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Additions and corrections to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera

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Additions and corrections to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera (Aarvik et al. 2017) are presented. 44 species new to the Nordic-Baltic area as well as numerous new country records are added. Two misspellings and 14 other mistakes of various types are corrected. The genus name Tuta Kieffer & Jørgensen, 1910 is recombined with the species name absoluta Meyrick, 1917 as Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) comb. rev.
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Additions and corrections to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of
Lepidoptera
LEIF AARVIK, BENGT ÅKE BENGTSSON, HALLVARD ELVEN, POVILAS IVINSKIS, URMAS
JÜRIVETE, OLE KARSHOLT, MARKO MUTANEN & NIKOLAY SAVENKOV
Aarvik, L., Bengtsson, B.Å., Elven, H., Ivinskis, P., Jürivete, U., Karsholt, O., Mutanen, M. &
Savenkov, N. 2021. Additions and corrections to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera.
Norwegian Journal of Entomology 68, 1–14.
Additions and corrections to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of Lepidoptera (Aarvik et al. 2017) are
presented. 44 species new to the Nordic-Baltic area as well as numerous new country records are
added. Two misspellings and 14 other mistakes of various types are corrected. The genus name Tuta
Kieer & Jørgensen, 1910 is recombined with the species name absoluta Meyrick, 1917 as Tuta
absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) comb. rev.
Key words: Lepidoptera, checklist, Nordic-Baltic, additions, corrections.
Leif Aarvik, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo,
Norway. E-mail: leif.aarvik@nhm.uio.no
Bengt Å. Bengtsson, Lokegatan 3, S-386 93 Färjestaden, Sweden.
E-mail: bengt.a.bengtsson@gmail.com
Hallvard Elven, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318
Oslo, Norway. E-mail: hallvard.elven@nhm.uio.no
Povilas Ivinskis, St. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, LT-08412 Vilnius-21, Lithuania.
E-mail: entlab@gmail.com
Urmas Jürivete, Estonian Lepidopterologists’ Society, Moora umb. 8, EE-11625 Tallinn, Estonia.
E-mail: urmas@kolmabi.ee
Ole Karsholt, Zoologisk Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen,
Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. E-mail: okarsholt@snm.ku.dk
Marko Mutanen, Department of Genetics and Physiology, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 University of
Oulu, Finland. E-mail: marko.mutanen@oulu.
Nikolay Savenkov, Latvian Museum of Natural History, K. Barona st. 4, LV-1050 Riga, Latvia.
E-mail: nikolajs@ldm.gov.lv
© Norwegian Journal of Entomology. 18 June 2021
Introduction
The authors present faunistic and taxonomic
updates to the Nordic-Baltic Checklist of
Lepidoptera (Aarvik et al. 2017). In the past three
years, numerous publications on Lepidoptera have
appeared which have added to the knowledge
of the fauna present in the area. The studies on
phylogeny using molecular methods are continuing
and recently this has aected particularly the
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classication of Gelechioidea (Wang & Li
2020) and Geometridae (Murillo-Ramos et al.
2019, Müller et al. 2019, Sihvonen et al. 2020).
New monographs covering Europe or the whole
Palaearctic region give an extended perspective at
the genus level and inevitably lead to changes. An
example is the monograph on the noctuid genus
Agrochola Hübner, 1821 and allies (Ronkay et
al. 2017). At the national level numerous new
records have been made. This reects the interest
in Lepidoptera in each of the countries, but also to
some extent a warmer climate.
It has recently been suggested (Wiemers
et al. 2018) that Linnaeus’ Fauna Svecica was
published in 1760, not 1761. However, it seems
that Linnaeus in 1760 was only circulating a proof
version of Linnaeus (1761) and not a publication.
The suggested change would aect the year of
description for a number of species. Until more
evidence eventually appears, we consider the year
of publication to be 1761.
Material and methods
New country records are based on publications
referred to in each case. In cases where there is
no reference to a publication, the information
was gathered by the authors from the dierent
countries. A new version of the checklist in the
form of an excel sheet is available on the website
of the Norwegian Entomological Society: http://
www.entomologi.no/index.htm
The new country records are the responsibility
of the authors representing their own country.
New species for the list is the responsibility of the
contributor from the country where the species
was discovered, but has also been accepted
by the rest of the authors. Some of the records
have been published in entomological journals,
some have been presented on the internet and
others are presented for the rst time here. In
case of unpublished records, they are given
with the permission of the discoverer/collector.
New species for Finland are recorded on the
website «Laji» which is provided by The Finnish
Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF):
https://laji./en. The word ‘omitted’ is used in
cases when a record was omitted by mistake in
the checklist (Aarvik et al. 2017). The number
before the name of the taxon is the same as the
one used in the checklist. A new taxon takes
the number of the taxon preceding it, adding a
letter after the number, as in the example: 4178a.
Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 D (Hviid 2018).
This means that Spodoptera cilium is a species
new to Denmark as well as the whole region, and
that it should be inserted after Spodoptera exigua,
which has number 4178.
New country records
ERIOCRANIIDAE
0020. Eriocrania salopiella (Stainton, 1854) Lt
(Ivinskis et al. 2018).
NEPTICULIDAE
0047. Stigmella freyella (Heyden, 1858) S
(Bengtsson 2020).
