Nemapogon shamica GAEDIKE & KULLBERG, 2016

Gaedike, Reinhard & Kullberg, Jaakko, 2016, A contribution to the Dryadaulidae and Tineidae of Lebanon, with two species new to science (Lepidoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (1), pp. 145-152 : 148-149

Nemapogon shamica GAEDIKE & KULLBERG , spec. nov.

Holotype: ♀, “ 9.–16.v.1963, Libanon, O v. Saida [ Lebanon, E of Saida], [leg.] Kasy & Vartian;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Petersen Nr. 2133;” “ Holotypus ♂, Nemapogon shamica sp. n. det. G. Gaedike, 2014;” NMW.

Paratypes: 5 ♀, with same data as the holotype, but genitalia slides Petersen Nr. 2105; 2126; 2127; genitalia slides Gaedike Nr. 2820; 2821; NMW; SDEI ; 1 ♀, “Libanon, 25 km N von Beirut [ Lebanon, 25 km N of Beirut ], 9.vi.1961, [leg.] Kasy & Vartian;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Petersen Nr. 2135;” NMW ; 1 ♀, “GK.6279, Lebanon, Kesrouan , 1520 m, 34°02'56,69"N, 35°47'17,35"E, 2 km W Ain el Quadah, 29.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 8435;” FMNH ; 1 ♀, “GK.6694, Lebanon, Kesrouan , 950 m, 34°03'57,85"N, 35°45'04,03"E, Jebel Musa, Mar Garyes, 25.v.2012, J. Kullberg & T. Lievonen leg.: FMNH ; 2 ♀, “Zypern [ Cyprus], 4.viii.[19]83, Troodos Gebirge, ndl. Troodos [Troodos mountains, norh of Troodos], 1500 m, [leg.] M. & E. Arenberger;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 2714; 2722;” coll. Arenberger; SDEI; 2 ♀, “Zypern [ Cyprus], 11.viii.[19]83, Troodos Gebirge [Troodos mountains], Tripylos Cedar Valley , 1300 m, [leg.] M. & E. Arenberger;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 2712; 2725;” coll. Arenberger; SDEI; 1 ♀, Zypern, Paphos Umg., [ Cyprus, env. of Paphos] 8.–20.v.[19]93, leg. J. Wimmer;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 4953;” coll. Arenberger ; 1 ♀, “ Cyprus, Troodos mts. , Adeifi above Khandria, 1600 m, 24.vi.1997, leg. M. Fibiger, A. Madsen, D. Nilsson, P. Svendsen;” “Coll. ZMUC;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6543;” ZMUC ; 1 ♀, “ Cyprus, Troodos Mts , Olympus, 1950 m, 23.–29.vi.1997, leg. D. Nilsson, A. Madsen, M. Fibiger, P. Svendsen;” “Coll. ZMUC;” “Gen.präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 6544;” ZMUC .

Description ( fig. 6): Wingspan 12 – 15 mm; head brush pale creamy, laterally and tuft between antennae greybrown; antenna grey-brown, underside lighter; outside of labial palpus dark grey-brown, inside creamy, second segment on upper side with some bristles, apically with four to five bristles; thorax and tegulae brown, only apically pale creamy. The whitish ground colour of forewing nearly completely overlaid with brown scales, forming a pattern, characteristic for the genus: from base at costa oblique to the begin of cell; at 1/2 from costa oblique through cell to dorsum at begin of fringe; a large patch before apex from costa to fringe; some short stripes at costa; a line from apex along fringe to the end of them. Hindwing light grey.

Male genitalia: Unknown.

Female genitalia ( figs 7–7h ): Apophysis anterioris ends in narrow prolonged plate; ostium lip arrowheadshaped, the apical process with variable length, ostium lip basally with a more strongly sclerotized area of different length.

Etymology: The name is derived after the Arab name “ash-Sham” of the Levant, originally meaning the area under the rule of Caliphate and its capital Damascus.

Biology: Larval host unknown. The hitherto known records of many members of the genus show that larvae are fungivorous, therefore it can be presumed that larvae of this species have a similar life history.

Remarks: Not superficially certainly distinguishable from the other members of the genus. The new species is a member of a group of species having an arrowhead- shaped ostium lip with a more or less long terminal process with some long bristles. It is similar to N. sardicus GAEDIKE, 1983 , but the ostium lip is more or less triangular, with a short apical process, and N. signatellus PETERSEN, 1957 , but this species is characterised by having a signum in the corpus bursae.

Figures

Figs 7–7h: Nemapogon shamica spec. nov., ♀ (7 - complete genitalia apparatus,: Cyprus; 7a–7h: variability of the ostium lip: 7a, b, c, e, h: Lebanon; 7d, f, g: Cyprus).