Anomologa hobohmi Bidzilya & Karsholt & Metz & Rajaei 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Metz, Mark
name: Rajaei, Hossein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Anomologa
Anomologa hobohmi

description: Anomologa hobohmi (Janse, 1963) comb. nov.
Figs 6–8, 16–19, 24, 25, 29
Euryctista hobohmi Janse, 1963: 251. The moths of South Africa, 6 (3): 251. Holotype (♂) and seven paratypes (♂♂ and ♀♀), in DMSA (examined).
Type material examined. Holotype of E. hobohmi ♂, “ Abachaus, SWA Dec. 44, G Hobohm ” | “ Euryctista hobohmi Janse, ♂, Holotype No: 4448” | “g. 8996”, in DMSA. Paratypes: 1 ♂, “ Abachaus, SWA Jan. 44, G Hobohm ” | “ Euryctista hobohmi Janse, ♂, Holotype No: 4451” | “g. 10654”, in DMSA.
Further material examined. Namibia: 1 ♂, Tsumeb, SWA, 2.i.1938, leg. Gaerdes; gen. slide 28/23, O. Bidzilya. 1 ♂, Outjo, Buschfeld Park Resort, 4.ii.2009, leg. Mey; gen. slide 386/14, O. Bidzilya. 1 ♂, Kaokov, Joubertpass, 1360 m, 1.ii.2000, leg. Mey; gen. slide 54/23, O. Bidzilya. 1 ♂, 50 km N Okahandja, 10–11.i.2007, LF, leg. Mey & Ebert; gen. slide 546/14, O. Bidzilya. 1 ♀, Hobatere Lodge, campsite, 19–21.ii.2008, LF, leg. Mey; gen. slide 32/23, O. Bidzilya; all in MfN; Botswana: 1 ♂, Maun, 16 km NE, Botswana, 16–18.i.1978, leg. Scoble, in DMSA.
Diagnosis. Externally A. hobohmi is distinguished by well-developed black pattern in the forewing in combination with dark hindwing with contrasting yellowish white fringes. The differences from A. terminata sp. nov., the most similar species externally, are explained below under that species. An elongate saccus that extends anteriorly beyond the pedunculus and a large subapical tooth on the phallus are characteristic for A. hobohmi (in A. terminata sp. nov. the saccus is also elongate, but it is rounded apically rather than tapered and the subapical tooth of the phallus is much shorter than in the rest of the species in the genus). Female genitalia of E. hobohmi can easily be recognized by a narrow, elongate papillae anales and extremely inflated apices of the apophysis (not inflated or weakly flatted in rest of Anomologa species).
Redescription (Figs 6–8, 16, 17). Wingspan 21.0– 26.1 mm. Head ochreous-brown; labial palpus ochreous-brown mixed with dark brown. Antennal scape and flagellum light brown. Thorax and tegulae covered with white brown-tipped scales. Forewing pale, off white, basal black fascia at 1/8–1/7, narrowly connected with medial fascia at costal margin, medial fascia broad, irregular, distinctly angled and nearly joined with subapical fascia, subapical fascia subtriangular, narrowed from 2/3–3/4 of costa towards tornus, separated from termen by slender white stripe, termen narrowly suffused with black, fringe pale, tipped with brown, dorsal margin mixed with black; hindwing dark brown, fringe yellow.
Male genitalia (Figs 24, 25). Uncus lobes ovate, extends to 3/4 length of valva; tegumen subtrapezoid, anteromedial emargination broadly rounded, extending to 1/5–1/4 length of tegumen; valva moderately broad, ventral margin weakly broadened in distal portion, apex rounded; sacculus as broad as valva, dorsal margin straight or weakly rounded in distal part, ventral margin straight or gently bent inwards in basal 2/3, then narrowed towards apex, apex with short pointed tip, extends to 1/3–1/2 length of valva; vinculum slender, band-shaped, juxta lobes broadly rounded or subtriangular, separated by V-shaped incision; saccus parallel-sided to triangular, weakly constricted in middle in some specimens, apex rounded, extending anteriorly well beyond pedunculus; phallus as long as valva, straight or weakly sigmoid, narrowed in middle on one side, subapical tooth large, triangular.
Female genitalia (Fig. 29). Papillae anales narrow, elongate, equal in length to segment VIII, densely covered with setae in distal half; apophyses posteriores slender, apex strongly widened, rounded, slightly longer than segment VIII; segment VIII as long as broad, sternum with medial membranous zone, anterior margin weakly bent; ostium bursae indistinct; apophyses anteriores slender, rod-shaped, strongly broadened at apex, as long as segment VIII; ductus bursae membranous except short posterior part that is weakly sclerotized, slender, as long as segment VIII and apophyses anteriores; corpus bursae subovate, broadened anteriorly; signum absent.
Biology. Hostplant and larval stages unknown. Adults have been observed from December to February.
Distribution. Namibia and Botswana.
Remarks. Euryctista hobohmi was described based on male holotype and paratype collected in Abachaus (Abaehausberg, Otjiwarongo District), Namibia, and six other paratypes (all males) from other localities in Namibia and South Africa. Five examined paratypes from South Africa (three from Messina, one from Middelfontein and one from Blouberg) belong to A. dispulsa. The paratype labelled “Van Zylsrus, Gordonia Distr, 14.ii.1961, L. Vári” resembles externally A. dispulsa, but the status of this specimens is uncertain since its genitalia remains unexamined.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Karsholt, Ole, Metz, Mark & Rajaei, Hossein, 2025, Revision of the genus Anomologa Meyrick, 1926, including the description of a new species, and its impact on subfamilies of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), pp. 131-150 in Zootaxa 5575 (1) on pages 140-142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/14746582