Notes on Palaearctic Scythrididae, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Scythrididae)

In this paper 13 species of the family Scythrididae from Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia and Jordan are treated. Scythris hebesella sp. n. is described from central Turkey, S. hemicycliella sp. n. from the Altai Mountains, and a previously unknown female of S. elenae Nupponen, 2000 from the southern Ural Mountains. S. caroxylella Falkovitch, 1969 is reported as new to Mongolia, S. eversmanni Nupponen & Nupponen, 2000 as new to Ukraine, and four species as new to Jordan, and further records of three rare scythridids from the southern Ural Mountains. The determination of the bifissella species complex is discussed and genitalia photographs of its four taxa are presented.