identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
C2DFFBFBC7CB56DEA226F9E8D61FF474.text	C2DFFBFBC7CB56DEA226F9E8D61FF474.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Agriphila hispanodeliella Bleszynski 1959	<div><p>Agriphila hispanodeliella Błeszyński, 1959, bona sp. stat. rev.</p><p>Agriphila hispanodeliella Błeszyński, 1959, Acta zool. cracov. 4: 148, Pl. 13, fig. 3, Pl. 14, fig. 7 (TL: Spain, Albarracín).</p><p>Agriphila deliella hispanodeliella Błeszyński, 1959, Microlepidoptera Palaearctica, Crambinae 1 (1): 233, (2): Pl. 13, fig. 145, Pl. 55, fig. 145.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Agriphila hispanodeliella is similar in appearance to A. deliella and was previously considered to be its subspecies. According to previous authors (Błeszyński 1959, 1965; Slamka 2008; Leraut 2012), A. hispanodeliella differs from A. deliella in several characters: a larger wingspan ( A. deliella: 27 mm), forewings with a darker ground color and more distinct markings, unicolorous antennae, and more prominent frons. Regarding the male genitalia, A. hispanodeliella is characterised by a narrower valva apically, while in A. deliella the valva is clearly rounded. The costal arm of A. hispanodeliella is not clearly separated from the valva and projects slightly, while in A. deliella is well developed and clearly separated. In addition, the uncus and gnathos are slender in A. hispanodeliella, while in A. deliella they are broader. The aedeagus is also narrower in A. hispanodeliella and is relatively larger in A. deliella . In conclusion, our study shows that A. hispanodeliella can be distinguished from A. deliella based on differences in wingspan, forewing pattern, and the morphology of the genitalia.</p><p>The COI sequences of the sampled specimens had 658 nucleotide bp and indicate significant divergence with mean distances to A. deliella of 3.5 % (Table 1). Mean divergence with the other congeneric sequences was 8.33 % with maximum distance to the three different BINS of A. tristella (9.2 %) and minimum distance to A. selasella (6.8 %) (Table 1).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Male (Fig. 1 A). Wingspan 28–33 mm. Frons porrect with distinct pointed apex. Head, frons, patagium, tegula, thorax and abdomen covered with pale yellow scales. Labial palpi porrect, about 4 × the eye, pale yellow on outer side, brown on inner side. Maxillary palpi pencil-like, pale yellow. Antennae of male short pectinate, weakly ringed in brown and greyish white. Forewings beige to creamy, with a distinct longitudinal white stripe from base to termen, which is edged with a short and narrow brown line on the lower side and a broad and long dark brown stripe on the upper side; above this last stripe, two short parallel white lines, also edged with brown, the one closest to the costa more faintly marked; along de dorsum, a broad brown band crossed by a short whitish line and bordered on its upper side by another, barely perceptible whitish line. Marginal dark dots. Fringes pale beige. Hindwings uniform pale beige. Fringes white.</p><p>Variation.</p><p>Most specimens show a ground color and wing markings that enhance contrast in the forewing, but some specimens with almost uniformly pale beige forewing and few markings (Fig. 1 B).</p><p>Male genitalia</p><p>(Fig. 2 A). Uncus slender, narrowing to hooked apex. Gnathos slightly longer than uncus, distally round. Valva broad and long, with ventral margin somewhat angled medially, tapering to a relatively pointed apex. Costal arms are weakly developed, scarcely visible. Aedeagus straight, with parallel lateral margins and a distinct ventral thorn. Cornuti absent (Fig. 2 B).</p><p>Female genitalia.</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>Bionomics.</p><p>The studied specimens inhabit open areas above 1,900 m within the supra- and oromediterranean belts of the Sierra Nevada Natural Area. These habitats are rich in grasses, included Corynephorus canescens (L.) P. Beauv. (Lorite 2016), which is presumed to serve as larval host plant.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Endemic to Spain. Actually, only known in some localities in the centre and south-east of the Iberian Peninsula.</p><p>Genetic remarks.</p><p>BIN BOLD: AGX 2565 (n = 4; sequence length 658 bp). Based on COI divergence, A. hispanodeliella is separated from the related species Agriphila deliella (BOLD: AAP 8280; n = 9) by mean pairwise divergence in COI- 5 P of 3.50 % (Table 1, Fig. 3).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2DFFBFBC7CB56DEA226F9E8D61FF474	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Girdley, John;Garre, Manuel;Rubio, Rosa María;Ortiz, Antonio S.	Girdley, John, Garre, Manuel, Rubio, Rosa María, Ortiz, Antonio S. (2026): Redescription and DNA barcoding of Agriphila hispanodeliella Błeszyński, 1959, bona sp., stat. rev. from the Iberian Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambinae). Nota Lepidopterologica 49: 109-116, DOI: 10.3897/nl.49.191476
