Oiketicoides villosa ( Brandt, 1938 )

Arnscheid, Wilfried R. & Sobczyk, Thomas, 2023, Taxonomic review of the Oiketicoides species (Lepidoptera: Psychidae: Oiketicinae Acanthopsychini) from Anatolia, the Middle East and Central Asia, Zootaxa 5239 (3), pp. 373-394 : 380

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.3.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7634949

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Oiketicoides villosa ( Brandt, 1938 )
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Oiketicoides villosa ( Brandt, 1938)

( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 3–12. 3 , 36 View FIGURES 33–41. 33 )

Amicta villosa Brandt, 1938: 698 , syntypes unknown. Type locality: Iran, Sine-Sedif .

Material examined: 3 ♁ Iran, Elburs, vic. Shemshak , 12–13.viii.1977, 3000 m, leg. W. Thomas ; 1 ♁ ditto, 10– 11.viii1978; 6 Iran, vic. Kendevan , 14–18.viii.1977, 2500–3000 m, leg. W. Thomas ; 3 ♁ ditto, 8–15.viii.1978, leg. W. Thomas ; 1 ♁ Iran, vic. Ab-Ali , 10.viii.1978, ca. 2500 m, leg. W. Thomas ; 36 ♁ Iran, vic. Dizin , 16.viii.1977, 2400 m, leg. W. Thomas ; 21 ♁ ditto, 9.viii.1978, leg. W. Thomas ; 1 ♁ Iran, Fars, Strasse Ardekan-Talochosroe, Comée , ca. 2600 m, Juli 1937, coll. Brandt ; 2 ♁ Iran, Keredj , 1800 m, 25.viii.1936, leg. Brandt, coll. BytinskiSalz.

Redescription. Head. Frons and vertex long yellowish hairy. Eyes EI 0.56. Antennae of half forewing length with 30-32 pecten. Wings. Covered with short yellowish scales with two dentations and mixed with long hair-like ones. Wingspan 23–25 mm, forewing length 10–11 mm. Forewings stretched, costal margin straight or slightly concave in the basal third. Glossy light yellowish grey, hindwings with the same color. FI 2.2. Forewing venation with 10 veins from dc, r3+r4 and m2+m3 long stalked.

Abdomen only slightly protruding the anal margin of the hindwings.

Male genitalia. GP 4035, 4036, 4037 (fig. 36). Long and slender in general appearance. Tegumen more or less pointed, broadly folded laterally. When closed, valvae protrude the distal end of the tegumen, shorter than in O. schakuhensis . Valvae slender, clasper of the sacculus sclerotized, covered with 5–7 short thorns, slightly longer than in O. schakuhensis . Cucullus very short, directed downwardly. Vinculum variable, very narrow or triangular, the lobes laterally hardly pronounced or distinctly present. Saccus is relatively long, but shorter than in O. schakuhensis . Phallus slightly bent, hammer-shaped, two-lobed distally with a ventral inversion.

Female. Unknown. Larval case. Unknown.

Distribution. Widespread in Iran.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Psychidae

Genus

Oiketicoides

Loc

Oiketicoides villosa ( Brandt, 1938 )

Arnscheid, Wilfried R. & Sobczyk, Thomas 2023
2023
Loc

Amicta villosa

Brandt, W. 1938: 698
1938
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