An annotated list of the Pterophorinae (Oidaematophorini and Pterophorini) of Iran (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

A checklist of the 29 species of Pterophorinae (tribus Oidaematophorini and Pterophorini) of Iran is presented. Calyciphora golestanica sp. n., and the hitherto unknown male of Merrifieldia farsi (Arenberger 1981) and the female of Tabulaephorus djebeli (Arenberger 1981) are described. Emmelina argoteles (Meyrick 1922) and Hellinsia pectodactylus (Staudinger 1859), are reported as new for Iran. The known distribution of each species is given

Plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Ethiopia. Part 3

The article gives a faunal overview on Pterophoridae of Ethiopian considering all the literature data and new findings. The plume moths fauna of Ethiopia currently includes 59 species, 6 of which are reported for the first time (marked with *). For the latter, data on collected specimens and photos of adults are used

To the Pterophoridae fauna (Lepidoptera) of Sumatra (Indonesia)

A species new to science, Xyroptilia sumatrana Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, is described from Sumatra. Two species, Platyptilia farfarella Zeller, 1867 and Stangeia siceliota (Zeller, 1847), are for the first time reported for the fauna of this island. The list of all the currently known plume moths species from Sumatra is provided

Новый вид рода Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae) из Закавказья

Scoparia sinevi Streltzov, sp. n. is described from the Republic of Southern Ossetia. The new species is very similar in its appearance to the Central Asian S. juldusella (Caradja, 1916) but distinctly differs from latter by the male genitalia with cornutus consisting of three large spines (cornutrus with one large spine in S. juldusella). The moths of the new species were collected from forb subalpine meadows in the Rachinsky Range

Autumn moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) new for the fauna of Kunashir Island

Three species, Epinotia autumnalis Oku, 2005 (Tortricidae), Deuterogonia kamonjii Fujisawa, 1991 (Oecophoridae) and Blenina senex (Butler, 1878) (Nolidae), are recorded from Russia for the first time. Thirty four moth and butterfly species are new for the fauna of Kunashir Island

To the plume moths fauna (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Kenya

The article describes two Pterophoridae species, new to science, from Kenya: Agdistis ivarssulcsi sp. nov. and Picardia andreikante sp. nov., and four species, Agdistis toliarensis Bigot, 1987, Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864), Exelastis crepuscularis (Meyrick, 1909), Cosmoclostis lanceata (Arenberger, 1985) are indicated for the first time as new to the fauna of Kenya

Two new species of plume moths of the genus Hellinsia Tutt, 1905 (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) from Paraguay

The plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) fauna of Paraguay is studied quite well, which is proved by a series of publications (Gielis, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2013; Ustjuzhanin et al., 2016). However, we have found two species of the genus Hellinsia, new to science, in the supplementary materials provided to us by Ulf Drechsel (Asunción)

Nuevas especies de Alucitidae de la República de Suráfrica (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae)

According to the materials examined in the collections of the Natural History Museum in Pretoria (Republic of South Africa) and collections of the authors, we describe two new species of Alucitidae from Republic of South Africa: Alucita hendriki Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp. n. and Alucita armstrongi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, sp.n. The data on their distribution and phenology are provided

New species of plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Argentina

The article describes four species of plume moths from Argentine, new to science: Lioptilodes lauri sp. nov., Hellinsia katja sp. nov, Emmelina inna sp. nov., Adaina nina sp. nov. Stenoptilia tenuis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) is given for Argentine for the first time

Два новых вида рода Hellinsia Tuff, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) из Южной Африки

Two new species, Hellinsia karinupponeni Kovtunovich, Ustjuzhanin et Pototski, sp. n. and Hellinsia ristoi Kovtunovich, Ustjuzhanin et Pototski, sp. n., are described from the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces of the Republic of South Africa, respectively. Holotypes of both species are deposited in the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu