Fabricius, 1775 : 667
Tinea
Staudinger, 1892 : 392
Descriptions of three new species of Ypsolopha Latreille (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from East Asia, redescription of Y. contractella (Caradja) and a checklist of East Asian Ypsolopha
Sohn, Jae-Cheon
Ponomarenko, Margarita G.
Wu, Chun-Sheng
Han, Hui-Lin
Wang, Xin-Li
Zootaxa
2010
2511
22
38
Fabricius, 1775
Fabricius
1775
[151,598,1506,1532]
Insecta
Ypsolophidae
Ypsolopha
GBIF
Animalia
Lepidoptera
9
31
Arthropoda
species
dentella
Phalaena( Tinea) dentella Fabricius, 1775: 667[ typelocality: Sweden]. = harpella[ Denis and Schiffermüller, 1776]: 136 ( Tinea). = affinitella Staudinger, 1892: 392( Cerostoma). n. syn. New records: CHINA–[Jilin] 43, 4Ƥ, Mt. Changbaishan, 13 –19 VII 1974; 2Ƥ, 26 –28 VII 1974; 2Ƥ, ditto, 4 –9 VIII 1974, IZCAS. [Heilongjiang] 13, Yichun, 9 VII 1963; 83, 7Ƥ, Wuying, 23 –30 VI 1981, [GSN: IOZ-09005 (3), 0 9006 (Ƥ)], IZCAS.
Distribution: China(new record: Northeast), Russia( Zinchenko and Ponomarenko 2008), Mideast Asia, Europe and North America.
Remark: Staudinger (1892)described Ypsolopha affinitella, based on a male specimen from Kentei Gebirge (now, Malkhanskiy Region), Russia, as a separate species from the European Y. dentellaon account of differences in the background color and the oblique streak on the dorsal patch in the forewing. However, these pattern differences actually overlap with variation observed in Y. dentella. To assess the identity of Y. affinitella, we examined a photo of its holotypeprovided by Dr. Wolfram Mey in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany( Fig. 5). In addition, the first author (JCS) examined one specimen in the Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, which was identified by Staudinger as Y. affinitella. These affinitellaspecimens are indistinguishable from Y. dentellaand thus, we propose that they are synonyms.