Tinissa insularia
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Ordo: Lepidoptera
Familia: Tineidae
Genus: Tinissa
Name
Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Tinissa insularia Robinson, 1976: 285; Robinson, 1981: 371.
Material examined
CHINA, Yunnan Province: 1 ♂, Baka Village, Menglun Town (21°56'N, 101°15E), Mengla County, 620 m, 6.VIII.2010, leg. Yinghui Sun and Lixia Li, genitalia slide No. YLL11138.
Diagnosis
Adult (Fig. 8) with male wingspan 17.0 mm. Tinissa insularia is close to Tinissa spirella sp. n., but differs as noted in the description of the new species.
Distribution
China (Yunnan), Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Moluccas), Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Balabac, Tawi Tawi), New Guinea (Papua, Karkar I., New Britain), Solomon Is.
Notes
This species is recorded for the first time in China.
Taxon Treatment
- Yang, L; Li, H; 2012: Review of the genus Tinissa Walker, 1864 (Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Scardiinae) from China, with description of five new species ZooKeys, 228: 1-20. doi
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