A new species of the genus Scoliokona Kallies et Arita, 1998 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) from Halmahera, Indonesia

island of Celebes (= Sulawesi) and North Maluku (islands of Ternate, Halmahera and Bachan) [Walker, 1865 [“1864”]; Felder, Felder, 1874; Moore, 1879; Swinhoe, 1892; Le Cerf, 1916, 1917; Hampson, 1919]. And already in the Lepidopterological Catalog we find information about 24 species, the distribution of which is associated with Wallacea [Dalla Torre, Strand, 1925]. Similar information was published somewhat later in the famous work of A. Seitz [Gaede, 1933]. On this, knowledge of the Wallacea clearwing moth fauna remained frozen until the end of the century, when it became possible to revise the types of species described by F. Le Cerf [Arita, Gorbunov, 1996]. Unfortunately, this work did not affect the taxonomic composition of the clearwing moth fauna of Wallacea, but allowed us to focus on such an interesting, but little-studied region. As a result, several papers describing five species have been published [Gorbunov, 2014, 2016, 2020a–b; Gorbunov, Arita, 2015, 2016, 2018]. Thus, in total 29 species native to Wallacea were recognized prior to this study. The present publication with the description of another species increases the total number of Wallacea species of Sesiidae to 30. As I noted earlier, during a short-time trip to North Maluku, Indonesia in February–March 2017, I could collect several very interesting species of Sesiidae with the help of artificial sex attractants produced by PHEROBANK®, Wijk bij Duurstede, the Netherlands [Gorbunov, 2020a–b]. A detailed study of both the appearance and structure of the male genitalia of one of the collected species showed its incredible resemblance it to Scoliokona nanlingensis Kallies et Arita, 2014, which was most recently described from South China [Kallies et al., 2014]. In addition, this species, which I describe ABSTRACT. Scoliokona jailolo sp.n. is described from Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia. The new species is very similar both externally and in the male genitalia to S. nanlingensis Kallies et Arita, 2014, which was described from South China. The type series of the new species was collected using artificial sex attractants.