Crypsithyris unipuncta, Gaedike, 2014

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2014, On the Tineidae of the Southern Arabian Peninsula and Sudan (Lepidoptera: Tineidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 64 (2), pp. 193-219 : 204

Crypsithyris unipuncta sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Staatss [amm]l[un]g München , Sudan, Ed Damer, Hudeiba, 24.v.1962, leg. R. Remane;” “Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 7911;” “ Holotypus , Crypsithyris unipuncta sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZSM ; Paratypes: 6 , 2 , same location, but 5.v.1962 (Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5991) , 8.v.1962, ZSM ;

23., 29., 30.v.1962 (Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike

Nr. 5987, 5989, 5990); SDEI.

Derivatio nominis: Name refers to single dark dot on forewing.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 21 ): Wingspan 5-6 mm; head brush light brown; antennae shiny grey-brown; labial palpi with same colouration, paler inside, second segment with some bristles; thorax and tegulae grey-brown; forewings shiny pale grey-brown, covered with numerous single darker brown scales, forming a dot below costa at end of cell; hindwings grey.

Male genitalia ( Figs 65-66 ): Uncus truncated, gnathos arms basally broad, slightly curved to pointed tip; vinculum band-shaped, laterally each incised, saccus continuously narrowed to rounded tip; valvae lancetshaped, from base to first half of length parallel-sided, then broader to rounded apex, phallus as long as valva, slightly curved, with minute sclerotisations in the vesica.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 64 ): Anterior apophysae unforked, ventrally connected by a band-shaped sclerotisation, covered with many long bristles; ostium slightly funnelshaped, strongly sclerotised, in the ductus bursae a small strongly sclerotised ring.

Remarks: Superficially distinguishable by the very small wingspan and by having only one dot on forewings. In male genitalia characterised by the truncated uncus and vinculum with lateral incisions.

Figures

Fig. 21: Crypsithyris unipuncta.

Figs 59-66. 59-61: Proterospastis spinosa,  (59 - Uncus-tegumen-vinculum, valva; 60 - phallus; 61 - Uncus-tegumen, and vinculum-saccus, ventro-dorsal view); 62-64: Crypsithyris luteocapitata,  (62 - Uncus-tegumen-vinculum; 63 - valva; 64 - phallus); 65-66: Crypsithyris unipuncta,  (65 - Uncus-tegumen, valva; 66 - phallus).