New taxa and new records of Afrotropical Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera) with a distributional checklist
Author
Gaedike, Reinhard
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2020
2020-12-01
70
2
359
364
http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.70.2.359-364
journal article
10.21248/contrib.entomol.70.2.359-364
0005-805X
4755521
D8D54724-6892-4BCA-B7BD-020A1145D14F
Ochromolopis xeropa
(MEYRICK, 1909)
RSA
: 1,
West
Cape
,
N Montagu
,
Burger Pass
,
27.xi.2013
, leg.
W. Mey
;
ZMHB
;
1 ,
West
Cape
,
Villiersdorp
, Wolf-
Kloof
,
26.ii.2014
, leg.
W. Mey
:
ZMHB
.
The studied material contains the first known male specimen, which allows description of the genitalia structure (
Figs 11–13
):
Uncus long, straight, at 1/3 from base laterally each with small bristled area, tip rounded, with dentate edge, tegumen with more strongly sclerotized edges; valva as long as uncus and tegumen, from broad base narrowing to rounded tip, longitudinally folded, basal end of costal edge more strongly sclerotized, costal arm basally with upwardly directed rounded tip, apex dorsally enlarged and rounded, ventrally prolonged to a pointed tip; phallus nearly as long as valva, vesica with a large area with dense thin thorns, subapically a smaller area with some isolated larger and smaller thorns, in the apical half a narrow rod-shaped sclerotizaion.