Two new species of the genus Odites Walsingham, 1891 (Lepidoptera: Peleopodidae) from Japan with taxonomy and larval biology of Odites sungsookimi (Sohn & Wu, 2023) comb. nov.

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Arashima, Hazumu, Oku, Johei, Sohn, Jae-Cheon, Yagi, Sadahisa, Tomura, Shunsuke, Oka, Taiyo, Hirowatari, Toshiya (2025): Two new species of the genus Odites Walsingham, 1891 (Lepidoptera: Peleopodidae) from Japan with taxonomy and larval biology of Odites sungsookimi (Sohn & Wu, 2023) comb. nov. Zootaxa 5716 (3): 349-364, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.3AbstractTwo new species of the genus Odites Walsingham, 1891, Odites saitoi Arashima, Oku & Yagi sp. nov. and O. kumatai Arashima, Oku & Yagi sp. nov. are described from Japan. Scythropiodes sungsookimi Sohn & Wu, 2023 is transferred to Odites and redescribed with larval biology. The imagos and genitalia of both sexes are illustrated for all three species of Odites. Twenty DNA barcode sequences were obtained for four species of Odites and three species of Scythropiodes.