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.We report some surprising recent distributional range extensions of one extant genus and two more families of primitive moths discovered in amber fossils from South-east Asia which were previously only known from Australia and/or the southwestern Pacific, with the possible exception of an undescribed Siberian fossil attributed to   Lophocoronidae  . During entomological field work in rain forests of central Vietnam a new species of   Micropterigidae   was discovered. It is described herein as    Aureopterix   bachmaensis    sp. nov. based on male and female specimens collected at light in the Bach-Ma National Park. The identification was corroborated by a molecular analysis. This is the first record of this genus in the Northern Hemisphere, previously thought to be restricted to the Australian Region (including New Caledonia). First results of investigations of Burmese amber inclusions now reveal the presence of the Australian Region families   Agathiphagidae   and   Lophocoronidae   in the Cretaceous of Asia. The fossil taxon    Agathiphagama   perdita    gen. nov.,  sp. nov.  is established on the basis of two females and this is assigned to   Agathiphagidae  . The fossil genus    Acanthocorona    gen. nov. is established in   Lophocoronidae   and includes seven species described here as    A.   skalskii    sp. nov. ,    A.   bowangi    sp. nov. ,    A.   muelleri    sp. nov. ,    A.   kuranishii    sp. nov. ,    A.   sattleri    sp. nov. ,    A.   spinifera    sp. nov.  and    A.   wichardi    sp. nov.  The new species can be distinguished by the male genitalia which are illustrated together with wing venation and other morphological characters. The disjunct ranges of these taxa are discussed in a historical biogeographic context. Vicariance and dispersal hypotheses explaining the disjunct pattern are discussed. The discovery of these new species suggests a broader ancestral range of    Aureopterix   ,   Agathiphagidae   and   Lophocoronidae  . Their extant ranges may be regarded as remnants or relicts of a wider distribution in the Mesozoic, or at least in the case of    Aureopterix    they could be the results of recent or ancient dispersal processes, since the calibration of molecular splits does not so far accord with plate tectonics.

nota lepidopterologica

New taxa of extant and fossil primitive moths in South-East Asia and their biogeographic significance (  Lepidoptera  ,   Micropterigidae  ,   Agathiphagidae  ,   Lophocoronidae  )