Two new species of plume moths from Atacama Desert, Chile, are described: Lioptilodes karinupponeni Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Pototski sp. nov. and Hellinsia haverineni Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Pototski sp. nov.
Scythris innae K. Nupponen & Haverinen, sp. n. is described from SE Kazakhstan. The genitalia of previously unknown females of Falkovitshella hindukushi Passerin d’Entrèves & Roggero, 2013, F. hypolepta (Falkovitsh, 1972) and S. niemineni Nupponen, 2014 are described. Records of 26 species embracing 304 specimens of the family Scythrididae from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are presented. The material was collected during 2013–2014 in the course of four Finnish–Russian and Finnish–Estonian expeditions. Four species are reported as new to Kazakhstan and eight species as new to Tajikistan. The known distribution range of each species is given, and the taxonomy of some species is briefly discussed.
Two new Phronia Winnertz, 1864 species—P. hannarostiaesp. nov. and P. ristoisp. nov.—are described from Taita Hills in Kenya, representing the first named species of this genus in the African continent. The new species are morphologically similar to each other as well as to P. flobertae Matile – a species described from the Comoro Islands. These three species can be distinguished by details of the male terminalia, in particular by comparing the structures of the gonostyli. The new species are photographed and hand-drawn figures provided, and their taxonomy is discussed.
The article describes four species of plume moths from Argentine, new to science: Lioptilodes lauri sp. nov., Hellinsia katja sp. nov, Emmelina inna sp. nov., Adaina nina sp. nov. Stenoptilia tenuis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) is given for Argentine for the first time.
A new geometrid species, Archedontia agnesae sp. n. is described from Tadjikistan. The new genus Archedontia gen. n. is assigned to the sterrhine tribe Rhodometrini, aside genus Ochodontia Lederer. Adult moth, male and female genitalia are figured and described, and COI barcode data analysed.
The article describes two Pterophoridae species, new to science, from Kenya: Agdistis ivarssulcsi sp. nov. and Picardia andreikante sp. nov., and four species, Agdistis toliarensis Bigot, 1987, Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864), Exelastis crepuscularis (Meyrick, 1909), Cosmoclostis lanceata (Arenberger, 1985) are indicated for the first time as new to the fauna of Kenya.
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