Odites sungsookimi ( Sohn & Wu, 2023 ), 2025

Arashima, Hazumu, Oku, Johei, Sohn, Jae-Cheon, Tomura, Sadahisa Yagi Shunsuke, Oka, Taiyo & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2025, Two new species of the genus Odites Walsingham, 1891 (Lepidoptera: Peleopodidae) from Japan with taxonomy and larval biology of Odites sungsookimi (Sohn & Wu, 2023) comb. nov., Zootaxa 5716 (3), pp. 349-364 : 359-360

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:774FB5B0-3AB4-491A-9653-304EABC8BBAA
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/72528798-FFE8-7031-FF79-D0C30B33D2D0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Odites sungsookimi ( Sohn & Wu, 2023 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Odites sungsookimi ( Sohn & Wu, 2023) comb. nov.

(Japanese name: Tsumaki-shiro-habiro-kibaga [renamed]).

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Scythropiodes sungsookimi Sohn & Wu, 2023: 3 View Cited Treatment .

Scythropiodes sp. 3 : Miyano, 2022: 140.

Material examined

[ Non-dot type] JAPAN, Honshu : 1♂ 2♀, Ibaraki, Tsukuba-shi, Amakubo , 2.VI.2022 (larva), host: Quercus myrsinifolia (bark), 4–12.VII.2022 emerged, S. Tomura leg. ( NSMT) ; 1♂ 1♀, same data except gen. slide. no. HA24-1074, sample no. HA-PS512 ( ELKU) ; 1♂ 1♀, same data except 1.VI.2024 (larva), host: Quercus myrsinifolia (bark), 1,10. VII.2024 emerged, H. Arashima, K. Nishiya leg. 1♀, Tokyo, Hino-shi, Hodokubo , 14.VII.1991, U. Jinbo leg. ( FC) ; 1♂, Nagano, Iida-shi, Kawaji , 21. VII. 1990, K. Fujisawa leg. ( FC) ; 1♀, Nagano, Shimoina-gun, Anan-cho, Tomikusa , 20.VIII.1988, K. Fujisawa leg. ( FC) ; 1♂, Aichi, Okazaki-shi, Motojuku-cho , 19.VII.1991, N. Matsui leg. ( FC) ; 1♂, Mie, Inabe-shi, Fujiwara-cho, Kamiaiba , 20.VII.1987, T. Mano leg. ( MIE) ; 1♀, same data except ( OMNH) ; 1♀, Mie, Kuwana-shi, Tado-cho, Mizono , 1.VIII.1986, T. Mano leg. ( MIE) ; 1♀, Mie, Miegun, Komono-cho, Chikusa , 21.VII.1990, T. Mano leg. ( MIE) ; 1♀, Mie, Kameyama-shi, Seki-cho, Washiyama , 7.VIII.1991, T. Mano leg. ( MIE) ; 1♂, Mie, Matsusaka-shi, Iitaka-cho, Ooda , Ooda-gawa Riv. , 31.VII.2024, T. Mano leg. ( MIE) ; 1♂ 1♀, Mie, Iga-shi, Yabata , Oyako-no-taki, 22.VII.2021, H. Arashima leg., gen. slide. no. HA22- 1011 ( MIE) ; 2♂, Mie, Iga-shi, Tsuge-machi, Kitauchiyama , Okuyono , 23.VII.2021, H. Arashima leg., gen. slide. no. HA23-1030 ( MIE) ; 1♀, Mie, Iga-shi, Tsuge-machi, Kobayashi , 14.VII.2023, H. Arashima leg. ( MIE) ; 3♀, same data except 15.VII.2023 ; 1♂, same data except 15.VII.2023 gen. slide. no. HA24-1073, sample no. HA-PS512 ( ELKU) ; 2♀, same data except 17.VII.2023 ; 2♂ 3♀, Osaka, Toyono-cho, Hatutani , 4.VI.2001 (larva), host: Prunus donarium (bark), 6–8.VII.2001 emerged, T. Saito leg. ( OPU) ; 2♀, Osaka, Toyono-cho, Mt. Aokai-yama , 15.VII.1998, T. Saito leg., gen. slide. no. HA23-1507 ( OPU) ; 1♀, Osaka, Minoo-shi, Minoo-koen , 8.VI.1999 (larva), host: Prunus donarium (bark), 20.VI.1999 emerged, T. Saito leg. ( OPU) ; 1♀, same data except 21.VI.1999 (larva), 4.VII.1999 emerged ; 1♂, same data except 7.VI.2000 (larva), 28.VI.2000 emerged ; 1♂, same data except 28.V.2004 (larva), 23.VI.2004 emerged ; 3♂ 3♀, Osaka, Minoo , 6.VI.1978 (larva), host: Castanea crenata (bark), 6-11.VII.1978 emerged, T. Saito leg., gen. slide. no. HA23-1508 ( OPU) ; 1♀, same data except 13.VII.1978 1♀, same data except 16.VII.1978 ; 1♂ 3♀, same data except 18.V.1979 (larva), host: Castanea crenata (bark), 13-30.VII.1979 emerged, gen. slide. no. HA23-1517, HA24-1521 ; 1♂, same data except 12.VII.1980 ; 1♀, same data except 23.VII.1980 ; 1♀, same data except 4.VIII.1980 ; 1♂, Hyogo, Mikata-gun, Kami-cho, Muraoka-ku , 27.VII.2019, J. Oku leg. ( ELKU) ; 1♂ 1♀, Hyogo, Takarazuka-shi, Sakaino, Yanagidani , 28.VII.2019, J. Oku leg. ( ELKU) .

