Sarotorna mesoleuca ( Lower, 1900 ) Li & Sattler, 2012

Li, Houhun & Sattler, Klaus, 2012, A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 3373, Zootaxa 3373, pp. 1-82 : 58-59

Sarotorna mesoleuca ( Lower, 1900) comb. nov. ( Pexicopiinae )

( Figs 88, 118, 150)

Gelechia (?) mesoleuca Lower, 1900 , Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 48. Holotype ♀, AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Gisborne , iv. (Lyell)

[not traced]. Nothris dentata Lower, 1897 , Victorian Nat. 14: 79. [Unavailable, nomen nudum.] Nothris dentata Meyrick, 1904 , Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29: 421 [key], 427. Syntypes 16 ♂♂, ♀♀, AUSTRALIA: New South

Wales, Victoria, iii. (Meyrick) (BMNH) [examined]. [Synonymized by Edwards 1996: 112]. Comb. nov. Xerometra dentata (Meyrick) ; Meyrick 1925: 171. Athrips mesoleuca (Lower) ; Edwards 1996: 112.

Genitalia ♂ ( Fig 88). Uncus constricted at base, widening towards distal third, then broadly tapered towards blunt apex; basal two-thirds laterally set densely with long setae; gnathos hook long, thin; tegumen narrow, evenly tapered to base of uncus, anterior margin with small round emargination; valva broad at base, distally downturned, pointed, at distal third with strongly recurved, sharply pointed branch; saccus short, blunt; phallus straight, base with long spoon-shaped caecum.

Genitalia ♀ ( Figs 118, 150). Papillae anales unremarkable, apophyses posteriores about twice length of apophyses anteriores. Ostium bursae broad, antrum large, ventral edge distinctly sclerotized, medially membranous; corpus bursae without signum.

Remarks. N. dentata was described from 16 specimens, both sexes, from four localities in New South Wales: Sydney, Blackheath, 3500 ft, Mittagong, Bathurst and one in Victoria: Melbourne; all specimens were collected in March. Nine of the syntypes are in BMNH. The genus Sarotorna Meyrick, 1904 , which in the Australian checklist is placed in Gelechiinae ( Edwards 1996: 112) is here transferred to Pexicopiinae .

Biology. Host-plant unknown.

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales, Victoria).

Material examined (8 ♂♂, 1 ♀, including 1 ♂, 1 ♀ genitalia preparations)

Australia: 7 ♂♂, New South Wales, Sydney , 22, 23.iii.1878, 24.iii.1879 (Meyrick) , 1 ♂, Bathurst , 1.iii.1885 (Meyrick) , 1 ♀, Blackheath , 17.iii.1878 (Meyrick) (all syntypes of N. dentata ) .