0051. Stigmella sakhalinella Puplesis, 1984 F.
0129. Trifurcula immundella (Zeller, 1839) N
(Aarvik et al. 2021), Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2018).
0136. Etainia louisella (Sircom, 1849) S
(Bengtsson 2019).
INCURVARIIDAE
0185. Incurvaria masculella (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
ADELIDAE
0216. Nemophora minimella (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) F, E.
0220. Adela reaumurella (Linnaeus, 1758) F.
TISCHERIIDAE
0245. Coptotriche marginea (Haworth, 1828) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019).
PSYCHIDAE
0308. Apterona helicoidella (Vallot, 1827) D
(Buhl et al. 2018).
TINEIDAE
0368. Trichophaga scandinaviella Zagulajev,
1960 E.
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0370. Elatobia fuliginosella (Lienig & Zeller,
1846) Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
0382. Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1966 Lt.
GRACILLARIIDAE
0473. Caloptilia della (Reutti, 1853) F, Lv, Lt
(Ivinskis et al. 2020).
0536. Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella (Bouché,
1834) I (Ólafsson 2018).
0556. Phyllonorycter viminetorum (Stainton,
1854) E.
0557. Phyllonorycter connexella (Zeller, 1846) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019).
YPONOMEUTIDAE
0595. Euhyponomeutoides ribesiella (Joannis,
1900) Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2020).
0604. Swammerdamia passerella (Zetterstedt,
1839) Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2018).
ARGYRESTHIIDAE
0626. Argyresthia trifasciata (Staudinger, 1871)
E.
GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE
0673. Digitivalva reticulella (Hübner, 1796) Lt
(Paulavičiūtė et al. 2017).
YPSOLOPHIDAE
0691. Ypsolopha mucronella (Scopoli, 1763) F.
LYONETIIDAE
0734. Leucoptera laburnella (Stainton, 1851) F.
0737. Leucoptera lathyrifoliella (Stainton, 1866)
D (omitted).
CHOREUTIDAE
0768. Choreutis diana (Hübner, 1822) Lt (Ivinskis
et al. 2019).
TORTRICIDAE
0797. Sparganothis pilleriana (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) Lv.
0973. Eupoecilia sanguisorbana (Herrich-
Schäer, 1856) E.
1001. Cochylis roseana (Haworth, 1811) S
(Bengtsson 2019).
1006. Cochylichroa atricapitana (Stephens, 1852)
(= Cochylis atricapitana) Lt (Ivinskis &
Rimšaite 2017).
1030. Apotomis lineana (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2018).
1062. Celypha woodiana (Barrett, 1882) Lt
(Ivinskis et al. 2020, Paulavičiūtė et al. 2020).
1115. Endothenia gentianaeana (Hübner, 1799)
Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2020).
1142. Ancylis comptana (Frölich, 1828) D (P.
Falck pers.comm.).
1193. Epinotia tedella (Clerck, 1759) I (E.
Ólafsson in litt.).
1195. Epinotia pusillana (Peyerimho, 1863) S
(Bengtsson 2019).
1212. Crocidosema plebejana Zeller, 1847 I
(omitted).
1257. Epiblema junctana (Herrich-Schäer,
1856) Lv.
1270. Notocelia rosaecolana (Doubleday, 1850) I
(E. Ólafsson in litt.).
1277. Retinia perangustana (Snellen, 1883) Lt
(Paulavičiūtė et al. 2020).
1323. Cydia conicolana (Heylaerts, 1874) F.
1330. Cydia grunertiana (Ratzeburg, 1868) Lv.
1336. Cydia leguminana (Lienig & Zeller, 1846)
N (Gustad & Aarvik in prep.)
1341. Cydia amplana (Hübner, 1799) Lv.
1354. Grapholita gemmiferana Treitschke, 1835
Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2019).
1358. Grapholita lobarzewskii (Nowicki, 1860)
Lt.
1370. Pammene albuginana (Guenée, 1845) Lt
(Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
1381. Pammene trauniana (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) S (Bengtsson 2018).
1383. Pammene aurita Razowski, 1992 Lv.
SESIIDAE
1443. Synanthedon aviventris (Staudinger, 1883)
N (Aarvik et al. 2021).
1445. Synanthedon myopaeformis (Borkhausen,
1789) F.
AUTOSTICHIDAE
1476. Oegoconia deauratella (Herrich-Schäer,
1854) Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
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OECOPHORIDAE
1486. Denisia albimaculea (Haworth, 1828) N
(Aarvik et al. 2021).
1488. Denisia luticiliella (Erscho, 1877) D
(Buhl et al. 2018).
1512. Batia internella Jäckh, 1972 F.
1520. Oecophora bractella (Linnaeus, 1758) Lv.
COSMOPTERIGIDAE
1649. Pancalia nodosella (Bruand, 1851) Lt
(Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
GELECHIIDAE
1678. Aproaerema larseniella Gozmány, 1957 Lt
(Paulavičiūtė 2019).
1700. Nothris gregerseni Karsholt & Šumpich,
2015 Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
1719. Dichomeris latipennella (Rebel, 1937) D
(Buhl et al. 2020).
1733. Helcystogramma albinervis (Gerasimov,
1929) F.
