Sophronia chilonella (Treitschke, 1833)

Šumpich, Jan, 2025, The genus Sophronia in the Altai Mountains (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae), Nota Lepidopterologica 48, pp. 137-144 : 137-144

Sophronia chilonella (Treitschke, 1833)

Figs 7–9

Material examined.

Russia, Altai Republic, Ulagan vill., Chulyshman valley , 51°01'03"N, 88°00'39"E, grassy steppe, rocks, 600 m, 4.–5.vii.2019, 1 ♂, (gen. prep. JŠ 24054), J. Šumpich leg. ( NMPC) .

Molecular data.

BIN: BOLD: AAJ 3742. The intraspecific average distance of the barcode region is 0.48 % (p-dist) (n = 7). The minimum distance to the nearest neighbor, an unidentified Sophronia species collected in Bulgaria ( BOLD: ADF 5021), is 6.42 % (p-dist).

Distribution.

Palearctic region (from Spain to the Far East) ( Elsner et al. 1999). This species has been recorded in most of the European regions of Russia; records from Russia’s Asian regions are restricted to the Altai Mts (this paper), Krasnoyarsk, Chabarovsky kray and Primorsky kray ( Ponomarenko 2019).

Remark.

The wingspan of typical European specimens of S. chilonella is around 12 mm, while the Altai specimen is significantly larger ( 15 mm). However, its genitalia fully correspond to those of European specimens.

Figures

Figures 1–9. 1–3. Sophronia huiagaai sp. nov., Mongolia; 1. Holotype, male; 2. Paratype, female; 3. Head, paratype, male; 4–6. S. consanguinella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855). 4. Male, Russia, Southern Ural; 5. Female, Czechia; 6. Head, Czechia, male; 7–9. S. chilonella (Treitschke, 1833); 7. Male, Russia, Altai Mts; 8. Female, Czechia; 9. Head, Czechia, male.