Ochromolopis xeropa (MEYRICK, 1909)

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2020, New taxa and new records of Afrotropical Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera) with a distributional checklist, Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2), pp. 359-364 : 361

Ochromolopis xeropa (MEYRICK, 1909)

RSA: 1, West Cape, N Montagu, Burger Pass , 27.xi.2013, leg. W. Mey; ZMHB ; 1 , West Cape, Villiersdorp, Wolf- Kloof , 26.ii.2014, leg. W. Mey: ZMHB .

The studied material contains the first known male specimen, which allows description of the genitalia structure ( Figs 11–13 ):

Uncus long, straight, at 1/3 from base laterally each with small bristled area, tip rounded, with dentate edge, tegumen with more strongly sclerotized edges; valva as long as uncus and tegumen, from broad base narrowing to rounded tip, longitudinally folded, basal end of costal edge more strongly sclerotized, costal arm basally with upwardly directed rounded tip, apex dorsally enlarged and rounded, ventrally prolonged to a pointed tip; phallus nearly as long as valva, vesica with a large area with dense thin thorns, subapically a smaller area with some isolated larger and smaller thorns, in the apical half a narrow rod-shaped sclerotizaion.

Figures

Figs 3–14: Epermenia minuta (female: 3 – segment VIII, 4 – signum); Epermenia larseni (male: 5 – uncus-tegumen, 6 – valva, 7 – phallus); Epermenia albofasciata (male: 8 – uncus-tegumen, 9 – valva, 10 – phallus); Ochromolopis xeropa (male: 11 – uncustegumen, 12 – valva, 13 – phallus); Ochromolopis namibica (female: 14 – segment VIII).