Hedya iophaea (Meyrick, 1912)

Muadsub, Sopita & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2023, The first checklist of the tribe Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) of Thailand, Zootaxa 5349 (1), pp. 1-65 : 22

45. Hedya iophaea (Meyrick, 1912)

Argyroploce iophaea Meyrick, 1912 , J. Bombay Nat . Hist. Soc. 21: 873. Type locality: Sri Lanka, “Ceylon [ Sri Lanka] ( Maskeliya )”. Lectotype (♁): NHM.

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka ( Meyrick 1912a), Indonesia and Borneo ( Diakonoff 1973), China ( Kawabe et al. 1992), Japan ( Nasu & Komai 2013), Vietnam ( Nedoshivina 2013), Korea ( Sohn et al. 2015), and Laos ( Pinkaew & Phewphanh 2017). Distribution in Thailand: C–– Nakhon Nayok Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), E–– Chanthaburi Prov. (Khao Soi Dao W.S.), and N–– Chiang Mai Prov. (Doi Inthanon N.P. and Doi Pakia) ( Kawabe 1989). Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars feed on Theaceae : Eurya japonica ( Kawabe 1982) . Remarks: Specimens from Thailand were collected in moist evergreen forest, dry evergreen forest and hill evergreen forest at 400– 1,500 m.