Scythris hamatella, NUPPONEN et NUPPONEN, 2001

D’Entrèves, P. & Roggero, A., 2006, New And Little-Known Species Of Scythridid Moths Collected By Z. Kaszab In Mongolia (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea, Scythrididae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (1), pp. 49-75 : 65

S. hamatella NUPPONEN et NUPPONEN, 2001

Scythris hamatella NUPPONEN et NUPPONEN, Entomol. Fenn. 12: 85.

Material. 1 f (Genital slide no. 4093 Passerin d’Entrèves), MONGOLIA: Gobi Altay aimag, Chasat chajrchan Uul Range, about 20 km S of somon Zargalan, 2400 m, 1966 Kaszab Expedition, 15.VII.1966 .

Distribution. The species is known from Altay, Russia, and from Gobi Altay, western Mongolia.

Remarks. In Altay, the species was collected in June and early July in a dry Artemisia -steppe ( NUPPONEN & NUPPONEN 2001); in Mongolia it was collected in mid-July in a mountain steppe meadow near a coniferous wood.