[Entomology • 2025] The Genus Sophronia (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the Altai Mountains

1–3. Sophronia huiagaai sp. nov. Šumpich, 2025
 4–6. S. consanguinella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
 7–9. S. chilonella (Treitschke, 1833)  

in Šumpich, 2025. 

 DOI: doi.org/10.3897/nl.48.147394 

 

Abstract 

This work summarizes current knowledge about the occurrence of Sophronia Hübner, [1825] species in the Altai Mountains. Previously, two species of the genus have been recorded, both two from the Russian Altai. Sophronia huiagaai sp. nov. is described from the southern Altai Mts in Mongolia. No Sophronia species is known from the Chinese and Kazakh parts of the mountains. Photographs of moths and genitalia of both sexes are provided for S. huiagaai sp. nov. S. chilonella (Treitschke, 1833) is recorded from the Altai Mts for the first time.

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.

 

Jan Šumpich. 2025. The Genus Sophronia in the Altai Mountains (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Nota Lepidopterologica. 48: 137-144. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/nl.48.147394