Shikoku: 1♂, Tokushima, Tokushima-shi, Hachiman-cho , 12.VII.2019, H. Higuchi leg. ( TKPM) ; 1♀, same data except 24.VII.2019 .

Kyushu: 1♀, Fukuoka, Tagawa-gun, Soeda-machi, Mt. Hiko-san , 23.VII.2022, S. Yagi leg., gen. slide. no. HA23-1031 ( ELKU) .

[ black dot type] JAPAN, Tsushima Is.: 1♂ 1♀, Nagasaki, Tsushima-shi, Kamiagata-machi, Sago , 25- 28.VII.2024, Y. Matsui, T. Oka, J.H. Park leg., gen. slide. no. HA24-1067, HA24-1069, sample no. HA-PS521, HA-PS522 ( ELKU) .

Korea: 1♀ ( Paratype), Chungnam, Dangjin-si, Myeoncheon-myeon, Amisan , 4.VIII.2022, J.C. Sohn leg., gen. slide. no. SJC-1417, sample no. JCS-D-485 ( GJUE) ; 1♂, Gyeongnam, Namhae-gun, Idong-myeon, Sinjeon-ri , Geumsan , 13.VII.2021, J.C. Sohn leg., sample no. JCS-D-516 ( GJUE) .

Diagnosis

O. sungsookimi has both unicolorous “non-dot type ” and spotted “dot-type”. The non-dot type is similar to Scythropiodes venusta (Moriuti, 1977) but it can be distinguished from the latter by the following forewing characteristics: the color of the basal 1/4 of the costa is cream white, same as ground color (in S. venusta that is brown). This species is of black dot type, which is similar to that of O. ussuriella (Caradja, 1920) by sharing the condition and the location of the black dots on the forewing. However, this species can be distinguished from O. ussuriella by its forewing color: it is cream white with only an apical pale yellow area (in O. ussuriella it is entirely cream yellow).

The male and female genitalia of this species are easily distinguished from those of other species by their unique features: a costal process arising from near the base of the valva, which is strongly curved and subtriangularly expanded in the terminal 2/ 3 in male genitalia, and two longitudinally elliptical signa in the female genitalia.