Canarischema fuerteventura Landry & Nazari & Bidzilya & Huemer & Karsholt 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Landry, Jean-François
name: Nazari, Vazrick
name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Huemer, Peter
name: Karsholt, Ole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Canarischema
Canarischema fuerteventura

description: Canarischema fuerteventura Karsholt, sp. nov.
(Figs. 13–14, 16, 20, 22, 27–28, 36, 42)
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Material examined. Holotype ♂, Spain, “Kanar. Inselen Fuerteventura Bco. [Barranco de] Esquinzo, 15.12.2006 – 14.01.2007, leg. R. Paas ”, “ Gen. praeparat N o 6319 ♂ H. Hendriksen ” (ZMUC).
Paratypes. 3 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, ditto but 3-16.x.2000; 2 ♂, 25.ix. – 19.x.2002; genitalia slide Bidzilya 139/15; 3 ♂, 1 ♀, ditto but 18 – 24.xii.2003, genitalia slide Bidzilya 138/15; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, ditto but 30.ix. – 6.x.2004; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, ditto but 8 – 24.x.2004; 2 ♂, ditto but 15 – 31.x.2005; 1 ♀ ditto but 15.x.–8.xi.2008; 1♂, 20.ii. – 15.iii.2011 (AW, CNC, TLMF, WS, ZMKU, ZMUC).
DNA Barcode BIN. BOLD:ACZ6649 (n=2).
Description (Figs. 13–14). Adult. Male. Wingspan 9–12 mm. Labial palpus slender; segment 2 only slightly broader than segment 3; both segments of about same length, white, each with a broad black band most distinct at outer surface. Scape of antenna white mottled with black; flagellum thickened, yellow. Forewing white mottled with yellow-brown and black-tipped scales; an oblique black fascia from 1/3 of costa to 2/5 at dorsum running through a patch of raised black scales in fold; a transverse black fascia at 3/4 with a distinct patch of raised black scales in middle; both patches of raised black scales surrounded by yellow brown; indistinct costal and tornal spots connected by weak oblique fascia; apical area with many dark scales and some yellow brown in middle; fringes white with black fringe line. Hindwing light grey with white-grey fringes. Female. Flagellum of antenna slender, ringed blackish brown and white. Otherwise similar to male.
Male abdomen (Fig. 20, 22). Tergum VIII linguiform-quadrate, anterior margin invaginated, broadly Ushaped, thickened. Sternum VIII distally tapered, conically pointed.
Male genitalia (Figs. 27–28, 36). See description of genus.
Female genitalia (Fig. 42). See description of genus.
Variation. The type series shows only slight variation, apart from being more or less worn.
Diagnosis. C fuerteventura is characterized by the slender segment 2 of the labial palpus, the thickened flagellum of the male antenna, and by the patches of black scales surrounded by yellow brown in the forewing. In male genitalia, the glandiductors have a wide anterior opening as do the internal ducts.
Etymology. C. fuerteventura is named after its place of occurrence: the island of Fuerteventura, which is situated in the Atlantic Ocean about 100 km west of Morocco. It is considered the oldest of the Canary Islands, having not been submerged for about 20 million years. The species name is a noun in apposition.
Biology. Early stages and host-plant unknown. The type series was collected at light during the winter months from the end of September to March in mountainous surroundings at low elevation.
Distribution (Fig. 43). Only known from the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (Spain). Remarks. Patches of raised scales in the forewings are rare in Gnorimoschemini, but are present in the somewhat similar, but smaller species of Microlechia Turati. Canarischema furteventura may also be mistaken for species of Ochrodia Povolný, e.g., O. subdiminutella (Stainton), which are common (and often abundant) in dryer parts of the Canary Islands and adjacent North Africa, but Ochrodia do not have raised scales. The genitalia of both of these genera differ markedly from those of C. furteventura.
description: Published as part of Landry, Jean-François, Nazari, Vazrick, Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Huemer, Peter & Karsholt, Ole, 2017, Review of the genus Agonochaetia Povolný (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae), and description of a new genus and species from the Canary Islands, pp. 451-485 in Zootaxa 4300 (4) on pages 473-475, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/840096