Thymioptila oedalea ( Meyrick, 1909 )

Muadsub, Sopita & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2023, The first checklist of the tribe Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) of Thailand, Zootaxa 5349 (1), pp. 1-65 : 59-60

166. Thymioptila oedalea ( Meyrick, 1909)

Argyroploce oedalea Meyrick, 1909 , J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 593. Type locality: Sri Lanka, “Ceylon [ Sri Lanka] ( Kandy )”. Lectotype (♂): BMNH.

Argyroploce neolopha Meyrick, 1931 , Exotic Microlepid. 4: 131. Type locality: Bismark Archipelago. Bismarck Islands (New Hanover) [ Papua New Guinea]. Holotype (♀): BMNH.

Olethreutes oedalea ( Meyrick, 1909) : Clarke, 1958, British Museum (Natural History) 3: 531, pl. 364, Figs. 4–4a (wing, ♂ genitalia).

Thymioptila oedalea ( Meyrick, 1909) : Diakonoff, 1971: Veroff. Zool. Staatssamml. Munchen. 15: 188, Fig. 3, 4, 8 (head, wing, ♂, ♀ genitalia).

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka ( Meyrick 1909), New Guinea ( Meyrick 1931), China (Hainan), Brunei and Indonesia ( Robinson et al. 1994), and Laos ( Pinkaew 2022).

Distribution in Thailand: C–– Nakhon Nayok Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), E–– Chanthaburi Prov. (Khao Kluea) and Prachinburi Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), NE–– Nakhon Ratchasima Prov. (Sakaerat Environmental R.St.), and Sa Kaeo Prov. (Pang Sida N.P.), and S–– Krabi Prov. and Nakhon Si Thammarat Prov. (Khao Nan N.P.) ( Diakonoff 1971; Pinkaew 2022; KKIC).

Host plants: Unknown.

Remarks: Specimens from Thailand were collected in moist evergreen forest, mixed deciduous forest, and dry evergreen forest at 123– 702 m. Diakonoff (1971) did not mention about forest type and elevation.