Pirquelia Urra, 2013

Urra, Francisco, Araneda, Sebastián & Moreira, Gilson R. P., 2023, New species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Chile, Zootaxa 5254 (2), pp. 209-230 : 219

Genus Pirquelia Urra, 2013

Pirquelia Urra, 2013: 37 .

Type-species: Pirquelia aragoni Urra, 2013: 39 , figs. 1c, 1d, 2b, 3c, 3d, 4b; by original designation and monotypy.

Urra (2013a) described the monotypic genus Pirquelia based on the following combination of characters: scape of antenna with a pecten; labial palpus recurved, second segment not reaching base of antenna; FW with apex not falcate, vein R 4+5 stalked, R 5 to termen, CuP present, 1A+2A furcate; HW with veins M 3 and CuA 1 short-stalked; hindtibia with raised piliform scales; terga with spiniform setae arranged in two rows of patches, second abdominal sternum with apodemes and venulae; uncus subtriangular and gnathos subsquare, valva with cucullus sclerotized; juxta without lateral lobes; vesica without cornutus; antrum sclerotized and corpus bursae with signum. Other characters shared with the type species Pirquelia aragoni are: yellow coloration of the wings; in male valva longer than wide, sclerotized process of cucullus, tegumen with strong anterior emargination; in the female, a sclerotized plate posterior to the ostium bursae. For these reasons we include the new species in this genus.