Thubana Walker, 1864

Park, Kyu-Tek, Cho, Soowon & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2016, Review of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) in the Oceanian Region, with description of a new species and a checklist of the family, Zootaxa 4147 (2), pp. 143-161 : 146-147

Genus Thubana Walker, 1864

Thubana Walker, 1864 . List Lep. Het. Br. Mus. 29: 814.

= Titana Walker 1864 ; = Tiva Walker 1864; = Inapha Walker 1864 ; = Stelechoris Meyrick 1925.

The genus is restricted primarily to the Oriental Region, with more than 50 known species, except for the southern Palearctic Region which has five reported species. In the Australian and Oceanian regions, no species of the genus has been reported. The following new species of Thubana is reported for the first time from the regions, and it is the third species belonging to the subfamily Torodorinae known from the both regions.