Catatinagma Rebel, 1903

Junnilainen, Jari & Nupponen, Kari, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part I: descriptions of seventeen new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Zootaxa 2366, pp. 1-34 : 4

Catatinagma Rebel, 1903 stat. rev.

Coloptilia Fletcher, 1940 , syn. n.

The moths belonging to Catatinagma have a characteristic head with an extended frontal part in the middle of which is a miniature crater-like structure (Figs. 2–3). Other characteristics for the genus are the following: short and almost straight labial palps, and abdominal tergal segment I with a broad, rectangular, strongly sclerotized plate. In the male genitalia, the sacculus is distinctly separated from the valva, the gnathos is reduced, the aedeagus is more or less stout and gradually tapered, and the uncus is membranous. In the female genitalia there is usually a pair of brush-shaped signa in the bursa. On the forewings of the moths there are rather distinct dark spots.

Catatinagma trivittellum Rebel, 1903 comb. rev. and Catatinagma conchylidella (O. Hofmann, 1898) comb. nov. are transferred to Catatinagma , the former from Apatetris Staudinger, 1879 and the latter from the monotypic Coloptilia Fletcher, 1940 . C. trivittellum is the type species of Catatinagma . Another species belonging to Catatinagma is described below. All three of these species share typical head and genitalic characteristics of Catatinagma (see Table 1). The combination Catatinagma trivittellum Rebel, 1903 was already used in Fauna Europaea by Karsholt (2004), which is only available on the internet and thus not valid for nomenclatorial acts (ICZN 1999).