1803. Monochroa divisella (Douglas, 1850) E.
1866. Gelechia scotinella Herrich-Schäer, 1854
N (Aarvik et al. 2019).
1902. Scrobipalpa bryophiloides Povolný, 1966
E, D (Buhl et al. 2020).
1905. Scrobipalpa ocellatella (Boyd, 1858) S
(Bengtsson 2019).
1908. Scrobipalpa salicorniae (E. Hering, 1889)
N (Aarvik et al. 2019).
1913. Scrobipalpula tussilaginis (Stainton, 1867)
Lv.
1924. Caryocolum alsinella (Zeller, 1868) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019), Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite
2017).
1936. Caryocolum blandelloides Karsholt, 1981
Lv.
1937. Caryocolum proxima (Haworth, 1828) Lt
(Paulavičiūtė et al. 2017).
1938. Caryocolum blandulella (Tutt, 1887) Lv.
1957. Carpatolechia fugacella (Zeller, 1839) S.
ELACHISTIDAE
2006. Elachista dispilella Zeller, 1839 Lt (Sruoga
et al. 2019).
2011. Elachista dispunctella (Duponchel, 1843)
Lt (Sruoga et al. 2019).
2041. Elachista poae Stainton, 1855 N.
2042. Elachista atricomella Stainton, 1849 F.
2052. Eachista deriventa Kaila & Mutanen, 2008
Lv.
2058. Elachista bifasciella Treitschke, 1833 N
(Aarvik et al. 2019).
2081. Elachista consortella Stainton, 1851 Lv.
2091. Blastodacna hellerella (Duponchel, 1838)
Lv.
COLEOPHORIDAE
2132. Coleophora amellivora Baldizzone, 1979
Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2019).
2138. Coleophora asteris Mühlig, 1864 F.
2161. Coleophora jaernaensis Björklund &
Palmqvist, 2002 E.
2188. Coleophora chalcogrammella Zeller, 1839
Lt.
2207. Coleophora vulnerariae Zeller, 1839 F.
BLASTOBASIDAE
2308. Hypatopa segnella (Zeller, 1873) Lt
(Ivinskis et al. 2018).
EPERMENIIDAE
2357. Epermenia aequidentellus (E. Hofmann,
1867) D (Buhl et al. 2018).
PTEROPHORIDAE
2390. Stenoptilia veronicae Karvonen, 1932
(eborinodactyla auct.) D (Buhl et al. 2017,
2020).
2392. S. mariaeluisae Bigot & Picard, 2002
(inopinata auct.) I (E. Ólafsson in litt.).
2419. Oxyptilus tristis (Zeller, 1841) N (Aarvik et
al. 2019).
2427. Hellinsia inulae (Zeller, 1852) S (Bengtsson
2020).
NYMPHALIDAE
2556. Araschnia levana (Linnaeus, 1758) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019)
2589. Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) N (Aarvik et
al. 2021).
2594. Lasiommata megera (Linnaeus, 1767) E.
LYCAENIDAE
2664. Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) Lv.
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PYRALIDAE
2729. Sciota rhenella (Zincken, 1818) S
(Bengtsson 2020).
2769. Delplanqueia inscriptella (Duponchel,
1836) F, Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2018).
2775. Nephopterix angustella (Hübner, 1796) E.
2804. Eccopisa eractella Zeller, 1848 E.
2809. Euzophera bigella (Zeller, 1848) F.
2816. Ancylosis oblitella (Zeller, 1848) N (Aarvik
et al. 2019), F, E.
2824. Phycitodes lacteella (Rothschild, 1915) Lv,
Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2018).
2838. Cadra cautella (Walker, 1863) Lt (omitted).
2853. Endotricha ammealis (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) E.
CRAMBIDAE
2885. Sclerocona acutella (Eversmann, 1842) Lv.
2923. Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019), S (Bengtsson 2020), F.
2941. Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) F, E,
Lt (Paulavičiūtė & Mikalauskas 2018).
2950. Cynaeda pustulalis (Hübner, 1823) D (Buhl
et al. 2020).
3020. Pediasia luteella (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) S (Bengtsson 2017).
3028. Agriphila latistria (Haworth, 1811) F.
3029. Agriphila aeneociliella (Eversmann, 1844)
F.
3033. Agriphila biarmicus (Tengström, 1865) Lt
(Ivinskis et al. 2018).
GEOMETRIDAE
3121. Idaea ochrata (Scopoli, 1763) Lv, Lt
(Švitra et al. 2017)
3124. Idaea fuscovenosa (Goeze, 1781) E.
3144. Scopula virgulata (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) D (omitted).
3307. Pareulype berberata (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) E.
3361. Eupithecia abbreviata Stephens, 1831 Lt
(Švitra et al. 2018).
3387. Eupithecia insigniata (Hübner, 1790) F.
3402a. Eupithecia addictata Dietze, 1908 Lt
(Ūsaitis et al. 2019).
3458. Isturgia arenacearia (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) S (Palmqvist & Ryrholm 2020),
D (Larsen et al. 2020), E, Lv.
3473. Apocheima hispidaria (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) N (Aarvik et al. 2021).
3493. Peribatodes rhomboidaria (Denis &
Schiermüller, 1775) Lv, Lt (Švitra et al.
