Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot, 1887

Alipanah, Helen & Slamka, František, 2021, On the genus Elegia Ragonot, 1887 (Pyralidae: Phycitinae: Phycitini) from Iran with description of Elegia kharazii sp. nov., Zootaxa 4999 (3), pp. 285-297 : 287

Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot, 1887

Material examined. 1 ♂, 5 ♀♀: East Âzarbâijân Prov .: • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Kaleybar, Âinâlou, Alhord , Arasbârân forest , N 38˚55΄1.1˝, E 46˚47΄38˝, 1440 m, 28.vii.2007, Zahiri, Falsafi, Âlipanâh leg. (gen. prep. HA-2586, HMIM) ; • 2 ♀♀, Kaleybar, Tâtâr , Gharghâvol Res. St., N 38˚21´53.9˝, E 47˚51´43.4˝, 345 m, 27.vii.2007, Âlipanâh, Zahiri, Falsafi leg. (gen. prep. HA-2597, HMIM) ; • 1 ♀, Arasbârân protected area, between Tâzehkand and Vinâgh, N 38˚59´56.6˝, E 46˚57´45.4˝, 1194 m, 23.vi.2015, Nâserzâdeh, Hâjiesmailiân, Montreuil leg.; Mâzandarân Prov. : • 1 ♀, Râmsar , 6 km Javâherdeh vill., N 36˚54´29.3˝, E 50˚35´13.2˝, 554 m, 23.vii.2007, Âlipanâh, Zahiri leg. (gen. prep. HA-2631, HMIM) .

Diagnosis. Forewing ( Fig. 1A ) 7.6–8.1 mm. (x = 7.8 mm ± 0.19 mm, n = 5), relatively elongate, with slightly arched costa and oblique termen. Upperside with brownish-grey ground colour, a well-developed dark ante-median band rather straight distally and almost indistinct at proximal side, lined with whitish-grey strip at distal end ( Slamka 2019), a broken light grey post-median line with a greyish-brown shadow at the proximal side, a pair of hardly visible, dark discal spots. Fringes chequered with dirty-cream and brown scales; underside slightly paler than the upperside, with traces of ante-median band and post-median line. Hindwing upperside pale greyish-brown, veins visible. Fringes dirty-cream, with rows of darker short scales basally; underside nearly the same as the upperside.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 1E‒G ) with a clearly long and slightly truncated uncus, faintly broadened basally with a constriction at the junction with tegumen; tegumen short, about half length of the uncus, gnathos straight, well sclerotized, terminally hooked, slightly longer than about half the length of the uncus; labides moderate, margins subparallel, spines ordered internally, with a pair of long symmetrical spines medio-laterally ( Fig. 1F ); valva elongate, nearly parallel sided, with a strongly sclerotized large clasper having tuberculate edge; juxta almost trapezoidal, nearly straight posteriorly; aedeagus slightly broadened near the apex, with a relatively short and narrow dentate sclerotized plate and few scattered spines anteriorly, length of the sclerotized plate nearly 0.20 of the length of aedeagus ( Fig. 1G )

Culcita with median process apically rounded and broadened towards the base, four wavy elements on each side, anterior edge with a pointed sclerotized projection medially ( Fig. 1H ).

Female genitalia ( Figs. 1B–D ) with papillae anales triangular, setose; apophyses posteriores longer and narrower than apophyses anteriores, its length more than two times the length of apophyses anteriores; lamina antevaginalis sclerotized, broad bilobed plates sparsely covered by fine spines ( Fig. 1 B-a), lamina postvaginalis with a deep, flat-bottomed, U-shaped notch at the apex ( Fig. 1C ); antrum sclerotized, with a pair of symmetrical rounded spinose protuberances; ductus bursa sclerotized, shorter than corpus bursae, slightly broadened towards the antrum, with sclerotized longitudinal mid-ventral folds; corpus bursae nearly oval, with spinulate surface, except the posterior end at right side, medial spinules conspicuously larger than the others, posterior end of corpus bursae next to the junction with ductus bursa with a slightly sclerotized spiny shield; ductus seminalis arises on a small vesicle at the anterior right part of the corpus bursae in ventral view; posterior edge of abdominal segment VIII membranous and weakly depressed medially, its anterior edge with a very well defined strongly sclerotized parallelsided protuberance having rounded to irregularly rounded apex, directed towards the ductus bursa ( Fig. 1D ).

Remark. Some large (sclerotized) structures in segment VIII are provisionally accepted here as lamina ante- and postvaginalis sensu Busck in Obenberger (1964: 116, fig. 122). It is not clear what is their function and maybe they are only sclerotized plates of the VIII segment (sternite).

Distribution. Not known precisely owing to confusion with E. fallax ( Slamka 2019) .

Remarks. This species can be found in xerothermic oak forests ( Slamka 2019). It is newly reported for the fauna of Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Elegia atrifasciella Ragonot. A, adult male, upperside (scale bar = 10.0 mm). B‒D, female genitalia: whole geni- talia (B), lamina postvaginalis (C), posterior end of antrum area in dorsal view (D) showing sclerotized structures on VIII segment; B-a. lamina antevaginalis. E‒G, male genitalia: main body (E), labides (F), aedeagus (G), ventral view. H, culcita.