Kessleria Nowicki, 1864

Tarasova, Anastasiia A. & Ponomarenko, Margarita G., 2025, New data on Microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae, Adelidae, Glyphipterigidae, and Yponomeutidae) from the Far East of Russia, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 456-475 : 459

Genus Kessleria Nowicki

Type species. Kessleria zimmermannii Nowicki, 1864 , by monotypy.

Distribution. Palaearctic region: Europe; Russia (European part, North Caucasus, south of West Siberia, Irkutskaya Oblast’, Zabaikalskii Krai [Transbaikalia], Primorskii Krai, first record); Japan (Honshu, Kyushu); Oriental region: China ( Hunan, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Taiwan); Japan (Ryukyu); India ( Assam, Mumbai, Punjab); Nearctic region: Canada; USA; Australasian region: New Guinea; New Zealand ( Friese 1960; Moriuti 1977, 1981; Huemer & Tarmann 1991, 1993; Lewis & Sohn 2015; Huemer & Mutanen 2015; Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024b).

Remarks. The genus Kessleria Nowicki includes 35 species ( Huemer & Mutanen 2015; Lewis & Sohn 2015), most of which are Palaearctic: more than 2/3 species are distributed in Europe, and two species are known from Japan. Six species have been recorded in the Oriental region and two more from the Australasian region. In Russia, only five species have been indicated, all of which have fragmented or narrow local ranges ( Ponomarenko & Sinev 2024b). In Russia the easternmost locality where Kessleria spp. are known is the Zabaikalskii Krai [Transbaikalia]. Before this study, this genus was not recorded in the fauna of the Russian Far East.