Antoniejanse Kemal & Kocak 2005
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
name: Rajaei, Hossein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Antoniejanse

description: Antoniejanse Kemal & Koçak, 2005
Paratelphusa Janse, 1958: 61. Preoccupied by Paratelphusa Zehntner, 1894 (Crustacea).
Type-species: Paratelphusa griseoptera Janse, 1958; by original designation.
Antoniejanse Kemal & Koçak, 2005: 15. Replacement name of Paratelphusa Janse, 1958.
Diagnosis. Species of Antoniejanse are small moths (wingspan 6–11 mm) with white to light-grey or light-brown forewing with black spots or longitudinal streaks. Some species of the genus (e.g., A. tenebrosa sp. nov.) can be confused with Benguelasa minor Bidzilya & Mey, 2011, but the latter has more distinct black spots. Other genera of Litini are larger in wingspan (except Lanceopenna), and forewing pattern usually consists of transverse oblique fasciae, ochreous-brown spots and tufts of raised scales. Thickened antennae in the male separate species of Paratelphusa from rest genera of Afrotropical Litini. However, some species of genus Aphanosola Meyrick, 1931 from subfamily Anomologinae show some similarities to Antoniejanse, like patterns of forewing and thickened antennal segments in males (Bidzilya et al. 2016). In male genitalia of Antoniejanse a subrectangular, posteromedially notched uncus is clearly differentiated from tegumen by distinct constriction; posterior margin of vinculum projecting posteriorly forming distinctly sclerotized ring-shaped sclerite (in Pseudotelphusa the same structure is less sclerotized, large and irregular); in Antoniejanse phallus is long, slender, bent; ductus ejaculatorius is reduced (usually long in rest genera of Litini). In Antoniejanse, male sternum VIII with deep posteromedial emargination and distinctly prolonged posterolateral corners are also characteristic (in Istrianis posterior margin of sternum VIII is straight and lateral corners are relatively short and rounded).
Description. Adult. Head smooth, white to light grey; labial palpus recurved, smooth, its segment 2 with dark medial and subapical rings or uniformly brown, as broad as, but 1.2–3 times longer than segment 3; antennal scape without pecten, flagellum grey ringed with black, in males thicker than females; thorax and tegulae same colour as head; wingspan 6.3–11.2 mm; forewing moderately slender, with slightly raised scales, ground colour off-white to cream and light-grey, pattern represented by black longitudinal streaks, black or dark brown tornal or medial spots; termen often spotted with black, ground colour and fold may be mottled with black-tipped scales; fringes same to the ground colour. Hindwing and its fringes light grey. Venation is described and illustrated by Janse (1958: 61–61, pls. 12, 13). Male’s tergum VIII (Figs 19–22) subtriangular, usually broad at base with narrow tongue-shaped posterior part, broadly trapezoid in P. mediopunctata sp. nov.; coremata a paired tuft of long and narrow hair-like (P. griseoptera, P. varii sp. nov.) or elongated, relatively broad scales (P. sagittata, P. tenebrosa sp. nov.); sternum VIII (Figs 19–22) subrectangular to trapezoid, posterior margin usually with deep broad emargination and elongate posteromedial corners. Female’s tergum VII and sternum VII trapezoid, posterior margin weakly concave, twice as long as segments I–VI, sternum VII with sclerotized area under posterior margin (Fig. 23).
Male genitalia with uncus moderately elongated, trapezoid to subrectangular, posterior margin with medial notch, laterally covered with long hair-like setae; gnathos reduced or represented by small ring-shaped sclerite, weakly sclerotized; tegumen is clearly separated from uncus by distinct lateral constriction, differs in shape from broadly triangular at base and narrow parallel-sided posteriorly (in P. minima sp. nov. and P. tenebrosa sp. nov.) to narrow, elongated, anteromedial emargination varies from deep triangular (in P. minima sp. nov.) to broad and shallow (in P. sagittata and P. tenebrosa sp. nov.); glandiductor (cucullus), if present, varies from long and narrow with strongly inflated rounded base (in P. griseoptera) to relatively short, digitate (in P. mediopunctata sp. nov.); sacculus a short, digitate process fused medially with juxta, absent in P. minima sp. nov. and P. mediopunctata sp. nov.; vinculum a narrow, directed posteriorly ring-shaped sclerite; juxta broadly U-shaped, simple (in P. minima sp. nov. and P. mediopunctata sp. nov.) or with two digitate processes; saccus reduced; phallus long (as long or longer than combined length of tegumen and uncus), moderately or distinctly bent, base strongly curved, connected with juxta by narrow plate-shaped sclerite, with minute thorn-shaped cornuti in P. minima sp. nov.
