Taxonomic review of the Oiketicoides species (Lepidoptera: Psychidae: Oiketicinae Acanthopsychini) from Anatolia, the Middle East and Central Asia
Author
Arnscheid, Wilfried R.
Im Ostholz 58, 44879 Bochum, Germany.
Author
Sobczyk, Thomas
Diesterwegstrasse 28, 02977 Hoyerswerda, Germany.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-10
5239
3
373
394
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5239.3.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5239.3.3
1175-5326
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Oiketicoides jordana
(
Staudinger, 1899
)
(
Figs 5
,
34
)
Psyche jordana
Staudinger, 1899: 160
,
lectotype
in MfN (examined). Type locality:
Probably
Israel
(“Jordanthal”).
Material examined
: 2 ♁
Jordan
, Southwest, Ar Rajif,
1200 m
, early summer 2002, LF, leg. G. Müller; 1 ♁
Palestine
,
10 km
N Nablus,
660 m
,
15.vii.1999
, leg. G. Müller; 1 ♁ “Palaestina”, Dr. Bytinski-Salz.
Redescription
.
Head
. Frons and vertex rough short brownish hairy. Eyes EI 0.66. Antennae of more than half forewing length with 28–30 very long pecten.
Thorax
. Wings. Covered with brownish hair-like scales. Wingspan
21–22 mm
, forewing length
10–11 mm
. Forewings are broad, costal margin straight or slightly convex. Light brownish grey, hindwings with the same colour. FI 2.6. Forewing with short to medium long scales, mostly lanceolate or with two dentations.
Abdomen
distinctly protruding the anal margin of the hindwings.
Male genitalia
. GP 4127, 4150, 4152 (
Fig. 34
), 4153. Broad in general appearance. Tegumen pointed, broadly folded laterally. When closed, valvae protruding the distal end of the tegumen. Valvae slender, clasper of the sacculus more sclerotized, covered with 4–6 short spines. Cucullus is long and slender, directed downwardly. Vinculum broad, the lobes laterally hardly pronounced. Saccus long and straight, not enlarged caudally. Phallus is nearly straight, narrower distally, hammer-shaped, and two-lobed distally with a ventral inversion.
Female. Unknown. Larval case. Length
35–45 mm
, width
10–13 mm
, covered irregularly with long twigs of shrubs and thin grass stems (
Fig. 1a, b
).
Distribution
. Widespread but rarely collected in Near East. After
Andres (1912)
also in
Egypt
(in MfN
2 specimen
with data “Aegyptus”).