Catoptria korab, Bassi & Huemer, 2025

Bassi, Graziano & Huemer, Peter, 2025, Taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes on the Catoptria coulonellus (Duponchel) species group with description of five new species from Western Balkans (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae), Zootaxa 5719 (3), pp. 301-326 : 316

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD7F316B-87F8-452F-9F97-0B466E6C7AD4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17892129
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D87EB-FF91-F94E-D6CE-975BFC40F806
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Catoptria korab
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Catoptria korab sp. nov.

( Figs 22 View FIGURES 17–22 , 38 View FIGURES 33–40 )

Holotype male: Alban[ien] Exped[ition] 1918, Korab, 23-31.vii, GS 6945 GB, deposited in SNSB.

Paratypes: 1 male, Alban. Exped. 1918, Korab, 23-31.vii, GS 1651 SB, Catoptria kasyi Paratypoid , det. Błeszyński 1960, NHM Wien GS MV 9019 b, NHMW; 2 males, Mavrovo N.P., Korab , Korabska jezero, Kobilino pole, 2080 m, 28.vii.2011, Huemer & Tarmann legunt, TLMF; 41°46’42 N, 20°34’55 E GoogleMaps , 2 males, Nord Macedonia, Korab, Kobilino pole, 1750 m, 26-27.vii.2019, I. Richter legit, GS 7418 GB, RCGB and RCIR .

Etymology: The new species derives its name from that of the type locality and is considered as noun in apposition.

Diagnosis: The habitus of C. korab sp. nov. ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 17–22 ) is paler than that of C. sarplanina sp. nov. ( Figs 19, 20 View FIGURES 17–22 ), but darker than that of C. kasyi ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 17–22 ), see diagnosis under C. kasyi . The male genitalia ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 33–40 ) differ from those of C. kasyi ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 33–40 ), C. plat sp. nov. ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 33–40 ) and C. sarplanina sp. nov. ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 33–40 ) in the pars basalis basally with a straight edge rounded apically; medially, the arm is the narrowest among similar species, with a width/length ratio of 0.17; its concavity is more evident than in C. kasyi sp. nov. and C. plat sp. nov., but less evident than in C. sarplanina sp. nov. and apically it is slender and few bulged.

Description: Male: Wingspan 30–32 mm. Labial palpi 4.5 X longer than widest diameter of eye, with inner and upper side yellow and outer side brown sprinkled with yellow. Maxillary palpi brown sprinkled with yellow with apex yellow. Antennae thickened, dark brown with orange yellow costa. Frons subconical, yellow suffused with off-white. Ocelli and chaetosemata poorly developed. Head yellow suffused with off-white. Patagia and tegulae yellow sprinkled with off-white. Thorax white with yellow brown edge. Wings with pattern and colours as illustrated ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 17–22 ). Underside of forewing bright bronze brown distally suffused with white and with narrow yellow edge. Underside of hindwing off-white slightly suffused with brown. Legs yellow with paler inner side, outer spur half as long as inner spur Fore and midleg bronze brown with outer side intense yellow; hind leg yellow with outer spur two thirds as long as inner spur.

Male genitalia: ( Fig. 38 View FIGURES 33–40 ) Uncus slightly shorter than gnathos, pointed and down curved apically. Gnathos apically subtriangular. Tegumen subtriangular, with arms slender and basally rounded. Vinculum stout, 0.85 as long as valva. Pseudosaccus subtriangular. Juxta membranous. Valva subrectangular, narrowing distally, with rounded cucullus; pars basalis basally 0.5 as long as valva, medially slender and concave, and enlarging apically in a rounded tip. Phallus as long as valva, subcylindrical, with vesica with about 30 short cornuti.

Female unknown.

Distribution: Korab mountain between Albania and North Macedonia.