Published April 11, 2025 | Version v1
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Sophronia chilonella

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Museum of the Czech Republic, Natural History Museum, Department of Entomology, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 – Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; jansumpich @ seznam. cz

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Šumpich, Jan, 2025, The genus Sophronia in the Altai Mountains (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae), pp. 137-144 in Nota Lepidopterologica 48 on pages 137-144, DOI: 10.3897/nl.48.147394

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMPC
Event date
2019-07-04
Verbatim event date
2019-07-04/05
Scientific name authorship
Treitschke
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Gelechiidae
Genus
Sophronia
Species
chilonella
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sophronia chilonella (Treitschke, 1833) sec. Šumpich, 2025

References

  • Elsner G, Huemer P, Tokár Z (1999) Die Palpenmotten (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) Mitteleuropas. Bestimmung – Verbreitung – Flugstandort – Lebensweise der Raupen. František Slamka, Bratislava, 208 pp.
  • Ponomarenko MG (2019) Gelechiidae, 91–112. In: Sinev SYu (Ed.) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia. Edition 2. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, 448 pp. [in Russian, English abstract]