A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 840: 101–131New (2019) species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse from China 101 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.840.30434 RESEARCH ARTICLE http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research New species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from China Houhun Li1, Oleksiy Bidzilya2 1 College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 2 Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebedev str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine Corresponding author: Houhun Li (
[email protected]) Academic editor: E.J. van Nieukerken | Received 9 October 2018 | Accepted 19 March 2019 | Published 17 April 2019 http://zoobank.org/CAA617DD-B1C3-4246-B79A-201920592335 Citation: Li H, Bidzilya O (2019) New species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from China. ZooKeys 840: 101–131. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.840.30434 Abstract An annotated list of 71 species of the genus Scrobipalpa in China is given. Nine species of the genus Scro- bipalpa Janse, 1951 are described as new: S. triangulella sp. n. (Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi), S. punctulata sp. n. (Henan, Shanxi), S. septentrionalis sp. n. (Heilongjiang, Ningxia), S. zhongweina sp. n. (Ningxia), S. tripunctella sp. n. (Hebei, Ningxia, Shanxi), S. ningxica sp. n. (Ningxia), S. psammophila sp. n. (Ningxia), S. zhengi sp. n. (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia), and S. liui sp. n. (Shanxi). Scrobipalpa gorodkovi Bidzilya, 2012 is synonymised with S. subnitens Povolný, 1967. The female of S. flavinerva Bidzilya & Li, 2010 is described for the first time.