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.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-10
5239
3
373
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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 eldarica
(
Kozhanshikov, 1956
)
(
Figs 21
,
43
)
Amictoides eldarica
Kozhanshikov, 1956: 412
,
syntypes
in ZIN. Type locality:
Azerbaijan
.
Material examined
:
6 ♁
Turkey
,
Erzurum
,
Kirecli Gec.
, W-Seite,
2150 m
,
9–10.viii.1995
, leg.
H. & P. Kautt
;
1 ♁
Turkey
,
Adana
,
7 km
N Saimbeyli
,
1400 m
,
8.viii.1992
, leg.
Kautt
&
Weisz
;
18 ♁
Turkey
,
Van
,
5 km
W Gevas
, ca.
1800 m
,
13–19.viii.1995
, leg.
P. Kautt
;
1 ♁
Turkey
,
Prov.
Tunceli
,
Munzur Daglari
,
11 km
NE Tunceli
,
Munzur Vadisi Milli Park
,
1050 m
,
7.viii.2005
, leg.
Tibor Czövári
;
1 ♁
Kleinasien
(
Turkey
),
Prov.
Kars
,
Araş-Tal
,
Umg. Kağizman
,
1700 m
,
29.viii.1977
, leg.
de Freina
;
1 ♁
Turkey
,
Kars
,
Akcay
,
1400 m
,
17.viii.1979
, leg.
Eckweiler
(
MWM
,
CWA
,
CTS
).
Redescription
.
Head
. Frons and vertex are densely covered with light brown hair. Eyes EI 0.5. Antennae of nearly half forewing length, with very long and widely separated pecten and 28 segments.
Thorax
. Wings. Wingspan
21–23 mm
, forewing length
9–10 mm
. Wings short, broad, costal margin almost straight, slightly concave at the base. Apex roundish, termen oblique, posterior margin straight. Less densely covered with long yellowish to greyish brown very thin hair-like scales, more densely at the base. FI 1.8. Hindwings of the same colour as forewings, somewhat darker greyish at the anal angle. Abdomen. Protruding distinctly the hindwings, conical and densely covered with yellowish-grey hair.
Male genitalia
. GP 4168 (
Fig. 43
). Quite similar to
O. minuta
but spines on the clasper of the sacculus are shorter. Valvae and cucullus broader. Saccus is longer, slenderer.
Female. Unknown.
Larval case. Unknown.
Distribution
. Described from
3 males
, collected in the Eldar range in
Azerbaijan
. Rarer and localized also on the eastern and south-eastern part of the Anatolian peninsula.