A new species of Gelechiidae is described from the Cottian Alps (Italy, France), a mountain ridge with a high proportion of endemism Monochroa sperata sp n is most closely related to M inflexella SVENSSON, 1992, from northern and central Europe but differs by the yellowish-brown labial palpi and structures of the male genitalia M inflexella is recorded as new to France and Hungary
A new species of Gelechiidae is described from the Cottian Alps (Italy, France), a mountain ridge with a high proportion of endemism Monochroa sperata sp n is most closely related to M inflexella SVENSSON, 1992, from northern and central Europe but differs by the yellowish-brown labial palpi and structures of the male genitalia M inflexella is recorded as new to France and Hungary
Huemer, P. & Karsholt, O. 2010. A new endemic species of <i>Monochroa </i>from the south-western Alps (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). <i>Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen</i>, 62: 81-86.