2017).
3548. Ennomos quercinaria (Hufnagel, 1767) F.
3623. Chlorissa cloraria (Hübner, 1813) F.
URANIIDAE
3636. Eversmannia exornata (Eversmann, 1837)
Lt (Švitra et al. 2018).
SPHINGIDAE
3714. Hyles euphorbiae (Linnaeus, 1758) N.
NOTODONTIDAE
3745. Drymonia obliterata (Esper, 1785) Lt
(Kaupys 2019).
EREBIDAE
3797. Hypena lividalis (Hübner, 1790) E.
3819. Laelia coenosa (Hübner, 1808) F.
3863. Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758) F.
3955. Eublemma parva (Hübner, 1808) N (Aarvik
et al. 2021).
3957. Eublemma purpurina (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775) N (Aarvik et al. 2021), S
(Palmqvist & Ryrholm 2020), D (Larsen et al.
2019).
3977. Catocala elocata (Esper, 1787) E, Lv.
NOCTUIDAE
4001. Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789) F, Lv.
4067. Cucullia verbasci (Linnaeus, 1758) F, E.
4166. Bryopsis muralis (Forster, 1771)
(= Nyctobrya muralis) N, F.
4185. Caradrina kadenii Freyer, 1836 S (Palmqvist
& Ryrholm 2020), D (Larsen et al. 2019).
4187. Caradrina albina Eversmann, 1848 S
(Palmqvist 2018).
4296. Apamea remissa (Hübner, 1809) I (omitted).
4299. Apamea crenata (Hufnagel, 1766) I
(omitted).
4321. Resapamea vulpecula (Eversmann, 1852)
(= R. hedeni) Lv.
4328. Xylomoia graminea (Graeser, 1889) E, Lv.
4373. Conistra rubiginosa (Scopoli, 1763) E, Lv.
4384. Lithophane ornitopus (Hufnagel, 1766) N
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(Aarvik et al. 2019).
4409. Atethmia centrago (Hübner, 1809) N
(Aarvik et al. 2021). Lv.
4423. Aporophyla lueneburgensis (Freyer, 1848)
E.
4429. Polymixis lichenea (Hübner, 1813) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019).
4476. Polia lamuta (Herz, 1903) N (Saarenmaa
2020).
4486. Lacanobia amurensis (Staudinger, 1901)
Lv.
4496. Hyssia cavernosa (Eversmann, 1842) Lv.
4507. Conisania leineri (Freyer, 1836) E.
4509. Hecatera dysodea (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) F, E.
4536. Mythimna l-album (Linnaeus, 1767) N
(Aarvik et al. 2021), E.
4540. Leucania loreyi (Duponchel, 1827) N, S
(Palmqvist & Ryrholm 2020).
4571. Euxoa vitta (Esper, 1789) E.
4581. Agrotis bigramma (Esper, 1790) Lv.
4591. Agrotis puta (Hübner, 1803) F.
4602. Diarsia orida (F. Schmidt, 1859) F.
4626. Noctua comes Hübner, 1813 I (E. Ólafsson
in litt.).
4655. Xestia distensa (Eversmann, 1851) N
(Aarvik et al. 2019).
NOLIDAE
4697. Nola cristatula (Hübner, 1793) Lv.
New taxa to the Nordic-Baltic area
DRYADAULIDAE
0312a. Dryadaula heindeli Gaedike & Scholz,
1998 N (Gustad & Aarvik 2017).
TINEIDAE
0324a. Triaxomera baldensis G. Petersen, 1983
Lt (Ivinskis & Rimšaite 2017).
0345a. Neurothaumasia Le Marchand, 1934.
0345b ankerella (Mann, 1867) D (P. Falck pers.
comm.).
0391a. Monopis jussii Kaila, Mutanen, Huemer,
Karsholt & Autto, 2020 N, S, F (Mutanen et
al. 2020).
GRACILLARIIDAE
0439a. Micrurapteryx kollariella (Zeller, 1839) D
(Buhl et al. 2019).
0441a. Parectopa robiniella Clemens, 1863 Lv,
Lt (Ivinskis et al. 2019).
0462a. Calybites quadrisignella (Zeller, 1839)
Lv.
0474a. Caloptilia honoratella (Rebel, 1914) D
(Buhl et al. 2019).
CHOREUTIDAE
0766a. Tebenna micalis (Mann, 1857) N (Aarvik
et al. 2021). In 2014 imported to Denmark as
larvae on Helichrysum italica in several
places; a single specimen was found in a light
trap. Since it has not been recorded, and the
species is considered introduced to Denmark.
TORTRICIDAE
0834a. Clepsis peritana (Clemens, 1860) D (Buhl
et al. in press).
0985a. Aethes bilbaensis (Rössler, 1877) D (Buhl
et al. 2020).
1222a. Eucosma albidulana (Herrich-Schäer,
1851) S (Ohlsson 2020).
1360a. Grapholita inopinata Heinrich, 1928 F
(https://laji./en/taxon/MX.5076585).
SESIIDAE
1454a. Chamaesphecia Spuler, 1910
1454b. nigrifrons (Le Cerf, 1911) Lt (Švitra et al.
2017).
