Hapsiferona remanei, 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 : 195

Hapsiferona remanei sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Sudan, El Damar , Hudeiba, 12.vi.1962, leg. R. Remane, Staats[samm]l[un]g München;” “Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5556;” “ Holotypus , Hapsiferona remanei sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZSM ; Paratype: 1 , “[ Sudan] Hudeiba , 21.iii.1962, Lighttrap;” “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 2483;” SDEI .

Derivatio nominis: Named after the collector, R. Remane.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 4): Wingspan 16 mm; head brush yellowish creamy; antennae a little longer than forewings, scapus white, with pecten, flagellum creamy; labial palpi pale creamy, scales subapically dark brown, second segment with long scales, third segment short, thin; thorax in the first quarter light brown, other parts creamy, tegulae brown, apically paler; forewing creamy, mixed with light and dark brown, without distinct pattern. Dark brown are a strip along base of fringe to apex with an oblique prolongation to a patch below costa at 3/4, an indistinct marking at 1/2 on cell and on base; hindwings shiny.

Male genitalia ( Figs 30-32 ): Uncus with two rounded lobi, gnathos arms angled, basal half broader than apical half, tip rounded to pointed, area from uncus to the gnathos arms overlaid with a net of minute sclerotisations; saccus basally broad, narrower to blunt tip, as long as one gnathos arm; valvae as long as uncus-tegumen, basally broad, narrower to rounded apex, phallus as long as valva, more or less parallel-sided.

Female genitalia: unknown.

Remarks: Superficially distinguishable by the checkered pattern of forewings. In male, genitalia characterised by having short saccus.

Figures

Figs 25-32. 25-26: Hapsifera gozmanyi,  (25 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 26 - valva and phallus); 27-29: Hapsiferona jemenitica,  (27 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 28 - valva; 29 - phallus); 30-32: Hapsiferona remanei,  (30 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 31 - valva; 32 - phallus).