Tinissa indica Robinson, 1976

Yang, Linlin & Li, Houhun, 2012, Review of the genus Tinissa Walker, 1864 (Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Scardiinae) from China, with description of five new species, ZooKeys 228, pp. 1-20 : 8

Tinissa indica Robinson, 1976 Figs 1−7, 19

Tinissa indica Robinson, 1976: 282.

Material examined.

CHINA, Hainan Province: 1 ♀, Mt. Diaoluo (18°28'N, 109°31'E), 940 m, 31.v.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li, genitalia slide No. ZL09028; 1 ♂, Mt. Yingge (19°01'N, 109°33'E), 30.ix.2011, leg. Bingbing Hu, genitalia slide No. YLL11135m, YLL11135w; 1 ♂, Nancha River, Mt. Bawang (19°04'N, 109°02'E), 600 m, 9.vi.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li; 2 ♂♂, East first Protection Station, Mt. Bawang, 650 m, 7.iv.2008, leg. Bingbing Hu and Haiyan Bai, genitalia slide No. NKYLL012; 1 ♂, East Administration, Mt. Bawang, 8.v.2011, leg. Dandan Zhang and Lifeng Yang; 1 ♂, Mt. Wuzhi (18°46'N, 109°30'E), 650 m, 15.v.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li; 2 ♂♂, Mt. Limu (19°09'N, 109°28'E), 5.v.2011, leg. Dandan Zhang and Lijun Yang. Yunnan Province: 1 ♂, Bubang (21°36'N, 101°35'E), Mengla, 650 m, 25.vii.2008, leg. Yingdang Ren, genitalia slide No. XYL05049.

Diagnosis.

Adult (Figs 2−5) with wingspan 24.0−28.0 mm in male, 30.0 mm in female. Tinissa indica can be easily recognized from its congeners by the male genitalia having a pair of crescent-shaped uncus lobes, the triangular subscaphium with wide, fingerlike process posterolaterally, and the fist-shaped juxta (Figs 6−7), and by the female genitalia having the eighth sternite ventrally protuberant and the hemispherical antrum (Fig. 19).

Distribution.

China (Hainan, Yunnan, Taiwan), India, Sikkim, Bhutan.