Micromelalopha Nagano, 1916

Japaridze, Lasha-Giorgi & Seropian, Armen, 2025, Unwanted guests: The first records of two established non-native moth species in the Caucasus, with notes on non-native fauna of Georgia, Caucasiana 4, pp. 137-151 : 137-151

Genus Micromelalopha Nagano, 1916

Remarks.

The genus comprises about 25 species, most of which occur in East Asia. They are distributed in China, Japan, Korea, Russia ( Primorsky Krai), Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia ( Wu and Fang 2003). Until this study, no congeners have been recorded outside their native range. Several species of Micromelalopha e. g. M. sieversi (Staudinger, 1892) , are considered as pests of Populus species within their native range ( Dai et al. 2024).