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 acuta
(
Kozhanshikov, 1956
)
(
Figs 14
,
40
)
Amictoides acuta
Kozhanshikov, 1956: 413
,
holotype
in ZIN. Type locality:
Azerbaijan
,
Gəncə
(Russian ГЯНджа (Gjandscha)).
Material examined
: 1 ♁
Azerbaijan
,
Talysh
,
Gildera
,
Zuvand
,
1800 m
,
2–3.ix.1992
, leg.
Sinajev
; 1 ♁
Azerbaijan
,
Talysh
,
Aurora
,
12 km
S
Lenkoran
,
350 m
,
27.ix.–12.x.1992
, ex coll.
Schintlmeister
; 1 ♁
Azerbaijan
,
Talysh
,
Kalahan
/
Zuvand
,
1600 m
,
31.viii.–1.ix.1992
, ex coll.
Schintlmeister.
Redescription
.
Head
. Frons and vertex are densely covered with light brown hair. Eyes EI 0.68. Antennae of nearly half forewing length with short segments and 36–37 pecten.
Thorax
. Wings. Wingspan
22–25 mm
, forewing length
10–11 mm
. Wings short, costal margin straight, slightly concave at the base. Apex roundish, termen oblique, posterior margin straight. FI 1.83. Covered with greyish-brown hair-like and weak lanceolate scales mixed with short, bifurcated scales. The costal margin is darker brownish and more densely scaled. Hindwings of the same colour.
Abdomen
. Protruding the hindwings, slender and densely covered with hair.
Male genitalia
. GP 4167 (
Fig. 40
). Resembles
O. taurica
but tegumen less pointed, more roundish, and clasper of the sacculus only with 6–7 inwardly directed short spines.
Female. Unknown.
Larval case. Unknown.
Distribution
. First described from the north-western part of
Azerbaijan
where a couple of males have been collected at the foothills of the Caucasus range. Now it has also been collected in the Talysh district in South-East
Azerbaijan
.