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.