Perrissomastix (Aphrodoxa) flava (PETERSEN, 1960)

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 : 199-200

Perrissomastix (Aphrodoxa) flava (PETERSEN, 1960)

Saudi Arabia: PETERSEN, 1961b (under the name Catabola flava ).

Bahrain Islands: PETERSEN, 1964 (under the name Catabola flava ).

Yemen: 1 , Hawra Wadi Hadramaut, 15°,44'N, 48°,18'E, 12.xi.1996, leg. H. Hacker, ZMHB :

First country record. Hitherto known from the Arabian Peninsula and from Iran.

Perissomastix (Perissomastix) wadimaidaq GAEDIKE, 2009

UAE: GAEDIKE, 2009.

Oman: GAEDIKE, 2009.

New records: 2 , 1  Prov. Batinah, Al-Jabal al Ahdar Mts , Wadi Bani , 430 m, 23°20'0,13"N, 57°29°23,5"E, 19.-20.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., coll. Stübner; SDEI; 32 , Prov. Batinah, Al-Jabal al Ahdar Mts, SE Rustaq, W Awabi, 430 m, 23°20'0,13"N, 57°29°23,5"E, 19.-20.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., coll. Stübner; SDEI; 2 , Prov. Al-Sharqlyah, 36 km SE Sur, 26 m, 9 km S Ras al-Hadd, ca. 2 km inland from turtle Beach, 22°26'19,4"N, 49°48'99,2"E, 28.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., coll. Stübner; 1 , Prov. Dhofar, 8 km W Al-Mughsayl, 80-100 m, 16°51'99,3"N, 53°42'91,1"E, 23.-24.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., SDEI; 1 , Prov. Dhofar, 18 km W Al-Mughsayl, 717 m, 16°50'70,6"N, 53°41'15,6"E, 25.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., coll. Stübner; 1 , Prov. Dhofar, 19 km W Al-Mughsayl, 790 m, 16°50'27,4"N, 53°40'78,5"E, 23.-24.xii.2009, leg. L. Lehmann et al., coll. Stübner.

Yemen: GAEDIKE, 2009.

Hitherto known only from the Arabian Peninsula.

As the series contains a female, it is possible to describe the female genitalia for the first time ( Figs 47-48 ): Anterior apophysae forked, ventral branches bristled, band-shaped connection around ostium, dorsal branches ending in more or less triangular plates, with strongly sclerotised bristles; papillae anales are a plate, basally narrow, ending broader with a finger-like and a rounded process. Possesses the bristled pads at base of papillae which are characteristic for the genus.

Figures

Figs 46-51. 46: Hyperbola sexspinosa, ; 47-48: Perissomastix (Perissomastix) wadimaidaq,  (47 - Papillae anales; 48 - ostium area); 49: Perissomastix (Perissomastix) taeniaecornis, ; 50-51: Perissomastix (Perissomastix) jemenitica,  (50 - Uncus-tegumen-phallus; 51 - valva).