On the Tineidae of the Southern Arabian Peninsula and Sudan (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) Author Gaedike, Reinhard text Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2014 2014-12-15 64 2 193 219 https://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/article/view/1857 journal article 10.21248/contrib.entomol.64.2.193-219 0005-805X 4753614 Proterospastis spinosa sp. n. Holotype : , “ Yemen , 600 m , Prov. Al Hudaydah , Jabel , Burra , 25 km SE Bajil , 23.-24.iv.1998 , [leg.] M. Fibiger et al.;” “Coll. ZMUC Copenhagen Denmark ;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6048;” “ Holotypus , Proterospastis spinosa sp. n. , det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZMUC ; Paratypes : 1 , “ Yemen , Prov. Ibb , 5 km NE Al Qa’jdah , 28.iv.1998 , [leg.] M. Fibiger et al.;” “Coll. ZMUC Copenhagen Denmark ;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6063;” ZMUC ; 1 , “ Yemen , Ta’izz , Ta’izz , 22.-23. iii.1992 , [leg.] R. Linnavuori ;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5982;” FMNH . Derivatio nominis : Name refers to the existence of the thorns in the vesica. Diagnosis ( Fig. 18 ): Wingspan 10-12 mm ; head brush pale yellowish; antennae: scape with same colouration, flagellum darker; labial palpi on outside brown, on inside paler, second segment bristled; thorax and tegulae pale yellowish, only basally darker; forewings with a brown pattern on pale yellowish ground color. Brown are oblique stripes from base to dorsum, at 1/2 from costa to dorsum and at 3/4 from costa to dorsum; hindwings grey. Sometimes the entire coloration is darker, the stripes do not reach dorsum, the entire forewing is covered by some dark brown scales and the hindwings are grey-brown. Male genitalia ( Figs 59-61 ): Uncus truncated, gnathos arms fused, apically narrow, with rounded tip; tegumen narrow, rod-shaped, strongly sclerotised; vinculum and saccus sub-triangular; valvae as long as vinculum-saccus, basal third more or less parallel-sided, then costal edge narrower to rounded apex, ventral edge straight; phallus basally rounded, pistol-shaped, vesica with numerous pointed thorns. Female genitalia : Unknown. Remarks : Superficially similar to P. autochthones and P. merdella , but the pointed thorns in the vesica of phallus are clear different in comparision to these two species.