OECOPHORIDAE
1518a. Esperia Hübner, 1825
1518b. sulphurella (Fabricius, 1775) D (Buhl et
al. 2018).
COSMOPTERIGIDAE
1668a. Ascalenia Wocke, 1876
1668b. viviparella Kasy 1969 Lt (Ivinskis et al.
2019).
GELECHIIDAE
1704a Neofaculta taigana Ponomarenko, 1998 N
(Aarvik et al. 2021), S, F.
1914a. Tuta Kieer & Jørgensen, 1910
1914b. absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) N (Aarvik et al.
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2021), S, F, D (Buhl et al. in press). Placed on
the list due to numerous recent records in
nature.
1955a. Carpatolechia aenigma (Sattler, 1983) Lt
(Paulavičiūtė 2017).
COLEOPHORIDAE
2212a. Coleophora variicornis Toll, 1952 Lv.
2237a. Coleophora sirella Tabell & Mutanen,
2019 F (Tabell et al. 2019).
SCYTHRIDIDAE
2332a. Scythris penicillata (Chrétien, 1900) E
(omitted).
PYRALIDAE
2737a. Gymnancyla hornigii (Lederer, 1852) D
(Buhl et al. 2018).
CRAMBIDAE
2865a. Paracorsia Marion, 1959
2865b. repandalis (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
F.
2906a. Udea costalis (Eversmann, 1852) Lv, Lt
(omitted).
2939a. Hodebertia Leraut, 2003
2939b. testalis (Fabricius, 1794) D (Buhl et al.
2020).
2978a. Eudonia angustea (Curtis, 1827) D (Buhl
et al. 2018).
3034a. Agriphila tolli (Błeszyński, 1952) F.
GEOMETRIDAE
3185a. Xanthorhoe uralensis Choi, 2003 F.
3329a. Perizoma saxicola Tikhonov, 1994 E.
3497a. Ascotis Hübner, 1825
3497b. selenaria (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
S (Palmqvist & Ryrholm 2020), Lt (Ivinskis et
al. 2020).
3583a. Pungeleria Rougemont, 1903
3583b. capreolaria (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) D (Skule & Hviid 2019).
SPHINGIDAE
3692a. Smerinthus caecus Ménétriés, 1857 Lv.
NOTODONTIDAE
Pygaerinae
3773a. Spatalia Hübner, 1819
3773b. argentina (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
F.
3782a. EUTELIIDAE
3782b. Eutelia Hübner, 1823
3782c. adulatrix (Hübner, 1813) D (Larsen et al.
2020).
EREBIDAE
3850a. Eilema caniola (Hübner, 1808) D (Larsen
2020).
NOCTUIDAE
4063a. Cucullia virgaureae Boisduval, 1840 F.
4068a. Phyllophila Guenée, 1852
4068b. obliterata (Rambur, 1833) F.
4178a. Spodoptera cilium Guenée, 1852 D (Hviid
2018).
4189a. Caradrina avirena Guenée, 1852 D
(Bech et al. 2017).
4387a. Lithophane leautieri (Boisduval, 1829) D
(omitted).
4422a. Aporophyla australis (Boisduval, 1829) D
(Larsen et al. 2019).
4531a. Mythimna alopecuri (Boisduval, 1840) D
(Larsen et al. 2019).
4629a. Noctua tertia von Mentzer, Moberg &
Fibiger, 1991 S (Palmqvist 2018).
Taxonomic changes
0029. Gazoryctra fuscoargenteus (O. Bang-
Haas, 1927) is a junior synonym. Replace with
G. uralensis (Grum-Grshimailo, 1899)
(Kallies & Farino 2018).
02590261, 02630264. According to Weidlich
& Arnscheid (2017) the parthenogenetic D.
lichenella (Linnaeus, 1761) is synonymous
with the bisexual D. fumosella (Heinemann,
1870). Robinson & Nielsen (1983)
synonymized D. lazuri (Clerck, 1759) with
D. fumosella. Consequently, the three names
lazuri, lichenella and fumosella represent
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the same species. In addition, Weidlich &
Arnscheid (2017) synonymized D. norvegica
(Strand, 1919) with D. lichenella. These
authors overlooked the synonymy established
by Robinson & Nielsen (1983) and used the
name lazuri for a dierent Finnish species.
The latter is actually without name. Arnscheid
& Weidlich (2017) stated that it may represent a
bisexual form of D. fennicella (Suomalainen,
1980).
0346–0357. Regier et al. (2015) erected the
family Meessiidae for some genera which
until then had been placed in the subfamily
Meessiinae in Tineidae. In recent publications
on European Tineoidea the family Meessiidae
has become accepted (Budashkin & Bidzilya
2018, Gaedike 2019, Gaedike & Falck 2019).
The four genera of Meessiinae are placed in
the separate family Meessiidae before
Psychidae. However, it is still not certain if the
three genera Stenoptinea Dietz, 1905,
Karsholtia Gaedike, 1986 and Agnathosia
Amsel, 1954 really belong in Meessiidae.
0362. Haplotinea Diakono & Hinton, 1956
belongs to Myrmecozelinae (Gaedike 2019).
0361. The subfamily name Perissomasticinae
should be removed.
