Edosa furcata, 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 : 198

Edosa furcata sp. n.

Holotype: , “ Yemen, Prov. Al Hudaydah, Jabel Burra , 25 km SE Bajil, 600 m, 23.-24.iv.1998, leg. M. Fibiger et al.;” “Coll. ZMUC, Copenhagen Denmark;” “Gen. präp.[genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6049;” “ Holotypus , Edosa furcata sp. n., det. R. Gaedike 2013;” ZMUC ; Paratype: 1 , “ Sudan, Ed Damar , Hudeiba, 20.vi.1962, leg. R. Remane, Staatss[amm]l[un]g München;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr 5992;” ZSM .

Derivatio nominis: Named after the shape of uncus.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 11): Wingspan 10 mm; head brush lemon-yellow; antennae nearly white; labial palpi short, brown; thorax and tegulae and forewings brown; forewings without any pattern, apical half of fringe dark brown; hindwings dark grey.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 42 ): Uncus bifurcate, with pointed tips; tegumen and vinculum broad band-shaped, distal edge of vinculum more strongly sclerotised; valvae lanceolate, basally with narrow apodeme and short square process, broadest at first third, costal edge straight, ventral edge becoming narrower to rounded apex; inside, in the first third, from base between apodeme and process, a thin rod-shaped sclerotisation; phallus connected with tegumen, hook-shaped, basally and laterally with strong sclerotised edges.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: In male genitalia there are similarities to the species of the species group “ paraxena ” of GOZMÁNY & VÁRI (1973), but the shape of valvae and the straight rod-shaped sclerotisation inside is different. The lemonyellow head brush is an additional characteristic.

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: .