Crypsithyris luteocapitata, 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 luteocapitata sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Staatss [amm]l[un]g München , Sudan, Ed Damer, Hudeiba, 23.v.1962, leg. R. Remane;” “Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 7910;” “ Holotypus , Crypsithyris luteocapitata sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZSM ; Paratypes: 4 , same location, but 28.iv., 1.v.1962; ZSM ; 29.iv.1962, “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5986;” SDEI ; 1 , “Hudeiba, 1.v.1962, lighttrap,” “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 2225;” SDEI .

Derivatio nominis: Name refers to the colouration of head brush.

Diagnosis ( Figs 19-20 ): Wingspan 7-9 mm; head brush yellowish-brown; antennae on underside pale creamy, on upperside grey-brown; labial palpi short, pale yellowish-whitish, second segment bristled; thorax and tegulae brown, apically paler; forewings yellowish-brown, partly overlaid with brown scales, forming a brown pattern of some patches. More or less clearly visible are patches on dorsum at 1/4 and 1/2, at base on costa and at 2/3 below costa; the apical third more completely covered by brown scales; hindwings grey. Some specimens with paler forewings, the brown pattern of patches more clearly visible ( Fig. 20).

Male genitalia ( Figs 62-64 ): Uncus triangular, with pointed tip; gnathos arms ventrally convex, dorsally nearly straight; vinculum narrow, band-shaped, saccus long; valvae as long as uncus-tegumen, slightly curved, apically rounded; phallus longer than valva, nearly straight, thin, vesica with minute sclerotisations.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: Similar to C. trimaculata , described from Afghanistan, but distinguishable superficially from it by a smaller wingspan and by bristled 2nd segment of labial palpi, in the male genitalia phallus is straight and vinculum without additional sclerotisation.

Figures

Fig. 19: Crypsithyris luteocapitata.

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).