Reisserita luteopterella PETERSEN, 1957

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2009, New or poorly known Tineidae from Mauretania, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (Lepidoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (2), pp. 489-512 : 496

Reisserita luteopterella PETERSEN, 1957

Morocco: 1 ♂, Arbaa Sahel, 29°36'46" 09°54'20" 14. 5. 2005, leg. et Coll. WERNO: First record other than the typical series .

Reisserita karsholti sp. n.

Material:

Holotype, ♂ “ Morocco, 25 km S Essaouira Sidi Kaould , 100 m, 28.iii.2005 O. KARSHOLT”; “Coll. ZMUC Copenhagen Denmark ”; “Gen. präp. [genitalia slide] GAEDIKE NR: 6181"; “ Holotypus ♂ Reisserita karsholti sp. n. det. R. GAEDIKE 2008”; ZMUC.

Description ( Fig. 5 ):

Wingspan 15 mm; head brush clay-coloured, antenna dark grey, labial palp light clay-coloured, second segment with numerous long dark brown bristles; thorax and forewing clay-coloured, without any pattern; hindwing grey.

Male genitalia (Figs 28-31). Uncus broad at basis, proximally with V-shaped incision, two pointed tips; gnathos arms strong, with clearly developed knee-shaped processus ventrally, dorsally at 1/3 bent, with pointed tip; tegumen broad, edged; vinculum large, triangular, on each side at 1/2 with a small hook-shaped processus (insertion of transtilla); valva nearly parallel, dorsal edge straight, ventral edge at 1/2 convex, with rounded tip, transtilla nearly as long as valva; phallus longer than uncus+tegumen, thin, with two small cornuti.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Life history: Unknown.

Etymology: Named in honour to the collector, OLE KARSHOLT.

Remarks:

The new species is superficially similar to zernyi PETERSEN, 1957 , but the shape of genitalia is clearly different (incision on uncus V-shaped, shape of gnathos arms, shape of valva and the long transtilla, and the hook-shaped processi on vinculum).

Figures

Fig. 5: Reisserita karsholti sp. n.