 2015: pl. LVI, fig. d, e).

Host: Cinnamomum tenuifolium ( Lauraceae ) (Terada 2014).

Remarks: Stathmopoda “ timulata” Meyrick, 1915, is an incorrect spelling (misprinting) of Stathmopoda stimulata Meyrick, 1913 ( Sinev 2015).