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
Hapsiferona remanei
sp. n.
Holotype
: , “
Sudan
,
El Damar
,
Hudeiba
,
12.vi.1962
, leg.
R. Remane
, Staats[samm]l[un]g München;” “Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5556;” “
Holotypus
,
Hapsiferona remanei
sp. n.
, det.
R. Gaedike
2013;”
ZSM
;
Paratype
: 1 , “[
Sudan
]
Hudeiba
,
21.iii.1962
, Lighttrap;” “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 2483;”
SDEI
.
Derivatio nominis
: Named after the collector, R. Remane.
Diagnosis
(
Fig. 4
): Wingspan
16 mm
; head brush yellowish creamy; antennae a little longer than forewings, scapus white, with pecten, flagellum creamy; labial palpi pale creamy, scales subapically dark brown, second segment with long scales, third segment short, thin; thorax in the first quarter light brown, other parts creamy, tegulae brown, apically paler; forewing creamy, mixed with light and dark brown, without distinct pattern. Dark brown are a strip along base of fringe to apex with an oblique prolongation to a patch below costa at 3/4, an indistinct marking at 1/2 on cell and on base; hindwings shiny.
Male genitalia
(
Figs 30-32
): Uncus with two rounded lobi, gnathos arms angled, basal half broader than apical half, tip rounded to pointed, area from uncus to the gnathos arms overlaid with a net of minute sclerotisations; saccus basally broad, narrower to blunt tip, as long as one gnathos arm; valvae as long as uncus-tegumen, basally broad, narrower to rounded apex, phallus as long as valva, more or less parallel-sided.
Female genitalia
: unknown.
Remarks
: Superficially distinguishable by the checkered pattern of forewings. In male, genitalia characterised by having short saccus.