Catoptria richteri sp. nov. (Figs 13, 36) Holotype male: Montenegro, Durmitor, Sedlo Dobri Do, 1.vii.2012, Ignác Richter legit, GS 7411 GB, RCIR, to be deposited in TLMF. Etymology: The new species is named in honour of the collector of the holotype and other valuable Lepidoptera material from the Balkans. A noun in the genitive case. Diagnosis: See diagnosis under C. domaviellus. Description: Male: Wingspan 35 mm. Labial palpi 3.5 X longer than widest diameter of eye, with inner and upper side off-white and outer side brown sprinkled with yellow. Maxillary palpi basally brown sprinkled with yellow, distally pale yellow.Antennae thickened, blackish brown with bright yellow costa. Frons subconical, pointed, off-white. Ocelli and chaetosemata poorly developed. Head, patagia and tegulae pale yellow suffused with white. Thorax off-white with yellow edge. Wings with pattern and colours as illustrated (Fig. 13). Underside of forewing bright bronze brown with light white suffusion and edge yellow. Underside of hindwing pale bronze brown suffused with yellow. Legs yellow with paler inner side, outer spur half as long as inner spur. Male genitalia: (Fig. 36) Uncus and gnathos of the same length, the uncus pointed and down curved apically, the gnathos apically subtriangular. Tegumen subtriangular, with arms slender and basally rounded. Vinculum stout, 0.45 as long as valva, distally upcurved. Pseudosaccus subcylindrical, well developed. Juxta small, v-shaped. Valva subrectangular, narrowing distally, with rounded cucullus; pars basalis basally as large as valva, then larger, with folded sub-basal lamella with lower edge produced, with blunt apex with bottom edge slightly directed downwards and tapering. Phallus longer than valva, with phallobase slightly downcurved and vesica with about 20 thin and slender cornuti. Female unknown. Distribution: Montenegro.

Published as part of Bassi, Graziano & Huemer, Peter, 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes on the Catoptria coulonellus (Duponchel) species group with description of five new species from Western Balkans (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae), pp. 301-326 in Zootaxa 5719 (3) on page 315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891611