Adaina nina Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022

Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasyly, Pototski, Aleksander & Haverinen, Risto, 2022, New species of plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Argentina, Ecologica Montenegrina 58, pp. 29-41 : 35-38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2022.58.3
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2163A2E6-F824-448C-BBBB-746BE2E99DC8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8029666
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC245E9D-7264-4FF9-9D79-6D34B5CA51BF
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:BC245E9D-7264-4FF9-9D79-6D34B5CA51BF
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Adaina nina Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Adaina nina Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich View in CoL sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype, ♂ ( IZBE, gen.pr. № 221005), ARGENTINA, Andes Mts. , Siera de Famatina, Famatina vill., 15 km NNW, 27.i.2017, 28°46'S, 67°35'W, 2085 m, K. Nupponen, R. Haverinen & A. Pototski leg. GoogleMaps ; Paratype, 1 ♂, ( CUK), same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Description: External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae light-yellow. Labial palpi white, thin, straight. Antennae light-brown. Wingspan 12-13 mm (in holotype - 12.5 mm). Fore wings ocher-yellow, with sputtering of small brown scales. Small brown spot at cleft base. Three short longitudinal brown strokes on first lobe, along costal margin and apically. Brown stroke on inner margin of first lobe distally. Two short brown strokes on outer margin of second lobe distally. Fringe inside cleft yellowish-brown. Hind wings unicolorous, light-yellow. Hind legs pale-yellow.

Male genitalia. Valves asymmetric, left significantly wider than right. Saccular process on left valve narrow, wavy, apically curved as ring. Sacculus on right valve with two small spikes. Anellus arms asymmetric, right arm slightly longer and wider than left. Saccus arched. Uncus narrow, thin, slightly curved. Aedeagus almost straight, twice shorter than right valve in length, with angle-like cornutus distally.

Diagnosis. In the male genitalia, in the shape of the sacculus on the right valve, the cornutus in the aedeagus and the anellus arms, the new species is similar to Adaina invida ( Meyrick, 1908) and Adaina jobimi Vargas, 2020 , but differs in both species in the s accular process on the left valve, which is ring-likely curved distally.

Flight period. January.

Distribution. Argentina.

Etymology. The new species is named after the school teacher of Biology of the first author, Nina Vasilyevna Solnyshkova (Novosibirsk, Russia), whose wonderful lessons and professionalism were the example for the first author of this article.