Bactrianoscythris drepanella
- Dataset
- Eastern Palaearctic Scythrididae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea): description of a new genus and some new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- D’Entrèves, Pietro Passerin, Roggero, Angela (2009): Eastern Palaearctic Scythrididae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea): description of a new genus and some new species. Zootaxa 2263: 1-20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190774
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Scythrididae
- genus
- Bactrianoscythris
- species
- Bactrianoscythris drepanella
description
Description. Wingspan 16 mm. Forewing variegated very pale grayish-brown, with irregular paler line in middle; fringe pale brown. Hindwing whitish very pale brown, glossy, fringe tawny. Head, thorax and abdomen pale brown. Legs and antennae brownish-grey. Male genitalia. Uncus short, rectangular, anterior margin rounded. Gnathos asymmetrical, proximal part laminar, distal arm finger-like, apex rounded. Tegumen triangular. Phallus twice as long as tegumen, cylindrical, apex forked. Juxta almost as long as uncus, base narrow, apex broadened. Valvae two-thirds length of phallus, inwardly curved, apices asymmetrical, base quandrangular. Vinculum half as long as valvae, margin rounded. S 8 triangular, apex bifid, with the points divergent and inwardly curved, and a deep, triangular notch at proximal margin. T 8 unmodified, membranous. Variation. At present the species is known only from the male holotype. Etymology. The species was named after the Greek word drepáne (= sickle), in reference to the shape of the valvae.
diagnosis
Diagnosis. The species can be easily identified (Table 2) on the basis of the genitalic features, mainly the inwardly arched valvae, with a narrowed apex, and the very short bifid projections of S 8.
discussion
Remarks. The Kabul Gorge (or Tang-I-Gharoo) is located about 25 km from Kabul, on the road to Jalalabad and Peshawar.
materials_examined
Type material. Holotype 3 (SMNK), “ O. Afghanistan, Kabulschlucht, 22 km östl. Kabul, 1650 m, 5 – 12. vi. 1966, H. G. Amsel leg. ” [genital slide 9436 PdE].
Name
- Homonyms
- Bactrianoscythris drepanella