New or poorly known Tineidae from Mauretania, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (Lepidoptera) Author Gaedike, Reinhard text Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2009 2009-12-15 59 2 489 512 https://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/article/view/1762 journal article 10.21248/contrib.entomol.59.2.489-512 0005-805X 5364907 Reisserita luteopterella PETERSEN, 1957 Morocco : 1 ♂ , Arbaa Sahel, 29°36'46" 09°54'20" 14. 5. 2005 , leg. et Coll. WERNO: First record other than the typical series . Reisserita karsholti sp. n. Material: Holotype , ♂ “ Morocco , 25 km S Essaouira Sidi Kaould , 100 m , 28.iii.2005 O. KARSHOLT”; “Coll. ZMUC Copenhagen Denmark ”; “Gen. präp. [genitalia slide] GAEDIKE NR: 6181"; “ Holotypus ♂ Reisserita karsholti sp. n. det. R. GAEDIKE 2008”; ZMUC . Description ( Fig. 5 ): Wingspan 15 mm ; head brush clay-coloured, antenna dark grey, labial palp light clay-coloured, second segment with numerous long dark brown bristles; thorax and forewing clay-coloured, without any pattern; hindwing grey. Male genitalia (Figs 28-31). Uncus broad at basis, proximally with V-shaped incision, two pointed tips; gnathos arms strong, with clearly developed knee-shaped processus ventrally, dorsally at 1/3 bent, with pointed tip; tegumen broad, edged; vinculum large, triangular, on each side at 1/2 with a small hook-shaped processus (insertion of transtilla); valva nearly parallel, dorsal edge straight, ventral edge at 1/2 convex, with rounded tip, transtilla nearly as long as valva; phallus longer than uncus+tegumen, thin, with two small cornuti. Female genitalia. Unknown. Life history: Unknown. Etymology: Named in honour to the collector, OLE KARSHOLT. Remarks: The new species is superficially similar to zernyi PETERSEN, 1957 , but the shape of genitalia is clearly different (incision on uncus V-shaped, shape of gnathos arms, shape of valva and the long transtilla, and the hook-shaped processi on vinculum).