Cosmoclostis spp.

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GI: Cosmoclostis cf pesseuta Meyrick, 1906

1.The Pterophoridae of Bhutan (Lepidoptera), with the description of a new
species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie · March 2018. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-20192076

2.Cosmoclostis premnicola Fletcher, 1932 - Sci.Menegr No.2 Ind.Agric:1 pl.1
3.C permnicola is a junior subjective synonym for C pesseuata - See Lepindex at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=517&page_no=1&page_size=30
Since genitalia info is not available a cf has been added.

Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmoclostis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/447456-Cosmoclostis-leucomochla/browse_photos

JR: Agree with the identification. But I think, it's better to keep in genus level. There is another species, Cosmoclostis auxileuca Meyrick, 1907; which is also very similar to C. pesseuta, and to me this observation looks more like the former, i.e. auxileuca.

SS review: 4 species known from India. Best retained at genus level.
Cosmoclostis Meyrick, 1886 species known from India.
Cosmoclostis auxileuca Meyrick, 1907. India: Assam (TL).
Cosmoclostis leucomochla Fletcher, 1947. India; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Cosmoclostis pesseuta Meyrick, 1906. India; Sri Lanka; Bhutan.
Cosmoclostis aglaodesma Meyrick, 1886. India; Sri Lanka.
Pathania, P.C., Gielis, C., Das, A. and Chandra, K., 2021. Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India. Zootaxa, 4915(2), pp.201-236.
Gielis, C. and Wangdi, K., 2018. The Pterophoridae of Bhutan (Lepidoptera), with the description of a new species. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 161(2), pp.79-109.
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