Western Palaearctic Ectoedemia (Zimmermannia) Hering and Ectoedemia Busck s. str. (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): five new species and new data on distribution, hostplants and recognition
Author
van Nieukerken, Erik
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Author
Laštůvka, Aleš
Mendel University of Agriculture & Forestry, Brno ,, Czech Republic
Author
Laštůvka, Zdeněk
Mendel University of Agriculture & Forestry, Brno ,, Czech Republic
text
ZooKeys
2010
2010-01-08
32
32
1
82
journal article
10.3897/zookeys.32.282
d33a3344-7f9a-4028-8569-2b7643d9b43f
1313–2970
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Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) similigena
Puplesis
Figs 24–26, 31–32
Ectoedemia (Ectoedemia) similigena
Puplesis, 1994: 180
.
Holotype
♁ [
Ukraine
]: the
Crimea
,
Yalta
,
Nikita
(
Nikitskiy
) botanical garden,
20.V.1981
, leg.
Vasilyeva
(ZIN).
Diagnosis
.
Ectoedemia similigena
is very similar to
E. turbidella
and cannot be distinguished by external characters on the basis of the little material studied. The male genitalia have a distinctly longer valval tip than
turbidella
, and the gnathos is much narrower. Th e female genitalia have the posterior apophyses not reaching beyond the anterior ones and the signa are distinctly wider.
Partial
redescription.
Male forewing length ca. 3.0 mm, antennal segments 55. Female forewing length 2.6 mm, antenna broken. Specimens too much worn or broken for detailed description, similar to
E. turbidella
, overall paler.
Male genitalia (Figs 24–26). Capsule length
325 µm
. Tegumen produced into widely rounded pseuduncus. Gnathos with central element narrowly triangular, smooth. Valva length
215 µm
, in ventral view with almost parallel sides, evenly curved towards demarcated, inwards curved tip, pointed and cut off at end. Aedeagus 365 ♁µm long, very long (1.12 × capsule length) and stout, with two pairs of prominent