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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.800.26292" ID-GBIF-Dataset="216546ea-85b8-4a1d-89c3-4c88818cc79d" ID-PMC="PMC6284011" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-800-1" ID-PubMed="30532621" ID-ZBK="EB5EC9C8D9804F5ABD9AE48DB4158D59" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2018" ModsDocID="1313-2970-800-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 800" ModsDocTitle="Revision of the genus Megacraspedus Zeller, 1839, a challenging taxonomic tightrope of species delimitation (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae)" checkinTime="1543542350729" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Huemer, Peter &amp; Karsholt, Ole" docDate="2018" docId="A4AFC10997B1B8770A6E22DBF5D51648" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 800: 1-278" docOrigin="ZooKeys 800" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.800.26292" docTitle="Megacraspedus occidentellus Huemer &amp; Karsholt, 2018, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="7F60E509-29B6-4D15-9792-E6D739B6B712" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="72" masterDocId="FF97FFAFDB35FFAAFFD1B44AFF8EBF02" masterDocTitle="Revision of the genus Megacraspedus Zeller, 1839, a challenging taxonomic tightrope of species delimitation (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae)" masterLastPageNumber="278" masterPageNumber="1" originalUpdateDomain="Boston" originalUpdateTime="1543542350729" originalUpdateUser="pensoft" pageNumber="71" updateTime="1668166474188" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Revision of the genus Megacraspedus Zeller, 1839, a challenging taxonomic tightrope of species delimitation (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Huemer, Peter</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/7F60E509-29B6-4D15-9792-E6D739B6B712" class="Insecta" family="Gelechiidae" genus="Megacraspedus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megacraspedus occidentellus" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentellus">Megacraspedus occidentellus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="70" pageNumber="71">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Examined material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Holotype ♂, &quot;Portugal, Ext. [=prov. Estremadura] Ericeira, 30 m 4.-8.vii.1986 O. Karsholt&quot; &quot;GU 13/1352 ♂ Huemer&quot; (ZMUC). Paratypes. Portugal. 3 ♂, same data as holotype, but genitalia slide 6520 Hendriksen (TLMF, ZMUC); 1 ♂, Estremadura, 3 km E Capo da Roca, 200 m, 8.vii.1986, leg. O. Karsholt (ZMUC).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Adult. Male (Figure 55). Wingspan 9-12 mm. Segment 2 of labial palpus with moderately long scale brush, brownish on outer surface and on apical half of inner surface, otherwise white; segment 3 white mottled with blackish brown on lower and outer surface and with black tip. Antennal scape without pecten; flagellum dark brown, indistinctly ringed with black. Head, thorax and tegula as forewing. Dorsal half of forewing light yellow, costal half light brown, extending into a dark brown apical streak; costa whitish; fringes light grey. Hindwing grey with light grey fringes. Female. Unknown.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="70" pageNumber="71">Variation. The few examined specimens show a slight variation in the forewing colour which, however, may be due to a more or less fresh condition.</paragraph>
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Male genitalia (Figure 191). Uncus slender digitate, about 3 times longer than maximum basal width, apex rounded; gnathos hook bulky, with longitudinal grooves, slightly longer than uncus, straight, apically strongly sclerotised, pointed; anterior margin of tegumen with deep V-shaped emargination, pedunculi small, drop-shaped; valva straight, stout, extending slightly beyond middle of uncus, distorted apical part rounded; saccular area densely covered with setae, with weakly separated sacculus; posterior margin of vinculum with U-shaped emargination, broadly rounded lateral humps, suboval vincular sclerites with sclerotised posterior edge; saccus semi-oval, apically tapered, about same length and width, posterior edge weakly arched, with shallow medial inci
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, medial part with strongly sclerotised furcated longitudinal ridge, lateral sclerites shorter than maximum width of saccus; phallus stout, inflated coecum about twice width and almost length of distal part, sclerotised ridge in distal part without group of spines medially, ductus ejucalatorius with contorted linear interior sclerotisation.
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<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Female genitalia. Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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sp. n. is a rather uncharacteristic
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which can be recognized by lacking black dots and whitish coloured veins on the forewing. It is similar, e.g., to the slightly larger
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sp. n. (Figure 46), but can be recognized by its more uniformly coloured dark antennae, and by having the forewing colour separated by a lighter dorsal part and a darker costal part, the latter extending into a dark brown apical streak. The male genitalia differ from other species of the
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species group in having a slender uncus and in particular the posteriorly deeply incised saccus and the stout phallus with a comparatively large coecum.
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<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Molecular data.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Not available, barcoding failed.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="71" pageNumber="72" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Western Portugal.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Host plant and early stages are unknown. The type series was collected in early July at low altitudes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="71" pageNumber="72">This species is named after its occurrence at the most western part of continental Europe. The species name is derived from a combination of the Latin occidentalis (meaning western) and the diminutive suffix -ellus. The name is a compound noun.</paragraph>
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