Taxonomic revision of Asapharcha Meyrick, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae), with descriptions of four new species Author Bidzilya, Oleksiy V. Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebediev str., 03143, Kyiv, Ukraine. & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D- 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. Author Mey, Wolfram Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, D- 10115 Berlin, Germany. Author Rajaei, Hossein 0000-0002-3940-3734 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D- 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. hossein.rajaei@smns-bw.de text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-24 5443 4 548 566 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.4 1175-5326 11064338 86523897-9C0A-4A21-A03B-B549BCE74B53 Asapharcha fuscomaculata ( Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 ) , comb. nov. Figs 3 , 18 , 26 , 33 , 40 Lacistodes fuscomaculata Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 . Esperiana Memoir, 6: 213. Holotype ( ♂ ) and 5 paratypes ( 3 ♂ , 2 ♀ ), examined (MfN). Material examined. 1 ♀ , Namibia , Kunene , Epupa Falls , 21–23.ii.2008 , LF, leg. W. Mey ; gen. slide 38/23, O. Bidzilya ; 1 ♂ , Namibia , 40 km N Palmwag , 1133 m , 27–28.ii.2008 , LF, leg. W. Mey ; gen. slide 37/23, O. Bidzilya (MfN) . FIGURES 1–10. Asapharcha spp. , adults, dorsal view. 1. A. angustella sp. nov. , holotype, male (South Africa, Lelyfontein; gen. slide 48/09, O. Bidzilya). 2. A. centrotypa , holotype, male (Zimbabwe, Sawmills, gen. slide “g. 4248”). 3. A. fuscomaculata , holotype, male (Namibia, Kunene, Palmwag Lodge). 4. A. hirsuta , holotype, male (Zimbabwe, 38 miles N of Bulawayo, road to Victoria Falls). 5. A. lacistoides sp. nov. , holotype, male (Namibia, Hobatere Lodge). 6. A. ochrocapitella sp. nov. , holotype, male (Zimbabwe, Bulawayo; gen. slide 508/07, O. Bidzilya). 7–10. A. strigifera . 7. Female (South Africa, Gauteng Province, junction of Crocodile and Marico rivers; gen. slide B.M. 7393). 8. Male (holotype of Lacistodes brunneostola ). 9. Male (Namibia, Varianto, Otavi Mts). 10. Male (Namibia, Waterberg NP; gen. slide 44/09, O. Bidzilya). Diagnosis. The species remotely resembles A. tauropis , but differs in the narrower, light brown rather than greyish-brown forewing with a basal spot that is connected to the dorsal margin ( Fig. 3 ) (the basal spot is not connected to dorsal margin in A. tauropis ). The male genitalia are distinguished by the long uncus (equal in length to the cucullus and longer than the tegumen), the distally broad gnathos (distally narrowed in the rest of Asapharcha species ), and a phallus with a large subapical process ( Fig. 26 ) (short subapical process in A . tauropis ). The large (1/3 width of sternum VIII) subrhomboidal subostial sclerite and broad ductus bursae ( Fig. 33 ) (irregular, small, 1/5 width of sternum VIII subostial sclerite and very slender ductus bursae in A. tauropis ) are diagnostic for this species. Distribution. Asapharcha fuscomaculata is known only from Namibia .