Bryophila katiba (Rungs, 1972)

(Figs 4a and 4b; 8d)

Material examined ( but not yet dissected): Holotype male (Fig 4a) and two male paratypes: Maroc, Anti Atlas, Tafraout, 18- VI11-1946, in MNHN. After Rungs (1972): “Wingspan: 25 mm. A female captured with the male, shows the bottom of the wings shrimpy pink and no deep white: leander n.f. «. 1 female (dissected) (Figs 4b and 8d), Morocco, Anti-Atlas Mts, Tizi’n Tarakatine pass, 1600 m, 29°45’11”N, 8°50’02”W, 29-V-2005, leg. Gy. M. László & G. Ronkay (in coll. GR).

Taxonomic notes: The taxonomic status of this taxon remains somehow uncertain, as no type material has yet been dissected, but it differs externally from the other members of the species-group by its smaller size, paler colouration and dark markings (Figs 4a and 4b). The types resemble more B. barbaria than any other taxa, though they are remarkably smaller and paler coloured than specimens of B. barbaria from the higher altitude places of the Moroccan Atlas. Besides, the genitalia of a female collected in the Anti Atlas mountains (Fig 8d) clearly differ from those of B. barbaria (Fig 8c) in the shape of the appendix bursae and in the width of the ductus bursae, much narrower in B. katiba and without the characteristic swelling of B. barbaria .

External and genital diagnosis: see under taxonomic notes.