Female genitalia with papillae anales subtriangular, covered with short setae; apophyses posteriores 1.5– 2.5 times longer than the length of apophyses posteriores; segment VIII broad, unmodified, weakly sclerotized; apophyses anteriores straight, usually inflated at apex; ductus bursae either slender (P. sagittata) to moderately broad (P. minima sp. nov., P. griseoptera. P. reducta), antrum weakly sclerotized, from narrow funnel-shaped with minute spines (P. griseoptera, P. sagittata) to moderately broad, wrinkled (P. minima sp. nov.); corpus bursae membranous, ovate to rounded, signum absent (P. minima sp. nov.), paired arrow-shaped sclerite (P. sagittata), band of thorn-shaped sclerites (P. griseoptera), or as three elongate sclerites (P. reducta).
Biology. Host plant and early stages unknown.
Distribution. South Africa and Namibia.
Key to the species of Antoniejanse based on external characters
1. Segment 3 of labial palpus 1/3 length of segment 2.......................................................... 2
- Segment 3 of labial palpus as long or 1/2 length of segment 2.................................................. 3
2. Forewing white with distinct black streaks, wingspan 6.3–7.0 mm (Figs 14–17).................... A. minima sp. nov.
- Forewing greyish-white, black streaks absent, wingspan 8.0–10.0 mm (Figs 5–7)........................... A. reducta
3. Forewing dark, greyish-black, with two diffuse black spots near dorsal margin, other markings indistinct (Figs 11–13)......................................................................................... A. tenebrosa sp. nov.
- Forewing light, white to light grey or light brown, contrasting, with black suffusion in fold and with black tornal spot (Figs 1–4, 8–10, 18)............................................................................................ 4
4. Tornal spot large, fold distinctly mottled with black, ground colour of forewing white (Figs 8, 9)............. A. sagittata
- Tornal spot relatively small, fold slightly mottled with black, ground colour of forewing light grey to light brown (Figs 1–4, 10, 18)................................................................................................ 5
5. Forewing ground colour light brown (Fig. 10).................................................. A. varii sp. nov.
- Forewing ground colour light grey or cream (Figs 1–4, 18).................................................... 6
6. Forewing with two distinct brown spots in middle, no black streaks (Fig. 18)................. A. mediopunctata sp. nov.
- Forewing with distinct black streaks in fold and cell, no brown spots in middle (Figs 1–4)................ A. griseoptera
Key to the species of Antoniejanse based on male genitalia
1. Glandiductor, sacculus and juxta process present (Figs 24–26)................................................. 2
- Juxta process or glandiductor absent, sacculus present (Figs 27–34)............................................. 3
2. Glandiductor inflated at base, distal part narrow, much longer than sacculus and juxta process (Figs 24, 25).. A. griseoptera
- Glandiductor digitate, subequal to sacculus and juxta process (Fig. 26)................................... A. reducta
3. Juxta process absent, glandiductor present (Figs 32–35)...................................................... 4
- Juxta process present, glandiductor absent (Figs 27–31)....................................................... 5
4. Glandiductor strongly curved at base, long, exceeding top of uncus (Figs 32, 33)................... A. minima sp. nov.
- Glandiductor straight, short, not exceeding top of uncus (Fig. 34)........................... A. mediopunctata sp. nov.
5. Juxta process longer than sacculus, phallus strongly curved (Figs 29–31)......................... A. tenebrosa sp. nov.
- Juxta process as long as sacculus, phallus weakly curved (Figs 27, 28)........................................... 6
6. Sacculus wider than glandiductor, phallus apically narrowed (Fig. 27).................................... A. sagittata
- Sacculus narrower than glandiductor, phallus apically broadened (Fig. 28)............................ A. varii sp. nov.
Key to the species of Antoniejanse based on female genitalia
(Note: females of A. varii sp. nov. and A. mediopunctata sp. nov. are unknown)
1. Signa absent (Fig. 38).................................................................... A. minima sp. nov.
2. Signa present (Figs 35–37).............................................................................. 3
3. Signa as five pairs of thorn-shaped sclerites gathered in transverse band (Fig. 35)...................... .. A. griseoptera
- Signa as paired arrow-shaped plate or as three elongate sclerite (Figs 36, 37)...................................... 4
4. Signa as paired arrow-shaped plate (Figs 36, 37)............................................................ 5
Signa as three elongate sclerite (see Janse 1958: pl. 3; 1960: pl. 60h, 74 f,g)............................... A. reducta
5. Antrum 3 times longer than broad, ductus bursae slender (Fig. 36)...................................... A. sagittata
- Antrum 1.5 times as long as broad, ductus bursae relatively broad (Fig. 37)....................... A. tenebrosa sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy V. & Rajaei, Hossein, 2024, Review of the genus Antoniejanse Kemal & Koçak, 2005 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Litini), with description of four new species, pp. 451-465 in Zootaxa 5415 (3) on pages 452-454, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10693355