Catoptria domaviellus ( Rebel, 1904 )

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 : 314

Catoptria domaviellus ( Rebel, 1904)

( Figs 14 , 34 , 54 )

Crambus domaviellus ( Rebel, 1904) . Type locality: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prenj Mts. Type material: lectotype male, designated by Błeszyński (1960: 169–170), Herceg., Rebel, Prenj pl[anina], 17.vii.[18]98, GS 9021b Wien (1638 SB). NHMV, examined .

Material examined: Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 female paralectotype, Bjelašnica, Herceg., vii. Rebel, GS 9021a Wien (1637 SB) .

Diagnosis: The habitus of C. domaviellus ( Fig. 14 ) features head, patagia, and tegulae off-white; the forewing is whitish-brown with off-white costa and deep medial brown suffusion, seven small terminal dots, off-white veins, and fringes white and pale brown. In the hindwing, the coloration is off-white suffused with brown from apex to mid-wing, with fringes white. In contrast, the forewing of C. nikai sp. nov. ( Fig. 15 ) has pale yellow ground colour, brown costal line basally, light medial brown suffusion, six terminal dots slightly larger, less clearly marked veins, fringes pale yellow sprinkled with off-white, and hindwing almost hyaline basally, then pale yellow-brown, with fringes with short scales yellow and long scales yellowish-white. Similarly, the forewing of C. richteri sp. nov. ( Fig. 13 ) has pale yellow ground colour, brown costal line along the mid-costa, light medial brown suffusion, larger terminal dots, less clearly marked veins, pale yellow fringes, and yellowish-brown hindwing with pale yellow fringes. Both C. nikai sp. nov. and C. richteri sp. nov. have head, patagia, and tegulae yellow. The female has normally developed wings, in contrast to the reduced wings of C. sarplanina sp. nov. ( Fig. 20 ) and to the strongly reduced wings of C. kasyi Błeszyński ( Fig. 18 ). The male genitalia ( Fig. 34 ) differ from related species in the pars basalis apically folded, with the lower edge slightly produced; the phallus is slender and longer than the valva, and the vesica contains about 13 stout cornuti, as opposed to the pars basalis of C. richteri sp. nov. ( Fig. 36 ), which is large and longer, blunt, apically wrinkled, with lower edge slightly produced, and has a vesica with about 20 slender cornuti, and compared to the pars basalis of C. nikai sp. nov. ( Fig. 35 ), which is longer, with a strongly produced lower edge, a phallus shorter than the valva, and a vesica with about 28 short stout cornuti. In the female genitalia ( Fig. 54 ), the sterigma with lamella postvaginalis slightly concave posteriorly distinguishes C. domaviellus from C. kasyi ( Fig. 55 ), in which the sterigma is strongly produced and bilobed posteriorly, and from C. sarplanina sp. nov. ( Fig. 56 ), in which the sterigma is produced and asymmetrical posteriorly.

Distribution: Balkan Peninsula from Bosnia Herzegovina to Bulgaria ( Błeszyński 1965). From our data it is restricted to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Remarks: The figure of domaviellus in Rebel (1904: Pl. 5, Fig. 20 ) represents a not-traced yellow syntype [ paralectotype] (maybe that of Bielašica), possibly of C. richteri sp. nov. or C. sarplanina sp. nov., different from the lectotype designated by Błeszyński ( Fig. 14 ).

Figures

FIGURES 9–16. Catoptria spp., habitus. 9–10. C. trichostomus (Christoph), male, Russia, “Sarepta” (9); female, Russia, Polar Ural, 9.vii.1977, K. F. Sedych legit (10). 11–12. C. lythargyrella ([Denis & Schiffermüller]), male neotype, Germany, Bavaria, Schwaben, Donau-Ries, Nördinger Ries, 48.8504, 10.4874, 475 m, 02.ix.2016, R. Heindel legit, photo A. Segerer (SNSB) (11); female, Italy, Piedmont, Susa Valley, Giaglione, 630 m., 10.ix.2018, G. Bassi legit (12). 13. C. richteri sp. nov., holotype. 14. C. domaviellus (Rebel), lectotype, photo S. Gaal-Haszler and H. Bruckner (NHMW). 15–16. C. nikai sp. nov., holotype (15); the same, head in lateral view (16).

FIGURES 33–40. Catoptria spp., male genitalia. 33. C. lythargyrella ([Denis & Schiffermüller]), Italy, Piemonte, Val Susa (TO), Giaglione, 700 m, 19.ix.2019, G. Bassi legit, GS 6857 GB. 34. C. domaviellus (Rebel), holotype, photo S. Gaal-Haszler and H. Bruckner (NHMW). 35. C. nikai sp. nov., holotype. 36. C. richteri sp. nov., holotype. 37. Catoptria kasyi Błeszyński, paratype, Macedonia Occ., 22.VII-5.VIII.1959, Peristeri Mons, Golemo Ezero, 2200 m, F. Kasy, GS 5123 GB, SNSB. 38. C. korab sp. nov., paratype, North Macedonia, Korab, Kobilino Pole, 26-27.vii.2019, I. Richter legit, GS 7418 GB. 39. C. sarplanina sp. nov., holotype. 40. C. plat sp. nov., paratype.

FIGURES 53–56. Catoptria spp., female genitalia. 53. C. lythargyrella ([Denis & Schiffermüller]), female, Italy, Piedmont, Susa Valley, Giaglione, 630 m, 21.ix.2019, G. Bassi legit, GS 6993 GB. 54. C. domaviellus (Rebel), lectoparatype (Bleszynski’s designation (1960)), Bjelašnica, Hercegow, vii, Rebel, GS 1637 Bł., photo S. Gaal-Haszler and H. Bruckner (NHMW). 55. C. kasyi Błeszyński, female, North Macedonia, Pelister National Park, Golemo Ezero, 2200 m., 31.vii.2015, I. Richter legit, GS 6982 GB. 56. C. sarplanina sp. nov., paratype, same labels as holotype, GS 6976 GB.

FIGURES 17–22. Catoptria spp., habitus. 17–18. C. kasyi Błeszyński, male, North Macedonia, Pelister National Park, Golemo Ezero, 2200 m., 31.vii.2015, I. Richter legit (17); female, North Macedonia, Pelister National Park, Golemo Ezero, 2200 m., 31.vii.2015, I. Richter legit (18); 19–20. C. sarplanina sp. nov., male holotype (19); female paratype (20); 21. C. plat sp. nov., male holotype. 22. C. korab sp. nov., male paratype, North Macedonia, Korab, Kobilino Pole, 1750 m., 26-27.vii.2019, I. Richter legit.