Hapsifera gozmanyi, 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 : 194-195

Hapsifera gozmanyi sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Yemen, prov. Sana’a, 15°18'12"N, 44°16'48"E, mountains SW Sana’a, Jabal ‘ Ayban, Bait Na’arna , 18.iv.1998, 2700 m, M. Fibiger leg.;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen Denmark;” “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6011;” “ Holotypus , Hapsifera gozmanyi sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZMUC ; Paratypes: 1 , “ Yemen, 600 m, Prov. Al Hudaydah, Jabel, Burra , 25 km SE Bajil, 23.-24.iv.1998, leg. M. Fibiger et al.;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen Denmark;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6186;” ZMUC; 2 , “[Genitalia slide Derra] 6405; 2nd specimen: 6406;” “ Jemen, 18.iv.1998, 3 I, Prov. Sana’a, 2700-2750 m, Jabal ‘Ayban, Bait Na’arna, leg. Bischof, Bittermann, Fibiger, Hacker, Schreier;” Coll. Derra; SDEI .

Derivatio nominis: Named in honour of L. Gozmány, a specialist on the Afrotropical Tineidae .

Diagnosis ( Figs 1-2 ): Wingspan 13-17 mm; head brush pale creamy, above palpi whitish; labial palpi inside pale creamy, second segment outside partly overlaid with brown scales, third segment thin, tapered; antennae dark creamy, scapus with pecten (antennae of holotype broken, one incomplete antenna glued); thorax and tegulae creamy, overlaid with brown scales, mostly on the first half; forewings creamy, with a pattern of dark brown patches basally, at dorsum at 1/3, at costa on 1/2, below cell at 2/3 and subapically, some smaller patches at costa in the first half and below the patch at dorsum; the creamy scales with minute dark brown tip. Sometimes (fig. 2) the entire forewing overlaid with more brown colouration, the patches at costa and below cell connected; hindwing shiny light grey.

Male genitalia ( Figs 25-26 ): Uncus truncated, with two pointed tips, gnathos arms thin, apically curved, with pointed tip, basally rounded; vinculum band-shaped, saccus visible only as minute tip; valvae as long as uncustegumen complex, parallel-sided, apically rounded; apodemes connected, bridge-shaped; anellus nearly triangular, fused with valvae through narrow bristled process, phallus about 2/3 of the length of valva, subapically with indication of two teeth.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: Superficially similar to H. pachypsaltis GOZMÁNY, 1965 , but clearly smaller. In the male, genitalia differences are the thin gnathos arms, the minute saccus and phallus without clear teeth.

Figures

Fig. 1: Hapsifera gozmanyi (holotype).

Figs 25-32. 25-26: Hapsifera gozmanyi,  (25 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 26 - valva and phallus); 27-29: Hapsiferona jemenitica,  (27 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 28 - valva; 29 - phallus); 30-32: Hapsiferona remanei,  (30 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 31 - valva; 32 - phallus).