0664. Rhigognostis hufnagelii (Zeller, 1839) was
placed in the genus Eidophasia Stephens,
1842 (Baraniak 2020).
09921011. A molecular phylogeny of the subtribe
Cochylina was recently published (Brown
et al. 2020). These authors also indicated that
Cochylis epilinana (Duponchel, 1842)
should be placed in a genus of its own, but
it was overlooked that Longicornutia
Razowski, 1960 was available (Brown 2005,
Kovács & Kovács 2020). The reclassication
of species hitherto placed in Cochylidia
Obraztsov, 1956; Cochylis Treitschke, 1829
and Falseuncaria Obraztsov & Swatschek,
1958 is presented here:
Thyraylia Walsingham, 1897
nana (Haworth, 1811)
Cochylichroa Obraztsov & Swatschek, 1958
atricapitana (Stephens, 1852)
Pontoturania Obraztsov, 1943
posterana (Zeller, 1847)
Brevicornutia Razowski, 1960
pallidana (Zeller, 1847)
Cochylis Treitschke, 1829
roseana (Haworth, 1811)
aviciliana (Westwood, 1854)
Longicornutia Razowski, 1960
epilinana (Duponchel, 1842)
Neocochylis Razowski, 1960
hybridella (Hübner, 1813)
dubitana (Hübner, 1799)
Falseuncaria Obraztsov & Swatschek, 1958
degreyana (McLachlan, 1869)
ruciliana (Haworth, 1811)
Cochylidia Obraztsov, 1956
subroseana (Haworth, 1811)
richteriana (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1837)
moguntiana (Rössler, 1864)
heydeniana (Herrich-Schäer, 1851)
implicitana (Wocke, 1856)
rupicola (Curtis, 1834)
0926. Acleris implexana (Walker, 1863) is
Nearctic (Gilligan et al. 2020). Replace with
A. ferrumixtana (Benander, 1934).
0987. Aethes adelaidae (Toll, 1955) raised
to species rank: (https://laji./en/taxon/
MX.5013777) F, Lv.
1471. Holcopogon bubulcellus (Staudinger,
1859) is a junior synonym and is replaced by
H. adseclella (Eversmann, 1844) (Sinev et al.
2017).
1629. Peleopodinae upgraded to family level. In
our area only the genus Carcina is represented
(Wang & Li 2020).
1635. Ethmiinae upgraded to family level and
placed close to Elachistidae (Wang & Li 2020).
1704a. Neofaculta taigana Ponomarenko, 1998 is
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9
a cryptic species which has been confused with
N. infernella. It is a northern Holarctic species
and has been found in N, S and F (Aarvik et al.
2021).
1708. Anarsia lineatella Zeller, 1839 is to be
replaced by A. innoxiella Gregersen &
Karsholt, 2017 (Gregersen & Karsholt 2017).
1784. Apodia bifractella (Duponchel, 1843) is to
be replaced by Apodia martinii Petry, 1911.
The former has a more southern distribution in
Europe, but the ranges of the two species are
not known in detail (Huemer & Karsholt 2020).
1812. Monochroa parvulata (Gozmány, 1957)
was transferred to the genus Pragmatodes
Walsingham, 1908 (Huemer & Karsholt 2020).
1813. Eulamprotes Bradley, 1971 is a synonym
of Oxypteryx Rebel, 1911 (Bidzilya et al.
2019, Huemer & Karsholt 2020). Its
constituent species are transferred to Oxypteryx.
1914a. Corro Chang & Metz (2021) recently
transferred Tuta absoluta to Phthorimaea,
based on a phylogenetic analysis of 22
morphological characters of eight species. We
agree that T. absoluta is more closely related to
Phthorimaea operculella than to Tuta
atriplicella Kieer & Jörgensen, 1910.
However, their male genitalia are distinctly
dierent – much more than between many
genera of Gnorimoschemini. The latter
may be oversplit, and the generic structure
of Gnorimoschemini should be analysed
based on a larger number of taxa from dierent
genera and with a character set that includes
both morphological and molecular characters.
T. absoluta is a serious pest on tomatoes
etc., and the literature on it, since it was
introduced to the Old World, runs to
thousands of publications. Most of these are
on applied entomology, and researchers in that
eld are notoriously unhappy about changes in
nomenclature. Seen in the light of the
uncertainty of the generic placement of T.
absoluta, which is also admitted by Corro
Cheng & Metz (op. cit.: 51) who write: «Our
results support a need for generic re-
classication of the taxon absoluta under
its original genus, Phthorimaea», we nd
it premature to change its generic name. We
are of the opinion that for the time the stability
of nomenclature is best served by not changing
the generic combination, and we therefore
recombine it as Tuta absoluta (Meyrick),
comb. rev.
2053. Elachista zernyi Hartig, 1941 is a junior
synonym of E. stelviella Amsel 1932 (Kaila
2019).
2392. DNA barcoding shows that Danish
specimens identied as Stenoptilia inopinata
Bigot & Picard, 2002 is conspecic with
barcoded specimens of S. mariaeluisae Bigot
& Picard, 2002 from Iceland.
2548–2553. A revised classication of Argynnis
Fabricius, 1807 aiming at reconciling the
systems used in Europe and North America
was recently published (De Moya et al. 2017).
