Leptoteleia striola Talamas & Buffington name n.

Leptoteleia japonica Yamagishi, 1993: 812 (original description); Kononova and Kozlov 2008: 302 (description).

Comments.

The transfer of Triteleia japonica to Leptoteleia renders, L. japonica Yamagishi as a junior objective homonym. We hereby provide a replacement name in the interest of nomenclatural clarity.

Etymology.

The Latin adjectival epithet “striola,” meaning “furrow” or “line”, refers to the longitudinal costae mentioned by Yamagishi (1993) as a character useful for the diagnosis for this species.