Agonopterix liturosa rimulella ( Caradja, 1920 ), 2019

Agonopterix liturosa rimulella ( Caradja, 1920) View in CoL , comb. nov., stat. demotus

( Figs 5, 6, 14)

Depressaria rimulella Caradja, 1920: 128–129 .

Lectotype. Male ( Fig. 5), Russia, “Kasakewitsch”

[= Kazakevichevo, Khabarovsk Terr.]; the specimen also has a label proving the provenance from Walsingham’s collection “5425, Wlsm., 1908”, an identification label handwritten by Caradja “ D. rimulella ”, a red label with the mention “ Lectotypus nr.”, Hannemann’s genitalia label “teste 2062, Hannemann 10.1957”, and the assignment label by Popescu-Gorj ( Fig. 6) .

Paralectotypes. 26 males and 1 female, same collecting data.

Distribution. Russian Far East (the south of Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Region, Primorskiy Territory, Kunashir Island), North-East China.

Remarks. Describing new species, Caradja compared it with Agonopterix liturella (Hübner, 1796) and A. rutana (Fabricius, 1794) , of them the first one is synonymous with A. liturosa (Haworth, 1811) . Hence, Caradja seems to have had a correct perception on the true identity of his specimens, even though he mistakenly overrated the differences between these two species in their external appearance. A. liturosa rimulella is very similar in external appearance with the nominative subspecies, from which it differs only through its dark brown head and thorax and the absence of short black stroke in the middle of the cell. The specimens from nominative subspecies have usually light head and thorax and the short black stroke in the middle of the cell. The genitalia structures are identical ( Fig. 14), as well as the food plants of larvae ( Hypericum L.). The nominative subspecies is distributed in Europe, North Africa, Central Asia; the ssp. A. l. rimulella in Russian Far East and North East China ( Jilin Province).