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
Psecadioides stuebneri
sp. n.
Holotype
: , “
Oman
mer. Prov.
Dhofar
,
8 km
W
Al Mghsayl
,
80-100 m
, N 16°51'99,3", E 53°42'91,1", LF [lux]
23.-24.xii.2009
, leg.
L. Lehmann
, Bittner & Stadie;” “
Holotypus
,
Psecadioides stuebneri
sp. n.
, det.
R. Gaedike
2014;”
SDEI
;
Paratypes
: 11 , same location, same dates,
three specimens
with genitalia slide (
R. Gaedike Nr.
7923, 7953, 7954);
SDEI
; coll.
Stübner.
Derivatio nominis
: Named after Andreas Stübner, who enabled me to study the
Oman
tineids.
Diagnosis
(
Figs 5-6
): Wingspan
20-27 mm
; head white, scales below antennae obliquely erect, the others directed to palpi; antennae white, scape with long white pecten, flagellomeres on upper side white, the opposite side dark grey, bipectinate, pectinations elongate and ciliate (
Fig. 6
); labial palpi on inside white, on outside grey; thorax and tegulae pale grey, tips of thorax and tegulae white; forewings pale grey with a pattern of white stripes. One straight stripe from base below costa to 1/3, a curved stripe below costa from 2/3 to apex, a stripe on base of fringe and an upwardly curved stripe from base at dorsum to beginning of fringe; hindwings grey. Some specimens with ground colour on forewings a darker grey.
Male genitalia
(
Figs 33-35
): Uncus large, apically rounded, with minute tip; tegumen broad, vinculum with short pointed saccus; gnathos arms long, apically rounded and fused; valva spatulate, ventral edge at first half straight, second half convexe to rounded apex, costal edge concave; apodeme strongly sclerotised, the sclerotisation prolonged rod-shaped inside the valva; phallus shorter than valva, slightly curved, apically incised, one side pointed, other side more or less rounded, with some minute teeth.
Female genitalia
: Unknown.
Remarks
: Superficially characterised by the bipectinate antennae.