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

description: Antoniejanse minima sp. nov.
Figs 14–17, 23, 32, 33, 38
Paratelphusa reducta Janse, 1958 — Bidzilya 2007. Misidentification.
Type material. Holotype ♂, Namibia, Namutuoni, Etosha NP, 23–25.xi.2000, LF, leg. W. Mey, gen. slide 222/23, O. Bidzilya (in MfN). Paratypes: 1 ♀, same data as for holotype, gen. slide 504/14, O. Bidzilya; 1 ♂, Namibia, Brandberg, am Königstein, 21.iii. 2001, 2440 m, leg. W. Mey, gen. slide 114/05, O. Bidzilya; 1 ♀, Brandberg, Mason Shelter, 8.iii. 2002, 1740 m, leg. W. Mey, gen. slide 72/05, O. Bidzilya; 1 ♂, Brandberg, Mason Shelter, 6.iii. 2002, 1740 m, leg. W. Mey, gen. slide 2/24, O. Bidzilya; 1 ♂, Namibia, Brandberg, Wasserfallfläche, 30.iii. 2001, 1940 m, leg. W. Mey, gen. slide 241/23, O. Bidzilya (all in MfN).
Diagnosis. Antoniejanse minima sp. nov. is the smallest known species of the genus with the wingspan 6.3–7.0 mm. Forewings are pure white with black longitudinal streaks (A. griseoptera has somewhat similar wing pattern, but black streaks are less distinct, costal margin with diffuse black spots and ground colour of forewing is creamishwhite). In male genitalia, A. minima sp. nov. has stout, curved on 1/3 and long (exceeding top of uncus) glandiductor, reduced sacculus and juxta process, as well as apical part of phallus with set of minute cornuti (in A. griseoptera the glandiductor is distinctly inflated at base and much narrower, sacculus and juxta process present; similarly A. mediopunctata sp. nov. has also reduced sacculus, but glandiductor is straight and short, not exceeding top of uncus). Female genitalia of A. mediopunctata sp. nov. can be recognized by posteriorly wrinkled ductus bursae and the absent of signum (other species of the genus have signa and posterior part of ductus bursae is not wrinkled).
Description (Figs 14–17). Wingspan 6.3–7.0 mm. Head covered with white scales ringed with black before white tip; labial palpus recurved, segment 2 black with white apex and white inner surface, segment 3 black with white apex, almost as broad and 1/3 length of segment 3; scape white with few brown scales; flagellum uniformly brown; tegulae white, thorax white with two brown line; forewing white, interrupted black streak in fold, two elongate black spot in basal half of costal margin, black narrow streak in cell and near apex, black suffusion along apical half of costal margin; fringes white black-tipped; hindwing and fringes light grey.
Male genitalia (Figs 32, 33). Uncus subtrapezoid, posteromedial incision deep, slender; gnathos reduced; tegumen broad at base, distal part narrow subrectangular, anteromedial emargination broad, subtriangular; glandiductor stout, curved on 1/3, apically pointed; sacculus and juxta process absent; phallus strongly curved at base, distal part weakly sinuate, pointed apically, with 5–7 small thorn-shaped cornuti.
Female genitalia (Fig. 38). Papillae anales subovate, covered with long hair-like setae; apophyses posteriores long, slender; sternum VIII twice broader than long, weakly sclerotized, unmodified; apophyses anteriores 2/3 length and slightly thicker than apophyses posteriores; ductus bursae moderately broad, antrum weakly wrinkled; corpus bursae ovate, no signum.
Biology. Larval stages and hostplant unknown. Adults have been collected in March and November.
Distribution. Namibia.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin “ minimum ”—small, referring to the smallest known species in the genus Antoniejanse.
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 page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10693355