The new system was adopted in the new
European buttery checklist (Wiemers et
al. 2018). This results in the following updated
classication of the Nordic-Baltic species:
Argynnis Fabricius, 1807
paphia (Linnaeus, 1758)
laodice (Pallas, 1771)
Fabriciana Reuss, 1920
niobe (Linnaeus, 1758)
adippe (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
Speyeria Scudder, 1872
aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758)
2650. Scolitantides vicrama (Moore, 1865)
is transferred to Pseudophilotes Beuret, 1958
(Wiemers et al. 2018).
2654. Phengaris Doherty, 1891 has been given
priority over Maculinea Van Eecke, 1915
(ICZN 2017). This means that the nomenclature
used in our checklist can continue.
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2763. Khorassania Amsel, 1951 is a synonym
of 2734 Pempelia Hübner, 1825. The species
Khorassania compositella is combined with
Pempelia as Pempelia compositella
(Treitschke, 1835) (Slamka 2019).
2765. Moitrelia Leraut, 2001 is a synonym of
Uncinus Amsel, 1951. The species Moitrelia
obductella is combined with Uncinus as
Uncinus obductella (Zeller, 1839) (Slamka
2019).
2836. Ephestia unicolorella Staudinger, 1881 is to
be replaced by E. woodiella Richards &
Thomson, 1932. The former is a southern
species known from Turkey and Syria (Leraut
2014, Buhl et al. 2020).
2843. Pyralis regalis (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775) is to be replaced by P. cardinalis Kaila,
Huemer, Mutanen, Tyllinen & Wikström, 2020
which was recently separated from the former
(Wikström et al. 2020).
3101–3609. The classication of Geometridae
has recently undergone numerous changes,
and a system which includes tribes is emerging.
The new system is presented in the 6th volume
of Geometrid Moths of Europe (Müller et al.
2019). Some additions and modications can
be found in Brehm et al. (2019), Murillo-
Ramos et al. (2019) and Sihvonen et al. (2020).
3604. Elophos Boisduval, 1840 is replaced by
Yezognophos Matsumura, 1927 (Müller et al.
2019).
3606. Glacies Millière, 1874 is a synonym of
Psodos Treitschke, 1825 (Müller et al. 2019).
3960a. Euclidia mi (Clerck, 1759) is placed in the
genus Callistege Hübner, 1823. Callistege
was upgraded from status as subgenus of
Euclidia Ochsenheimer, 1816 to status as a
separate genus by Lafontaine & Schmidt
(2010). Treating the two genera as synonyms
would also mean having to synonymize the
genus Mocis Hübner, 1823 (Zahiri et al. 2012:
g. 6).
4070. Protodeltote Ueda, 1984 was upgraded from
status as subgenus of Deltote Reichenbach,
1817 to full generic status by Schmidt et
al. (2018). This results in the combination
Protodeltote pygarga (Hufnagel, 1766).
4165. Nyctobrya Boursin, 1957 is replaced by
Bryopsis Boursin 1970 (Vargas-Rodríguez et
al. 2020).
4321. Resapamea hedeni (Graeser, 1888) is
a junior synonym. Replace with R. vulpecula
(Eversmann, 1852) (Kononenko 2005).
4345. Some of the genera proposed by Beck
(1992) were treated inconsistently in the
checklist. With some doubt we accept the
diagnosis given by Beck (1992) for Fissipunctia
as nomenclaturally valid. The publication by
Beck is part of the 1991 volume of the journal
Atalanta. It was, however, printed in 1992.
4360–4370. The monographic treatment of the
Eurasian and North African Agrochola Hübner,
1821 generic complex (L. Ronkay et al. 2017)
has led to a revised classication of the group:
Agrochola Hübner, 1821
lychnidis (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
Anchoscelis Guenée, 1839
Omphaloscelis Hampson, 1906 syn.
nitida (Denis & Schiermüller, 1775)
lunosa (Haworth, 1809)
litura (Linnaeus, 1758)
helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Leptologia L.B. Prout, 1901
lota (Clerck, 1759)
macilenta (Hübner, 1809)
Sunira Franclemont, 1950
circellaris (Hufnagel, 1766)
Propenistra Berio, 1980
laevis (Hübner, 1803)
4468. We consider the diagnosis given by Beck
(1992) as valid. Thus the genus should be cited
as Coranarta Beck, 1992.
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4486. Lacanobia amurensis (Staudinger, 1901).
For this species the name Lacanobia aliena
(Hübner, 1809) has been used in European
literature. It was pointed out by Poole
(1989) that Noctua aliena Hübner, 1809 (now
in Lacanobia) is a primary homonym of
Noctua aliena Hübner, 1808 (a synonym of
Eriopygodes imbecilla (Fabricius, 1794)). In
the Danish catalogue (Karsholt & Stadel
Nielsen 1998) the name Lacanobia amurensis
(Staudinger, 1901) was adopted as a
replacement name. This was a nomenclatural
act in accordance with the 3rd edition of
the ICZN Code of 1985 which was in use
at that time. Had it been after 1999 when the
4th edition of the ICZN Code was published,
'reversed precedence' could have been used
to give Noctua aliena Hübner, 1809 precedence
over N. aliena Hübner, 1808. With Lacanobia
amurensis (Staudinger, 1901) now in prevailing
usage, reversal of precedence is not permitted.
