Sorolopha phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905 )

130. Sorolopha phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905) View in CoL *

Platypeplus phyllochlora Meyrick, 1905 , J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 16: 585. Type locality: Sri Lanka, “ Ceylon [Sri Lanka] ( Haragam )”. Lectotype ( ♂): NHM.

Argyroploce phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905) View in CoL : Meyrick, 1909, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 592.

Argyroploce ptilosema Meyrick, 1916 View in CoL , Exotic Microlepid. 1: 563. Type locality: India, “ South India ( Shevaroys)”. Holotype (♂): NHM.

Olethreutes phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905) : Clarke, 1958, British Museum ( Natural History) 3: 535, pl. 266, Figs. 2–2b (wing, ♂ genitalia, abdomen).

Olethreutes ptilosema (Meyrick, 1916) : Clarke, 1958, British Museum ( Natural History) 3: 535, pl. 266, Figs. 3–3a (wing, ♂ genitalia).

Euedmis phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905) : Diakonoff, 1968, Bull. U.S. Natn. Mus. 257(1967): 52.

Sorolopha phyllochlora ( Meyrick, 1905) View in CoL : Diakonoff, 1973, Zool. Monogr. Rijksmus. Nat. Hist. 1: 68, Fig. 111 ( ♀ genitalia).

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka ( Meyrick 1905), India ( Meyrick 1916a; Pathania et al. 2020), and China ( Yu & Li 2009).

Distribution in Thailand: C–– Nakhon Nayok Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), E–– Chanthaburi Prov. (Ang-et Community Forest and Khao Kluea), Prachinburi Prov. (Khao Yai N.P.), Sa Kaeo Prov. (Pang Sida N.P.), and Trat Prov. ( Trat Agroforestry R.St.), S–– Nakhon Si Thammarat Prov. (Khao Nan N.P.), and W–– Kanchanaburi Prov. (Thong Pha Phum N.P.) (KKIC).

Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars feed on Lauraceae : Cinnamomum camphora and Persea americana ( Robinson et al. 2023) .

Remarks: This species is reported from Thailand for the first time. Specimens from Thailand were collected in agroforestry area, recovered forest of old para-rubber plantation, moist evergreen forest, dry evergreen forest, and hill evergreen forest at 30– 1,140 m