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The genus
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comprises about 40 described (and many undescribed) small moths, which are mainly distributed in the Old World tropics. The records listed above represent a new genus and species for the Bulgarian fauna. Previously, 19 species (in 10 genera) from the family
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were known from
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(Beshkov 2000,
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Zahiri
<emphasis id="B975E261FFCB134CC85A7130FE46B578" box="[372,434,537,561]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">et al</emphasis>
. 2012
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). In Europe,
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is recorded from
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(including the
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),
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(including
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),
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(including
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) (Fibiger &amp; Skule 2013) and
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(
<collectingCountry id="F3167EE3FFCB134CC8067149FE7DB532" box="[296,393,611,635]" name="France" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Corsica</collectingCountry>
) (
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Fibiger
<emphasis id="B975E261FFCB134CCB2B714EFDCFB532" box="[517,571,611,635]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">et al</emphasis>
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). This species has a mainly Afrotropical distribution and is known also from
<collectingCountry id="F3167EE3FFCB134CC8C371A3FDB8B5E8" box="[493,588,649,673]" name="Turkey" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Turkey</collectingCountry>
,
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,
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,
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,
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, Zaire,
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,
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,
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, and
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. The first records from Europe are from 1990 (
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). Its discovery in
<collectingCountry id="F3167EE3FFCB134CCB2471F9FD8DB5A2" box="[522,633,723,747]" name="Bulgaria" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Bulgaria</collectingCountry>
may confirm the speculation that
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rapidly expanded its range in the Mediterranean (
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Fibiger
<emphasis id="B975E261FFCB134CCA7771D0FC67B458" box="[857,915,761,785]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">et al</emphasis>
. 2007
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). However, this small species might have been simply overlooked by lepidopterists (who often collect mainly Macrolepidoptera), which could be an alternative explanation for why it was not reported previously from
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despite of its characteristic appearance (
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: 1).
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<emphasis id="B975E261FFCB134CC9937514FEECB11E" bold="true" box="[189,280,1598,1623]" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Fig. 1.</emphasis>
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: 1 - Male, Kamenitsa, 10.viii.2015. Scale bar 5 mm. 2 - Male genitalia with phallus (bottom), the median surface of the valvae is shown. Rupite, 13.vi.2014. Scale bar 250 μm.
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<emphasis id="B975E261FFCB134CC83375F9FE50B1A5" bold="true" box="[285,420,1747,1772]" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Genitalia.</emphasis>
The male genitalia of a Bulgarian specimen are illustrated on (
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: 2). The structure of the everted vesica was previously unknown (
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). It is more or less subspherical, with two larger diverticula on the left side and a small one on the right side near the emergence of the dutus ejaculatorius. The posterior surface is densely covered with large acanthae. Small sparse acanthae are present on the left side, where the phallic tube projects on the vesica forming a sclerotised plate with several spines.
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<emphasis id="B975E261FFC8134FC9937018FEEDB402" bold="true" box="[189,281,818,843]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 2.</emphasis>
Phallus of
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with vesica everted, left lateral view. Specimen from Fig. 1. Scale bar 250 μm.
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<emphasis id="B975E261FFC8134FC82875A7FEAAB1EF" bold="true" box="[262,350,1677,1702]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 3.</emphasis>
Distribution of
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in Bulgaria (black circles), UTM grid 10x10 km.
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The early stages and the host-plant are unknown. The moth is apparently associated with wet habitats, including riverbanks (specimens from Rupite) and irrigation canals (specimen from Kamenitsa), which coincides with earlier observations (
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). The Bulgarian specimens were all collected by artificial light. The known distribution of the species in
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is shown on
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.
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