Pachyarthra africana, 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 : 196

Pachyarthra africana sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Sudan, Sinkat , 29.x.1962, [leg.] S. Panelius;” “Gen.präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 5984;” “ Holotypus , Pachayrthra africana sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” FMNH.

Derivatio nominis: Named after the continent where the holotype was collected.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 8 ): Wingspan 12 mm; head brush pale creamy; antennae thick, grey-brown, scapus with same coloration as head brush; labial palpi short, inside pale creamy, outside grey-brown; thorax and tegulae grey-brown; forewings nearly completely covered by grey-brown scales, only a stripe from base below cell to 2/3 yellowish brown, ending in a pale creamy dot at beginning of fringe; some light brown scales on the area before apex; hindwings dark grey.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 39 ): Uncus with two thin lobi (one of them destroyed), gnathos arms narrow, with rounded tip; tegumen band-shaped, vinculum broad, without saccus; valvae broad, first half parallel-sided, then abruptly narrower to pointed apex; inside the valvae an oblique edge from 1/2 of ventral edge to a rounded flap; basal edge more strongly sclerotised, apical half with bristled costal and ventral edge, phallus pistol-shaped, basal half with sclerotised edges, apical half deeply incised.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: The new species is the first member of this genus in the Afrotropical Region. The distribution area of the genus covers the North African countries, the Near and Middle East, eastwards to Nepal.

Figures

Fig. 8: Pachyarthra africana.

Figs 33-39. 33-35: Psecadioides stuebneri, (33 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 34 - valva, phallus; 35 - other view of phallus); 36-38: Heterostasis hackeri,  (36 - Uncus-tegumen complex; 37 - phallus; 38 - valva); 39: Pachyarthra africana, .