Infurcitinea marcunella (REBEL, 1901)

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 : 493-494

Infurcitinea marcunella (REBEL, 1901)

Mauretania: 1 ♂, Mauretania, 1887, leg. STAUDINGER; ISZP: New record for the country .

Infurcitinea italicoides sp. n.

Material:

Holotype ♂ “ Marokko, Imili Strassenrand [roadside], 31°09'45" – 07°55'49", Lichtfang [lux] 19.05.2005, leg. ANDREAS WERNO”; “Gen. präp. [genitalia slide] GAED.[IKE] Nr. 5356”; “ Holotypus ♂ Infurcitinea italicoides sp. n. det. R. GAEDIKE 2008”; Coll. WERNO.

Paratypes: 2 ♂, 1 specimen without abdomen “ Marokko, Westlich Anezi Strassenrand [roadside], 29°40'09" – 09°27'32", Lichtfang [lux], 17.05.2005, leg. ANDREAS WERNO (one specimen with genitalia slide Nr. 5345); “ Paratypus ♂ Infurcitinea italicoides sp. n. det. R. GAEDIKE 2008"; Coll. WERNO; DEI ; 2 ♂ “ Marokko, Arbaa Sahel , 29°36'46" – 09°54'20", Lichtfang [lux], 14.05.2005, leg. ANDREAS WERNO (one specimen with genitalia slide Nr. 6185)”; “ Paratypus ♂ Infurcitinea italicoides sp. n. det. R. GAEDIKE 2008”; Coll. WERNO; DEI .

Description ( Fig. 2 ):

Wingspan 8 mm; Head brush cream-coloured, from neck to basis of antennae dark brown, clearly separated from the cream-coloured region; antennae dark brown on the dorsal site, ventrally cream-coloured; labial palpi outside brown, inside cream-coloured; thorax cream-coloured, tegulae brown; fore- and middlelegs outside brown with cream-coloured rings on apical ends of segments, inside unicolorous cream-coloured, hindlegs cream-coloured, without brown; forewing cream-coloured, with brown pattern: brown are the basal area, two stripes at 1/2 and 2/3, and a patch before apex; fringe cream-coloured; hindwing light cream-coloured.

Male genitalia (Figs 15-16). Uncus rounded, tegumen narrow, vinculum broad, apically bent into two rounded tips, basally with two short rounded processi; valva with long transtilla and broad basal part, costal part broad apically somewhat enlarged, with blunt tip, ventral part folded, with a rounded cloth-shaped appendix; anellus with two very long arms, basally narrow, distally somewhat broader, from second half of length with numerous pointed bristles, closely connected with phallus.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Life history: Unknown.

Etymology: The name refers to the similarity in the shape of genitalia with Infurcitinea italica (AMSEL, 1954) .

Remarks:

The new species belongs to group of species with anellus with two long bristled arms ( media (WALSINGHAM, 1907) , italica (AMSEL, 1954) , cyprica PETERSEN & GAEDIKE, 1985 ). The shape of valva is quite different in media and cyprica , valva of italica differs by having an apically narrower costal arm, additionally the arms of anellus are bifurcate.

Figures

Fig. 2: Infurcitinea italicoides sp. n.