Diagnostic description:
Diagnosis. The only fasciate species of this group with a dark frontal tuft. Further recognized by long spatulate androconiae. Male genitalia with basal bulbous part and vesica with one complete coil. Distinguished from castanopsiella and lithocarpella by the papillate lobes on the valvae. Female as yet unknown. See further cited descriptions.
Associations:
Reared from a Quercus species (Kemperman et al. 1985), and here reported from Quercus dentata, mine linear (according to label data), otherwise unknown.
Distribution:
Japan, Kyushu and Hokkaido (new record, see material), Primorskiy Kray. To be expected in China.
Citation:
This taxonomic description is based on Van Nieukerken (2000).
Taxonomic name: