Psecadioides stuebneri, Gaedike, 2014

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2014, On the Tineidae of the Southern Arabian Peninsula and Sudan (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (2), pp. 193-219 : 206

Psecadioides stuebneri sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Oman mer. Prov. Dhofar, 8 km W Al Mghsayl , 80-100 m, N 16°51'99,3", E 53°42'91,1", LF [lux] 23.-24.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann, Bittner & Stadie;” “ Holotypus , Psecadioides stuebneri sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2014;” SDEI ; Paratypes: 11 , same location, same dates, three specimens with genitalia slide (R. Gaedike Nr. 7923, 7953, 7954); SDEI; coll. Stübner.

Derivatio nominis: Named after Andreas Stübner, who enabled me to study the Oman tineids.

Diagnosis ( Figs 5-6 ): Wingspan 20-27 mm; head white, scales below antennae obliquely erect, the others directed to palpi; antennae white, scape with long white pecten, flagellomeres on upper side white, the opposite side dark grey, bipectinate, pectinations elongate and ciliate ( Fig. 6); labial palpi on inside white, on outside grey; thorax and tegulae pale grey, tips of thorax and tegulae white; forewings pale grey with a pattern of white stripes. One straight stripe from base below costa to 1/3, a curved stripe below costa from 2/3 to apex, a stripe on base of fringe and an upwardly curved stripe from base at dorsum to beginning of fringe; hindwings grey. Some specimens with ground colour on forewings a darker grey.

Male genitalia ( Figs 33-35 ): Uncus large, apically rounded, with minute tip; tegumen broad, vinculum with short pointed saccus; gnathos arms long, apically rounded and fused; valva spatulate, ventral edge at first half straight, second half convexe to rounded apex, costal edge concave; apodeme strongly sclerotised, the sclerotisation prolonged rod-shaped inside the valva; phallus shorter than valva, slightly curved, apically incised, one side pointed, other side more or less rounded, with some minute teeth.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: Superficially characterised by the bipectinate antennae.

Figures

Fig. 5: Psecadioides stuebneri (entire specimen).

Figs 33-39. 33-35: Psecadioides stuebneri, (33 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 34 - valva, phallus; 35 - other view of phallus); 36-38: Heterostasis hackeri,  (36 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 37 - phallus; 38 - valva); 39: Pachyarthra africana, .