Gnorimoschema cinerella Li & Bidzilya 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Houhun
name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Gnorimoschema
Gnorimoschema cinerella

description: Gnorimoschema cinerella sp. nov.
Figs 8, 33
Type material. Holotype ♂, CHINA: Nanlaihe (21°26' N, 101°33' E), Bubangzhen, Mengla County, Yunnan Province, 13.vii. 2013, 652 m (Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang & Kaijian Teng) (gen. slide no. L13089) (NKU).
Diagnosis. Externally G. cinerella is defined by dark, greyish-black hindwing. The sacculus that is basally broad, the posterior margin of vinculum strongly projected posteriolaterally, in combination with a narrow phallus and comparatively long saccus extended over the top of pedunculus are characteristic for the male genitalia.
Description. Adult (Fig. 8). Wingspan 12.8 mm. Head, thorax and tegulae covered with grey, brown-tipped scales, labial palpus grey mixed with black, inner and upper surface of segment 2 dirty white, scape black, other antennal segments grey with white basal belts; forewing grey, costal margin black from base to ¾ length, three orange-brown spots in cell, black elongated spot on 2/3 length in cell, folds mixed with black, subcostal veins mottled with light brown, diffuse brown pattern in middle third of dorsum, subapical fascia light grey, apex grey mottled with black and light brown, cilia grey; hindwing and cilia black.
Male genitalia (Fig. 33). Uncus broad, apex triangular, pointed; gnathos short, weakly curved; tegumen moderately broad, anterior margin with deep triangular emargination; valva not reaching top of uncus, gradually curved, constricted in middle, inner margin weakly serrated in distal half, apex rounded; sacculus narrow, strongly inwardly curved, gap to vincular process small, rounded; posterior margin of vinculum with deep, comparatively narrow medial emargination, V-shaped at base then subrectangular, inner margin with short hump in middle, terminated posteromedially into pointed process that joins the tip of sacculus; saccus rectangular on basal half, distal portion weakly narrowed towards rounded apex, slightly extended beyond top of pedunculus; phallus long, caecum weakly inflated, distal portion narrow, straight, apex weakly pointed.
Female genitalia. Unknown.
Biology. Host plant unknown. The holotype was collected in mid June at an elevation of 652 m.
Distribution. China (Yunnan).
Remarks. The rather variable G. herbichii can be separated by the narrower forewing and light grey hindwing. G. herbichii, G. soffneri and G. bodillum (Karsholt & Nielsen, 1974) are most similar in the male genitalia, but can be separated by the sacculus that is of equal width rather than broadened on base, the saccus that is not extended beyond the top of pedunculus and the phallus that is about 1.5–2.0 times rather than in 3 times, narrower than caecum.
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin cinereus, meaning grey, and refers to the colour of the hindwing.
description: Published as part of Li, Houhun & Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., 2017, Review of the genus Gnorimoschema Busck, 1900 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in China, pp. 173-195 in Zootaxa 4365 (2) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1117538