Abstract
Eighty-two species of Cochylini are recorded from Iran. Previous studies dealing with the tribe are summarized, and new data on the distribution of the Iranian species are provided. Aethes kandovana sp. n. is described; three genera, viz. Ceratoxanthis Razowski, Gynnidomorpha Turner, and Cochylidia Obraztsov, and the species Phtheochroa durbonana (Lhomme), P. syrtana Ragonot, P. inopiana (Haworth), P. decipiens (Walsingham), P. kenneli Obraztsov, P. subfumida (Falkovitsch), Cochylimorpha alternana (Stephens), C. armeniana (Joannis), C. kurdistana (Amsel), C. langeana (Kalchberg), C. montana (Razowski), C. nodulana (Möschler), C. nuristana (Razowski), Phalonidia manniana (Fischer von Röslerstamm), Gynnidomorpha permixtana ([Denis & Schiffermüller]), Ceratoxanthis iberica Baixeras, Eugnosta lathoniana (Hübner), Aethes conversana (Walsingham), A. deutschiana (Zetterstedt), A. eichleri Razowski, A. fennicana (Toll), A. scalana (Zerny), A. williana (Brahm), Cochylidia moguntiana Roessler, C. rupicola (Curtis), C. implicitana (Wocke), and Diceratura ostrinana (Guenée) are newly reported. The previously unknown male of Cochylimorpha fluens (Razowski) and the previously unknown females of C. scrophulana Razowski and C. montana (Razowski) are described.References
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