Consequently, Lacanobia aliena (Hübner, 1809)
cannot be used as the valid name for this species.
4474. Polia conspicua (A. Bang-Haas, 1912)
is a junior synonym. Replace with P. vesperugo
Eversmann, 1856 (Varga et al. 2017).
Corrections
0536. Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella. Spelling
of species name.
1339. Cydia splendana. Add parenthesis before
Hübner, 1799.
1480. Deuterogonia pudorina (Wocke, 1857).
Year of description.
1538. Agnoea elsae. Add parenthesis before and
after Svensson, 1982.
1683. Aproaerema vinella Bankes, 1898. Remove
parenthesis.
2467. Carcharodus alceae (Esper, 1780). Year of
description.
2512. Pontia chloridice (Hübner, 1813). Year of
description.
2522. Colias croceus (Georoy, 1785). Author.
2546. Brenthis daphne (Denis & Schiermüller,
1775). Author and year.
2566. Nymphalis xanthomelas (Denis & Schier-
müller, 1775). Author and year.
2630. Chazara briseis. Spelling of species name
2666. Aricia nicias (Meigen, 1829). Year of
description.
2857. Uresiphita gilvata (Fabricius, 1794). Delete
I’ (E. Ólafsson in litt.).
3396. Eupithecia goossensiata. The reference in
the comment on page 166 should be (Hausmann
et al. 2011) (not Hausmann et al. 2013).
3654. Lasiocampa quercus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Delete ‘I’ (E. Ólafsson in litt.).
4267. Longalatedes Beck, 1992. Year of
description.
Acknowledgements. The authors wish to thank all persons
who have shared information about new records. In particular
we thank Thomas Pape, Copenhagen, for giving advice on
the nomenclatural problem concerning Lacanobia amurensis,
and Erling Ólafsson, Reykjavik, Iceland for information
on additions to the Lepidoptera fauna of Iceland. Per Falck,
Neksø, Denmark, informed about new species for Denmark in
2020. We are indebted to the referees for careful checking of
the manuscript, which resulted in numerous improvements.
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A multigene phylogenetic study was carried out to test current, mostly morphology‐based hypotheses on Sterrhinae phylogeny with additional material included from further geographical areas and morphologically different lineages. A maximum likelihood analysis (11 molecular markers and 7665 bp) was conducted on 76 species and 41 genera using iq‐tree software. The resulting phylogenetic hypothesis is well resolved and branches have high support values. Results generally agree with earlier hypotheses at tribal levels and support the hypothesis that Sterrhinae comprises two major lineages. Based on the molecular phylogeny and extensive morphological examination, nine tribes are considered valid and the following taxonomic changes are introduced to recognize monophyletic groups: Mecoceratini Guenée, 1858 (= Ametridini Prout, 1910) is transferred from Desmobathrinae to Sterrhinae, and it is considered valid at tribal level new classification; Haemaleini Sihvonen & Brehm is described as a new tribe and deemed sister to Scopulini + Lissoblemmini; Lissoblemmini Sihvonen & Staude is described as a new tribe and sister to Scopulini; Lythriini Herbulot, 1962 is now a junior synonym of Rhodometrini Agenjo, 1952 syn.n.; and Rhodostrophiini Prout, 1935 is now a junior synonym of Cyllopodini Kirby, 1892 syn.n. In addition, 48 taxa are transferred from other geometrid subfamilies to Sterrhinae, or within Sterrhinae from one tribe to another, or they are classified into a tribe for the first time, or a new genus classification is proposed. The results demonstrate the limited explanatory power of earlier classifications, particularly at the tribal level. This is probably a result of earlier classifications being based on superficial characters and biased towards the European and North American fauna. The species richness and distribution of Sterrhinae and its constituent tribes are reviewed, showing that the globally distributed Sterrhinae are most diverse in the Neotropics (31% of global fauna). They are species‐rich in the Palaearctic (22%), Afrotropics (19%) and Indo‐Malay (16%) regions, whereas they are almost absent in Oceania (1%). In terms of the described fauna, the most species‐rich tribes are Scopulini (928 species), Sterrhini (876 species) and Cosymbiini (553 species), all of which have a cosmopolitan distribution. Mecoceratiini and Haemaleini are almost entirely Neotropical. Timandrini and Lissoblemmini, by contrast, are absent in the Neotropics. We present a revised classification of the global Sterrhinae fauna, which includes about 3000 putatively valid species, classified into nine tribes and 97 genera. Four genera are of uncertain position within Sterrhinae. Our results highlight the compelling need to include more genera from a global perspective in molecular phylogenetic studies, in order to create a stable global classification for this subfamily. This published work has been registered on ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A66F5DDD‐06D6‐4908‐893E‐E8B124BB99B1. We analysed the phylogeny of Sterrhinae moths based on molecular dataset of 76 species and 11 genes, combined those with morphology and included the results in a global classification framework. Two new tribes are described, Mecoceratini is transferred from Desmobathrinae to Sterrhinae, and 50 other taxonomic changes are proposed. Sterrhinae are a cosmopolitan group of about 3000 species, with the highest species richness in the Neotropics and the lowest in Oceania.