Platyptilia anjuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022

Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N., Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Plume Moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) of Ethiopia. Part 2., Ecologica Montenegrina 53, pp. 45-55 : 47-48

Platyptilia anjuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich , sp.nov.

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Type material: Holotype, male, ( ZSM gen.pr. № 220501), Ethiopia, Ostafrikanisher Graben Gidole , 10 km O, 2340m, 03°40.603N, 37°20.801E, 20.VII.2015, R. Beck & R. Wanninger, leg.

External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae white. Labial palpi white from upside, brown laterally, 2.5 times longer than longitudinal eye diameter, apically acute. Forehead with small conical bundle of hairs. Antennae thin, brown. Wingspan 29 mm. Medial portion of fore wing with distinct light ray passing from basal area to cleft. Dark-brown narrow transverse stroke before cleft. Costal margin of fore wing brightly brown. First lobe lightened with white elongated stripes as continuation of the medial ray. Dorsal margin of fore wing yellowish-brown. Fringe inside cleft light-yellow. Hind wings light-brown. Fringe on all wings light-yellow.

Male genitalia. Valves symmetric, slightly narrowing apically. Sacculus basally wide, medially and distally narrow. Tegumen bilobed. Uncus basally and medially wide, apically acute. Anellus arms short, of uniform thickness. Saccus with oval outer edge from below and with triangle spiky protrusion on inner edge. Aedeagus short, curved at a right angle, basal process short, straight, directed forwards, twice shorter than coecum in length, cornuti absent.

Diagnosis. In the wings color and in the medial light ray on the fore wing, there are no analogous species in this genus. In the general structure of the genitals, the species is similar to Platyptilia melitroctis Meyrick, 1924 , from which it differs in the strongly curved aedeagus, the basally wide uncus and the sharp spiky protrusion on the inner edge of the saccus.

Flight period. July. Distribution. Ethiopia. Etymology. The species is named after Anna Dulepinskaya (Novosibirsk Region, Russia), the beloved woman of the first author of this article. [Anjuta] – diminutive – affectionate form on behalf of Anna.

Figures

Figure 1. Platyptilia anjuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. Adult (Holotype, ZSM).

Figure 2. Platyptilia anjuta Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. Male genitalia (Holotype, ZSM, gen.pr. № 220501).