Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976

Yang, Linlin & Li, Houhun, 2012, Review of the genus Tinissa Walker, 1864 (Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Scardiinae) from China, with description of five new species, ZooKeys 228, pp. 1-20 : 8

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.228.3645
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scientific name	Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976
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Treatment

Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976 Figs 1, 8, 14

Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976: 285; Robinson, 1981: 371.

Material examined.

CHINA, Yunnan Province: 1 ♂, Baka Village, Menglun Town (21°56'N, 101°15E), Mengla County, 620 m, 6.VIII.2010, leg. Yinghui Sun and Lixia Li, genitalia slide No. YLL11138.

Diagnosis.

Adult (Fig. 8) with male wingspan 17.0 mm. Tinissa insularia is close to Tinissa spirella sp. n., but differs as noted in the description of the new species.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan), Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Moluccas), Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Balabac, Tawi Tawi), New Guinea (Papua, Karkar I., New Britain), Solomon Is.

Notes.

This species is recorded for the first time in China.