Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick 1914

Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914 (Figure 3, 6, 6a, 7, 7a) Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914: 217. Type locality: Ceylon, Colombo, Peradeniya. Type depository: NHMUK. Material. KOREA: GG, 1#, Mt. Kalbong, 9 vii 2011, leg. B.W. Lee, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-6192 (HNUSEL); 1#, Lake Yuklim, 16 vii 2015, leg. S.Y. Park, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5944 (KNAE); 1 f#, Lake Yuklim, 6 vii 2017, leg. Lee, Rho, Shin, Shon & Choi, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5943 (KNAE); 1 m #, Gwangju-si, 21 vi 2018, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-6497 (HNUSEL); CN, 1 f#, Mt. Yeonmi, 11 vii 2015, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5968 (HNUSEL); US, 4 f#, Ulju-gun, 25 vii 2018, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide nos. HNUSEL-5896, 5945, 5966, 5967 (HNUSEL); 2 f#, Ulju-gun, 25 vii 2018, leg. D.S. Kim, genitalia slide nos. HNUSEL-6503, 6504 (HNUSEL). Description (Fig. 3). Wingspan 9–11 mm. Head covered with smooth yellowish scales.Antenna blackish brown; scape with scattered yellowish scales; flagellum with yellowish rings. Labial palpus long and curved upwards, yellowish, apex with dark brown scales. Thorax blackish brown. Legs dark brown with white rings. Forewing blackish brown; antemedian lemony cream line wide; three lemony cream dots at 1/2 and 5/6 of costal margin and 2/3 of dorsal margin; cilia whitish brown to dark brown. Hindwing pale fuscous; cilia pale brown. Abdomen shining dark fuscous. Male genitalia (Fig. 6, 6a). Brachia elongated triangular, symmetrical and heavily sclerotized. Valvae short, asymmetrical, with few elongated setae; left valva shorter, thicker, and slightly more sclerotized. Vinculum slightly sclerotized. Saccus 2 times the length of the right valva, slender. Aedeagus thick and long, 2/3 the length of saccus. Female genitalia (Fig. 7, 7a). Papillae anales long and rounded, setose. Sterigma long and parallel-sided, well sclerotized. Ductus bursae rather wide; ductus seminalis wide and short. Corpus bursae oval, with two symmetrical, hook-shaped and strongly sclerotized signa. Distribution. Korea (new record), China (Zhang & Li 2023), Russia (Sinev 2019), Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan. Biology. Bred from refuse lodged in a fork of Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae); no doubt the larva fed on the leaves as usual in the genus (Fletcher 1920). Probably can develop on other fabaceous plants as well.