Description of the female of Smerkata zolotuhini (Lepidoptera: Endromidae)
Saldaitis, A.; Volynkin, A.V.
Zootaxa 4429(3): 581-584
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 1175-5326 PMID: 30313260 Document Number: 697097
Smerkata Zolotuhin, 2007 has been described as a subgenus of Mustilia Walker, 1865 (Zolotuhin 2007), and recently upgraded to the genus level by Wang et al. (2015). Smerkata zolotuhini (Saldaitis Ivinskis, 2015) was recently described from western part of Sichuan province of China based on male specimens, as females were unknown at the time (Saldaitis et al. 2015). Recent collecting has provided additional specimens, including females described below.