Edosa pareffulgens, 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 : 197-198

Edosa pareffulgens sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Yemen, Prov. Sana’a, 60 km SW Makaban, Naqil Manakhah , 1730 m, 21.iv.1998, leg. M. Fibiger et al.;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen Denmark;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6053;” “ Holotypus , Edosa pareffulgens sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZMUC.

Derivatio nominis: Named after the similarity to E. effulgens GOZMANY, 1965 .

Diagnosis ( Fig. 9): Wingspan ca. 12 mm (specimen incompletely spread); head brush light yellow, between antennae darker yellow; antennae pale creamy; labial palpi short, straight, with grey-brown scales; thorax and tegulae dark brown, edge to abdomen clay-coloured, with same colouration as the forewings; forewings without any pattern, the first third of costal edge dark brown; hindwings dark grey.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 40 ): Uncus divided into two lobes, the outer edge strongly sclerotised, apically narrower with bent tip; vinculum broad, ventrally narrower; valvae with bifurcate apodemes, first half nearly square, costal edge curved, ending in a thin finger-like process, ventral edge more or less straight, apically clearly longer than the finger-like costal process; phallus basally broad, fused with vinculum, apically narrower, with strongly sclerotised edges, apex truncated.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: Superficially not distinguishable from the other members of the genus. In male genitalia similar to E. effulgens , but the valvae with curved costal edge and without hook are clearly characteristic for this species.

Figures

Figs 40-45. 40: Edosa pareffulgens, ; 41: Edosa albicapitella, ; 42: Edosa furcata, ; 43-45: Hyperbola lehmanni,  (43 - Uncustegumen-complex and phallus; 44 - valva); 45: .