Agrioscelis tacita Meyrick, 1913

Sahoo, Kishore Chandra, 2025, A catalogue of Indian Stathmopodidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), Zootaxa 5711 (4), pp. 482-504 : 490

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scientific name	Agrioscelis tacita Meyrick, 1913
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11. Agrioscelis tacita Meyrick, 1913

Agrioscelis tacita Meyrick, 1913 , Exot. Microlepid. 1: 96.

= Stathmopoda tacita (Meyrick, 1913) .

TL: India, Assam, Khasi Hills (presently, in Meghalaya).

TD: Lectotype ♀, NHMUK ( Kasy 1973).

Distribution: In India: Meghalaya (Meyrick 1913; Kasy 1973); Elsewhere: Taiwan ( Shen & Hsu 2023).

Illustrations: Wing venation ( Kasy 1973: abb. 39); male genitalia; female genitalia ( Kasy 1973: abb. 94, 95; Shen & Hsu 2023: fig. 1E–G); male habitus (dorsal and ventral); female habitus (dorsal and ventral); biology ( Shen & Hsu 2023: fig. 1A–D, fig. 2).

Host: Pyrrosia sheareri , P. lingua , P. porosa ( Polypodiaceae ) ( Shen & Hsu 2023).

Remarks: The species Agrioscelis tacita was synonymized as Stathmopoda tacita ( Kasy 1973) , but it has recently been resurrected by Shen et al. (2024).