Mesophleps macrosemus ( 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 : 53-54

Mesophleps macrosemus ( Lower, 1900) comb. nov.

( Figs 115, 147)

Ypsolophus macrosemus Lower, 1900 , Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 418. LECTOTYPE ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Broken Hill , 30.viii.1899 (Lower) (SAM, Adelaide), here designated [examined].

Xerometra macrosema (Lower) ; Meyrick 1925: 170; Edwards 1996: 108.

Genitalia ♂. Not examined. Genitalia ♀ ( Figs 115, 147). Papillae anales relatively narrow, distally rounded, less than one-half length of apophyses posteriores, sparsely setose. Apophyses posteriores almost twice length of apophyses anteriores. Segment VIII unremarkable, about one-half length of apophyses anteriores, ostium bursae near anterior margin, sclerotized antrum broadly triangular, ductus bursae narrow, straight, about length of apophyses anteriores; corpus bursae, about length of ductus bursae; ductus seminalis from cervix bursae.

Remarks. Y. macrosemus was described from ten specimens (both sexes), collected by Lower at Broken Hill, New South Wales, in October at light. The female labelled as ‘type’ in coll. Lower is here designated as the lectotype.

Biology. Host-plant unknown.

Distribution. Australia (New South Wales).

Material examined (4 ♀♀, including 2 ♀♀ genitalia preparations)

Australia: 1 ♀, lectotype (as above) ; 3 ♀♀, New South Wales, Broken Hill , 22.x.1898 (Lower) (paralectotypes) .