Proutia niphonica (Hori, 1926), comb. nov.

Lee, Dong-June, Lee, Jae-Seok, Kim, Jongwon, Lee, Hyeon, Byun, Bong-Kyu & Roh, Seung Jin, 2023, A new species of the genus Proutia Tutt (Lepidoptera, Psychidae) from Korea, based on morphology and DNA barcodes, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 110313-110313 : 110313

Proutia niphonica (Hori, 1926), comb. nov.

Eumea niphonica Hori, 1926: 28 ( Eumea is misspelling of Fumea ). Type locality: Japan.

Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767): Sauter and Hättenschwiler (1991): 79; Leraut (1997): 87; Sobczyk (2011): 257.

Bruandia niphonica (Hori, 1926): Sugimoto (2009a): 12; Saigusa and Sugimoto (2013): 145.

Bruandella niphonica (Hori, 1926): Saigusa and Sugimoto (2014): 143; Roh and Byun (2017): 224; Saigusa and Sugimoto (2022): 147.

Notes

The placement of Psyche niphonica Hori, 1926 has been a debatable issue. The species was described by Hori, based on specimens collected from Honshu and Kiyshu in Japan and assigned to Eumea , an incorrect subsequent spelling of Fumea Haworth, 1812. Sauter and Hättenschwiler (1991) treated it as a junior subjective synonym of Psyche casta (Pallas, 1767) and this treatment has been subsequently followed by Leraut (1997), Sobczyk (2011) and Arnscheid and Weidlich (2017). However, Sugimoto (2009a) treated it as valid species in Bruandia Tutt, 1900 and this was followed by Saigusa and Sugimoto (2013). Bruandia Tutt is a homonym of Bruandia Desmarest, 1857. Sauter and Hättenschwiler (1999) proposed Anaproutia Lewin, 1949 as a replacement name of Bruandia Tutt and then Anaproutia was treated as a synonym of Proutia by Bengtsson and Palmqvist (2008). Saigusa and Sugimoto (2014) erected Bruandella as a replacement name of Bruandia Tutt and then Roh and Byun (2017) assigned Bruandella niphonica in Bruandella . Saigusa and Sugimoto (2013) discussed differences between Psyche niphonica Hori collected from the type locality and Psyche casta (Pallas) in detail, pointing out that the intercalary cell in the male forewing is present in Psyche niphonica Hori, whereas absent in Psyche casta (Pallas). Recently, Saigusa and Sugimoto (2022) desginated the lectotype specimen ( Fumea niphonica Hori, 1926) and concluded that it was reasonable for this species to be a new combination into the genus Bruandella . Therefore, Psyche niphonica Hori is a valid species. We accepted this point of view. Furthermore, the molecular analyses (Table 2, Figs. 2 and 3) supported specimens from Korea and Japan representing a valid species in Proutia , treated as Proutia niphonica (Hori, 1926), comb. nov.