Two new species of Gisilia Kasy, 1968 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) from Korea with first report of piercing oviscapts in Gelechioidea
Author
Sohn, Jae-Cheon
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
text
Zootaxa
2018
4418
2
179
186
journal article
30101
10.11646/zootaxa.4418.2.7
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1175-5326
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Gisilia
Kasy, 1968
Gisilia
Kasy, 1968
: 516
. Type species:
Ascalenia stereodoxa
Meyrick, 1925
.
Melnea
Clarke, 1986
: 180
. Type species:
Ascalenia armigera
Meyrick, 1923
.
Diagnoses
.
Gisilia
is similar to
Bifascioides
Kasy, 1968
, in the presence of the asymmetrical valvae, the lack of a sclerotized uncus in the male genitalia and the presence of piercing oviscapt in the female genitalia, but differs from the latter in having the forewing vein M1 free from the vein Rs4 (M1 branching off from Rs
4 in
Bifascioides
).
Gisilia
is characterized by the forewing vein M1 branching off from the Rs3+Rs4 stem (
Kasy 1968
); the male genitalia having asymmetrical valvae and lacking a sclerotized uncus (
Kasy 1968
); and the female genitalia having the ostium bursae shifted to the left side of the sternite VII with a sclerotized band around it (
Kasy 1970
).