2026 Volume 77 Issue 1 Pages 57-72
In the third part of this study on the genus Meleonoma Meyrick in the family Oecophoridae, four species are treated. Two of them are new species (Meleonoma tsushimaensis sp. nov., M. yaeyamaensis sp. nov.), and one species (M. robustispina Wang, 2020) treated as M. sp. 4 in Kitajima and Sakamaki (2021), is a newly recorded species from Japan. The female genitalia of M. robustispina Wang are described here for the first time. In this part, adult specimens of these species, their wing venations, and male and female genitalia are illustrated in detail. Since Part I of this study (Kitajima and Sakamaki, 2020) dealt with eight species, Part II (Kitajima and Sakamaki, 2021) with seven species, except for M. robustispina (treated as M. sp. 4), and this part deals with four species, the total number of Meleonoma species from Japan consists of 19 species. A taxonomic key for these 19 species was presented in this part.
