Agonopterix multiplicella (Erschoff, 1877)

Agonopterix multiplicella (Erschoff, 1877) View in CoL

( Figs 7, 8, 15)

Depressaria sutschanella Caradja, 1926a: 43 , syn. nov. Lectotype. Male ( Fig. 7), Russia, “Sutschan, Ussuri” [now Partizansk, Primorskiy Terr.]; the specimen also has two identification label handwritten by Caradja “ D. sutschanella ” and “ Depressaria sutschanella Typen Car.[adja]”, handwritten identification label with the note “ Depressaria propinquella ”, a red label with the note “ Lectotypus nr.”, Hannemann’s genitalia label “teste 2064, Hannemann 10.1957”, and the assignment label by Popescu-Gorj ( Fig. 8).

Paralectotypes. 5 females, same collecting data.

Distribution. Eastern Europe, Russia (Southern Siberia and Far East), Korea, China, Japan.

Remarks. In his extremely brief original description, Caradja primarily focused on the external differences between his specimens and Agonopterix propinquella (Treitschke, 1835) that could explain the presence of the handwritten identification label, indicating mentioned species name. At the end of his description, Caradja stated that A. multiplicella (Erschoff, 1877) is another similar species, different from the one he described. Indeed, the most closely related species to A. sutschanella is A. multiplicella , from which it differs only by the lighter ground colour of its forewings, and this is not enough to reject the conspecificity of these taxa. Although Hannemann examined the lectotype and its genital structures ( Fig. 15), he did mention nothing about its synonymy ( Hannemann, 1958). The examination of genital structures of one paralectotype (female) showed that it belongs to Agonopterix anticella (Erschoff, 1877) , a senior synonym of A. abjectella (Christoph, 1882) .