Topiris sampitella Sterling & Price & Lees 2025, comb. nov.

Topiris sampitella (Lvovsky, 2014) comb. nov. Figs 18, 48 Metathrinca sampitella Lvovsky, 2014: 196. DNA barcode. N / A. Type material. Indonesian Borneo [Kalimantan]: Holotype • ♂, South Borneo, Sampit, 0–50 m, 20. ii. 1950, W. Buyn leg., specimen no. RMNH. INS. 1283491, slide no. Gen Prep No. 63, A. Lvovsky det. The holotype is held at NBC. Material examined. Photographic images of the adult, original description including Alexander Lvovsky’s drawing of the male genitalia. The genitalia slide was not located. The original description does not contain an image of the adult. Remarks. It is apparent from a low-resolution image of the ventral surface of the adult that, in the forewing, R 3 is present, R 3, R 4, and R 5 have a common stalk and M 3 and CuA 1 are stalked. The data which was apparent from the material examined was included in our analyses, although the genitalia drawing does not show the saccus, vinculum, sacculus or tegumen characters and, importantly, according to the original description the aedeagus is missing. However, the drawing of the gnathos shows a typical Topiris gnathos, with a medial plate weakly projecting posteriorly from the lateral arms (Fig. 48) and is not Athrypsiastis. The species appears in Figs 1 b, 2 within the Topiris clade and not within the candidella or albidella groups. It does not form a clade with Metathrinca. It is therefore placed within the T. salva group.