Crinipus leucozonipus Hampson 1896
Creators: name: Bartsch, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Sesiidae
Crinipus
Crinipus leucozonipus

description: Crinipus leucozonipus Hampson, 1896
Figs. 1–3, 13, 14
Syntypes: Aden (Yerbury, Nurse) (BMNH). The designation of a lectotype seems unnecessary as the four syntypes, which do exist, are certainly conspecific: 3 ♂ (BMNH): (1) “Aden, 95–69, Yerbury, 5.3.95 ”, “ Crinipus leucozonipus type $, Hmpsn.”, “BM genitalia slide 3841”; (2) “Aden, 95–69, Yerbury, 13.2.95 ”; (3) “Aden, 4.95” (Fig. 1). 1 Ψ(MNHP): “Aden, 3.95”, “ leucozonipus Ψcotype Hps., J. Joisey, ded. 1920, coll. F. le Cerf” (Figs. 2−3).
Literature: Hampson, 1919: 54; Dalla Torre & Strand, 1925: 5; Gaede 1929: 518; Heppner & Duckworth, 1981: 41; Pühringer & Kallies, 2004: 43.
Additional specimens examined. 2 %, Saudi-Arabia, Riyadh, 13.Mar.1959; 1 %, id., 27.Mar.1959 (gen. prep. Bartsch 2005–01), leg. Dr. E. Diehl, ex coll. Dr. R. Bender (SMNS).
Redescription of the male. (Figs. 1, 14). Alar expanse 14–16.5 mm, forewing length 6–7 mm, antenna 4– 4.5 mm, body length 7–8 mm. Head with near white labial palp; second palpomere laterally and mesally with a stripe of brownish-grey scales; frons bright silver-white; vertex dark brownish-grey, admixed with some creamy-white; between antenna and ocellus a small, bright silver-white spot; pericephalic scales white; antenna black, posterior side with a pure white longitudinal stripe. Thorax dark brownish-grey, dorsally mottled with short, white, hair-like scales; patagia and mesothorax laterally white; posterior part of tegula as well as lateral scale-tufts of metathorax whitish admixed. Abdomen with anal tuft dark brownish-grey, scarcely mixed with white; tergite 2 anteriorly narrow and tergite 4 posteriorly broad, bordered with white. Legs dark brownish-grey; ventral edge of femur with white, hair-like scales; tibia and each tarsomere distally with a narrow white ring; forecoxa white, medially brownish-grey; medial part of mid- and hindtibia laterally white. Wings dark brownish-grey, more or less densely mottled with white scales; underside somewhat more whitish; fringes pale brownish-grey; transparent areas well developed; apical area absent; discal spot of forewing rather narrow, of hindwing triangular, reaching vein M2.
Redescription of the female. (Figs. 2–3). Alar expanse 13.5 mm. The female’s thorax and abdomen are darker and without interspersed white, hair-like scales; sternites black; anal tuft small, dorso-medially white; scale tufts of tibiae smaller, absent from first hindtarsomere; forewings with smaller transparent areas and well-developed apical area, opaque between radial veins. Genitalia not examined.
Variation. Insignificant, only marginal differences in the extent of the whitish markings are recognisable.
Diagnosis. Crinipus leucozonipus is a rather small and inconspicuously coloured species, yet distinct within the genus, as detailed under C. marisa.
description: Published as part of Bartsch, Daniel, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the clearwing moth genus Crinipus Hampson, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), pp. 36-46 in Zootaxa 2618 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197999