On the Tineidae of the Southern Arabian Peninsula and Sudan (Lepidoptera: Tineidae).

Abstract

Twenty species new to science are described and illustrated: Hapsifera gozmanyi, Hapsiferona jemenitica, H. remanei, Psecadioides stuebneri, Heterostasis hackeri, Pachyarthra africana, Edosa pareffulgens, E. albicapitella, E. furcata, Hyperbola lehmanni, H. sexspinosa, Perissomastix (Perissomastix) jemenitica, Trichophaga atripunctella, Proterospastis cornuta, P. spinosa, Crypsithyris luteocapitata, C. unipuncta, Ceratobia sudanica, Amphixystis minuta, A. taurus. The taxon hemiphracta Meyrick, 1926, hitherto regarded as a member of the genus Crypsithyris, is transferred to Ceratobia. New country records are established for ten species from Oman, 19 species from Yemen, and three species from the Sudan. The hitherto unknown females of Perissomastix (Perissomastix) wadimaidaq Gaedike, 2009 and P. (P.) taeniaecornis (Walsingham, 1896) are described. In the studied area 67 species are now known. The tineid fauna of Yemen comprises a mixture of Palaearctic and Afrotropical elements.

Keywords

Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Arabian Peninsula, Sudan, original descriptions, faunistics

Nomenclatural Acts

minuta Gaedike, 2014 (Amphixystis), spec. n.
taurus Gaedike, 2014 (Amphixystis), spec. n.
hemiphracta (Meyrick, 1926) (Ceratobia), comb. n. hitherto Crypsithyris hemiphracta (Meyrick, 1926)
sudanica Gaedike, 2014 (Ceratobia), spec. n.
luteocapitata Gaedike, 2014 (Crypsithyris), spec. n.
unipuncta Gaedike, 2014 (Crypsithyris), spec. n.
albicapitella Gaedike, 2014 (Edosa), spec. n.
furcata Gaedike, 2014 (Edosa), spec. n.
pareffulgens Gaedike, 2014 (Edosa), spec. n.
gozmanyi Gaedike, 2014 (Hapsifera), spec. n.
jemenitica Gaedike, 2014 (Hapsiferona), spec. n.
remanei Gaedike, 2014 (Hapsiferona), spec. n.
hackeri Gaedike, 2014 (Heterostasis), spec. n.
lehmanni Gaedike, 2014 (Hyperbola), spec. n.
sexspinosa Gaedike, 2014 (Hyperbola), spec. n.
africana Gaedike, 2014 (Pachyarthra), spec. n.
jemenitica Gaedike, 2014 (Perissomastix), spec. n.
cornuta Gaedike, 2014 (Proterospastis), spec. n.
spinosa Gaedike, 2014 (Proterospastis), spec. n.
stuebneri Gaedike, 2014 (Psecadioides), spec. n.
atripunctella Gaedike, 2014 (Trichophaga), spec. n.