Taxonomy and faunistics of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in southern Siberia
Author
BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY
Author
HUEMER, PETER
Author
ŠUMPICH, JAN
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-12-06
5218
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5218.1.1
journal article
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Scrobipalpa tannuolella
sp. nov.
Figs 17
, 76
Type material.
Holotype
♂
,
Russia
,
Tuva
rep.,
50°45’N
94°29’E
,
E.
Tannu-Ola
mts,
5 km
ENE,
Khol-Oozha
, steppe slopes,
1250 m
,
16–19.vi.1995
(
Jalava
&
Kullberg
) (gen. slide 320/16, OB) (
MZH
).
Diagnosis.
The new species is characterised externally by the uniformly greyish brown forewing with black mark in fold and a pair of black dots edged with brown in the cell corner. The similar species,
S. ochraeata
sp. nov.
differs in the absence of black markings in the cell corner and in fold.
Scrobipalpa reiprichi
Povolný, 1984
is rather similar in the male genitalia, but differs externally in well developed black streaks on the costal margin. Long cucullus (far extending beyond top of uncus), short narrow vincular processes and elongate uncus are characteristic of the male genitalia.
Scrobipalpa reiprichi
differs in the shorter cucullus (not extending beyond the top of uncus), a narrower gap between cucullus and sacculus, more elongate vinculum and the saccus extending far beyond the top of the pedunculus (see for comparison
Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 382
, fig. 37). The new species differs from
S. intima
(
Povolný, 2001
)
and
S. punctulata
Li & Bidzilya,
2019
in the longer cucullus, a distinct transition from tegumen to uncus, and the sacculus distinctly bent apically.
Description. Adult
(
Fig. 17
). Wingspan
11.3 mm
. Head, thorax and tegulae covered with grey, brown-tipped scales, frons grey, labial palpus upcurved, light grey mixed with brown, palpomere 2 white on inner and upper surface, scape brown, flagellomeres brown ringed with light grey. Forewing uniformly greyish brown, fold with black mark and mixed with light brown, pair of black spots edged with brown in cell corner, diffuse light grey subapical transverse fascia at 3/4, cilia grey, brown-tipped. Hindwing covered with grey, brown-tipped scales, cilia grey.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 76
). Uncus twice as long as broad, weakly narrowed apically, slightly constricted at 1/4, posterior margin with small medial emargination; gnathos short, narrow, pointed; tegumen elongate, with distinct transition to uncus, anteromedial emargination broad, extending to 1/3; cucullus narrow, of even width except slightly expanded in apical 1/4, extending distinctly beyond top of uncus; sacuulus at base broader than cucullus, outer margin distinctly bent, 1/5 length of cucullus, with inwardly curved pointed tip, gap to cucullus broad and deep; vinculum twice as broad as long, posteromedial emargination broad, V-shaped, vincular processes short, narrow, with outwardly curved tip; saccus gradually narrowed towards pointed apex, extending beyond top of pedunculus; distal portion of phallus moderately broad, of equal width, apex rounded, apical arm narrow, caecum weakly inflated, 1/3 length of phallic tube.
Female.
Unknown.
Biology
. The
holotype
was collected in mid June in steppe slopes at an altitude of
1250 m
.
Molecular data.
No barcode available.
Distribution.
Russia
:
Tuva
.
Etymology.
The species name reflects the distribution of the new species in the Tannu-Ola Mountain of
Tuva
Republic in
Russia
.