Pafazaria Diskus & Stonis 2023, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Stonis, Jonas R.
name: Diškus, Arūnas
name: Remeikis, Andrius
name: Orlovskytė, Svetlana
name: Solis, Alma
name: Paulavičiūtė, Brigita
name: Xu, Jiasheng
name: Dai, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tischeriidae
Pafazaria

description: 7. Genus Pafazaria Diškus & Stonis, gen. nov.
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(Figs 306–364)
Type species: Pafazaria capitata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. (described below)
Diagnosis. In the male genitalia, species of Pafazaria are characterized by the presence of both an anellus and juxta (the only Tischeriidae genus with both structures together); uniquely there is a “hood” over the juxta that does not occur elsewhere. In the female genitalia, the genus is characterized by absence of an antrum which is characteristic of genera possessing a juxta in the male genitalia. See Tabs 2, 3 for occurrence of these diagnostic characters in other genera of Tischeriidae.
Notes. Based on molecular data, Pafazaria appears to be a distinct genus, and quite close to Neotischeria (Figs 62–64, 68). On the other hand, if the analysis includes only genera possessing a juxta, then Pafazaria aligns as a sister taxon with Manitischeria (Fig. 67).
Adult. Head: frontal tuft overlapping the frons, comprised of long but slender lamellar scales, collar paired to unpaired, comprised of very slender but lamellar (not piliform) scales. Forewing brownish grey to ochreous brown, without a distinctive pattern but apically darker. Hindwing slender, without androconia.
Male genitalia. Uncus with two wide lateral lobes. Socii membranous, large, distinctly paired, spinose, with numerous tiny spines. Tegumen short or medium short, without additional thickenings; diaphragm with a large spinose lobe-like projection; pseudognathos absent. Valva varies from slender to basally wide with inner lobe(s); basal process of the valva usually absent; occasionally, long. Transtilla absent. Anellus membranous to slightly thickened laterally, without chetae or spines. Juxta present, variously developed, with a unique “hood” caudally. Vinculum short, with triangular or truncated ventral plate. Phallus slender, rod-like, apically slender or with lateral lobe-like projections.
Female genitalia. Ovipositor lobes large; second pair of ovipositor lobes three times smaller or equal in size in comparison to main ovipositor lobes; sometimes each lobe of the second pair of ovipositor lobes divided into two smaller lobes. Lateral lobes short or small. Anterior apophyses significantly to slightly shorter than posterior apophyses. Prela usually with three pairs of rod-like projections; in contrast to many other Tischeriidae, transverse prela relatively slender and projections of the inner prela connected to each other distally. Caudal sclerite of prela strongly developed, inverted U- or V-shaped, with a pointed and well-chitinized projection caudally. Antrum absent (probably replaced by a distal joint between projections of the inner prela). Accessory sac indistinctive or absent; ductus spermathecae slender and very short, with 3–4 coils and large, oval-shaped vesicle. Corpus bursae long, gradually narrowing towards caudal end or with a long and slender “neck” covered with tiny spines; pectinations in main body of corpus bursae absent.
Bionomics. The genus is trophically associated with Fabaceae and Malvaceae host plants. Larvae mine leaves and produce either irregular or rounded blotch-like leaf mines, or linear (gallery-like) leaf mines; frass absent in blotch-like leaf mines but deposited in initial part of the linear leaf mines. A nidus is invisible.
Species diversity and geographical distribution. Currently, the genus is known only from East—South East Asia: China (Yunnan) and Laos. In total, three species. One species from Yunnan, China was originally described in the genus Paratischeria (Xu et al. 2017); here, this species is transferred to a new genus: Pafazaria jingdongensis (Xu & Dai, 2017), comb. nov.
Etymology. The genus name is derived from the Lao pafa (east) and arbitrarily combined with the Slavian zaria or zoria (dawn) referring to the region of distribution.
description: Published as part of Stonis, Jonas R., Diškus, Arūnas, Remeikis, Andrius, Orlovskytė, Svetlana, Solis, Alma, Paulavičiūtė, Brigita, Xu, Jiasheng & Dai, Xiaohua, 2023, Genera of Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera): a review of the global fauna, with descriptions of new taxa, pp. 1-131 in Zootaxa 5333 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5333.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261139