Scrobipalpa tannuolella BIDZILYA, HUEMER & ŠUMPICH, 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY
name: HUEMER, PETER
name: ŠUMPICH, JAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa tannuolella

description: Scrobipalpa tannuolella sp. nov.
Figs 17, 76
Type material. Holotype ♂, Russia, Tuva rep., 50°45’N 94°29’E, E. Tannu-Ola mts, 5 km ENE, Khol-Oozha, steppe slopes, 1250 m, 16–19.vi.1995 (Jalava & Kullberg) (gen. slide 320/16, OB) (MZH).
Diagnosis. The new species is characterised externally by the uniformly greyish brown forewing with black mark in fold and a pair of black dots edged with brown in the cell corner. The similar species, S. ochraeata sp. nov. differs in the absence of black markings in the cell corner and in fold. Scrobipalpa reiprichi Povolný, 1984 is rather similar in the male genitalia, but differs externally in well developed black streaks on the costal margin. Long cucullus (far extending beyond top of uncus), short narrow vincular processes and elongate uncus are characteristic of the male genitalia. Scrobipalpa reiprichi differs in the shorter cucullus (not extending beyond the top of uncus), a narrower gap between cucullus and sacculus, more elongate vinculum and the saccus extending far beyond the top of the pedunculus (see for comparison Huemer & Karsholt 2010: 382, fig. 37). The new species differs from S. intima (Povolný, 2001) and S. punctulata Li & Bidzilya, 2019 in the longer cucullus, a distinct transition from tegumen to uncus, and the sacculus distinctly bent apically.
Description. Adult (Fig. 17). Wingspan 11.3 mm. Head, thorax and tegulae covered with grey, brown-tipped scales, frons grey, labial palpus upcurved, light grey mixed with brown, palpomere 2 white on inner and upper surface, scape brown, flagellomeres brown ringed with light grey. Forewing uniformly greyish brown, fold with black mark and mixed with light brown, pair of black spots edged with brown in cell corner, diffuse light grey subapical transverse fascia at 3/4, cilia grey, brown-tipped. Hindwing covered with grey, brown-tipped scales, cilia grey.
Male genitalia (Fig. 76). Uncus twice as long as broad, weakly narrowed apically, slightly constricted at 1/4, posterior margin with small medial emargination; gnathos short, narrow, pointed; tegumen elongate, with distinct transition to uncus, anteromedial emargination broad, extending to 1/3; cucullus narrow, of even width except slightly expanded in apical 1/4, extending distinctly beyond top of uncus; sacuulus at base broader than cucullus, outer margin distinctly bent, 1/5 length of cucullus, with inwardly curved pointed tip, gap to cucullus broad and deep; vinculum twice as broad as long, posteromedial emargination broad, V-shaped, vincular processes short, narrow, with outwardly curved tip; saccus gradually narrowed towards pointed apex, extending beyond top of pedunculus; distal portion of phallus moderately broad, of equal width, apex rounded, apical arm narrow, caecum weakly inflated, 1/3 length of phallic tube.
Female. Unknown.
Biology. The holotype was collected in mid June in steppe slopes at an altitude of 1250 m.
Molecular data. No barcode available.
Distribution. Russia: Tuva.
Etymology. The species name reflects the distribution of the new species in the Tannu-Ola Mountain of Tuva Republic in Russia.
description: Published as part of BIDZILYA, OLEKSIY, HUEMER, PETER & ŠUMPICH, JAN, 2022, Taxonomy and faunistics of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in southern Siberia, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 5218 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5218.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7409836