New and poorly known Tineidae from the Western Palaearctic (Lepidoptera)
Author
Gaedike, Reinhard
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2011
2011-11-10
61
2
357
370
https://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/article/view/1800
journal article
6445
10.21248/contrib.entomol.61.2.357-370
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Neurothaumasia tenuipennella
sp. n.
Material:
Holotype , “Romana, Carao-Severin, MunUit, Alma, Dubova,
44°37'N
22°15'E
,
150 m
,
15.vii.2005
, leg. B.
SKULE, C.
HVIID & E. VESTERHEDE;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen, DK;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 7100;” “Holotypus
Neurothaumasia tenuipennella
sp. n. det.
R. Gaedike
2011
.”
-
Paratypes: 3 , “Hellas, Crete, Nom. Chania,
35°25'44N
,
23°55'22E
, Skines,
75 m
,
5.-11.vi.2004
, leg. B. SKULE, C. HVIID & E. VESTERHEDE;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen, DK;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] GAEDIKE
Nr.
6556
,
6694
,
7106
;” ZMUC (two specimens); SDEI (one specimen);
1 , “YU, Croazia, KRK, Skrpcici (W.L.),
4.viii.1977
, leg. BALDIZZONE;”, “Bldz PG n° 13806 ;” coll. BALDIZZONE; 1 , “GREECE, Lesvos, Skala Kallonis, Malemi hotel,
19°12'33N
,
26°12'13E
,
11.-13.vi.2009
, L. KAILA & J. KULLBERG leg.;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] GAEDIKE Nr. 7235;” FMNH; 1 , 1 specimen without abdomen, “[location unreadable], 20.5.[19]14;” ““ANASTANASTASE ALFIERI Collection 1965;” “Coll. ALFIERI Egypte;”“Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] GAEDIKE Nr. 4931;” USNM
.
Description
(
Figs 1-2
):
Wingspan
8-9 mm
; head brush dark brown-grey, nearly black, apically lighter, scales from neck to insertion of antennae and above palpi flat; labial palpi outside brown-grey, inside creamy, second segment apically with some bristles; thorax and tegulae dark brown-grey; forewing narrow, dark brown-grey, females at 1/2 on dorsum and before apex with short yellowish stripe, by males the stripe before apex nearly unvisible; hindwing dark grey.
Male genitaliagenitalia
(
Figs 6-8
): Uncus with two long socii, basally broad, narrower to truncated tip, tegumen broad, laterally the long thin saccus deep impressed; valva with long transtilla, costa straight, ventral edge convexe, valva at 1/2 broadest, narrower to rounded apex; phallus as long as valva, narrow, with some very small spines subapically.
Female genitalia
(
Fig. 9
): Ventral branch of apophysae ends in a nearly square plate, ostium cup-shaped, apically with fine granulate sclerotization, first part of ductus bursae strong sclerotized.
Etymology:
Named after the narrow forewings.