Amicta davarica Solyanikov (2002)

Arnscheid, Wilfried R., Rajaei, Hossein & Sobczyk, Thomas, 2021, A taxonomic review of the genus Amicta Heylaerts, 1881 in North Africa, Near and Middle East (Lepidoptera, Psychidae, Oiketicinae, Acanthopsychini), Zootaxa 5071 (3), pp. 349-368 : 365

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:74E07AE5-68E0-42D9-8F53-C0776EBACC2C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5723502

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A04687E4-FF87-FFE0-0396-FE29FF65FA86

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Amicta davarica Solyanikov (2002)
status

comb. nov.

Amicta davarica Solyanikov (2002) View in CoL comb. nov.

Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 17-A View FIGURES 2–18 , 30

Hyalopteronia davarica Solyanikov, 2002: 745 View in CoL , figs 1, 2. Type loc.: Iran, Hormozgan prov., Beshagerd Mts.   GoogleMaps Davari vil., 26°27’ N 57°38’E, 06.- 11.04.2000, leg. V. Siniaev & A. Plutenko (holotype in ZMUM).

Material examined. 3 ♂, S Iran, Sistan-o-Belujistan [Balichistan] prov., Takhte Malek vic., 750 m, 20.–21.iii.2013, leg, O. Legezin. ( CTS) ( GU 120-2021 Sobczyk) .

Diagnosis. Male wingspan 22–22,5mm, forewing length 11.5–12.1 mm, width 4.9–5.3 mm, FI 2.3 mm Forewings stretched, slender, costal margin nearly straight, apex slightly pointed, termen oblique. All wings translucent, extremely sparsely covered with scales. A little more along the veins. Veins whitish, anterior and posterior margin densely covered with blackish-brown scales (class 1 after Sauter & Hättenschwiler 1999), more densely scaled along the costal margin. Fringes lighter grey, long, with 3–5 dentations. Thorax and abdomen densely covered with long blackish hair-like scales. Only femur and tibia ventrally paler greyish. EI 0.74 (original description 0.8). Antennae length 5.8–6.3 mm, 45–49 segments without pedicellus and scapus. Pecten long, 0.9 mm. The longest pecten of 7 time of segment diameter.

Male genitalia (GU 120-2021 Sobczyk). Oblong triangular, 2.9 mm length, 1.05 mm wide at the valvae base. Tegumen broad, indented distally, with several short setae. The valvae protrude beyond the posterior margin of the tegumen, apically rounded and covered with short setae. Sacculus straight but curved inwardly at the base, distally with four inwardly curved thorns. Anellus rounded, with scattered single setae. Vinculum elongated, almost rectangular. Saccus elongated, rounded distally. Phallus 3.5 mm, longer as entire genital length, tubular, somewhat broader basally and distally, evenly curved. Vesica about 2/3 length of the phallus densely covered with short pointed cornuti.

Larval case. Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from southern to south-eastern Iran, along the coasts of Persian Gulf and Oman Sea.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Psychidae

Genus

Amicta

Loc

Amicta davarica Solyanikov (2002)

Arnscheid, Wilfried R., Rajaei, Hossein & Sobczyk, Thomas 2021
2021
Loc

Hyalopteronia davarica

Solyanikov, V. P. 2002: 745
2002
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