Oiketicoides minuta
Creators: name: Arnscheid, Wilfried R.
name: Sobczyk, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Psychidae
Oiketicoides
Oiketicoides minuta

description: Oiketicoides minuta (Kozhanshikov, 1956)
(Figs 19, 42)
Amictoides minuta Kozhanshikov, 1956: 408, holotype in ZIN. Type locality: Armenia (?), Araks Valley.
Material examined: 1 ♁ Asia min. (Turkey), Jozghat [Yozgat], 24–27.viii.1975, leg. Friedel; 1 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Ankara, Köroglu Daglari, 500 m, 10 km SÖ Beypazari, 12.ix.1983, leg. Werner Wolf; 1 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Konya, Sultandaglari, 1660 m, 11 km S Akşehir, 31.viii.1983, LF, leg. Werner Wolf; 1 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Sivas, 5 km W Gürün, 1500 m, 9.viii.1988, leg. Gyulai, Hreblay, Ronkay et Ronkay; 1 ♁ Turkey, Gürün, 1400m, 23.viii.1977, leg. W. Thomas; 15 ♁ Turkey, Bingöl / Muş, Buglan Gecidi, 1660 m, 11.8.1991, leg. P. Kautt; 1 ♁ Turkey, Erzurum, Kirecli Gec. Westseite, 2150 m, 9–10.viii.1995, leg. H. & P. Kautt; 1 ♁ Kleinasien (Turkey), Prov. Kars, vic. Karakurt, AraşTal. 1500 m, 2–3.viii.1978, leg. de Freina; 13 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Agri, Umg. Patnos, 1700 m, 1.viii.1985, leg. Heinz; 1 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Mersin, Toros Daglari, 300 m, 3 km NW Mut, 4.ix.1983, leg. Werner Wolf; 15 ♁ Turkey Adana, Kücük Gecidi, 1650 m, 9.viii.1991, leg. P. Kautt; 1 ♁ Turkey, Adana, 7 km N Saimbeyli, 1400 m, 8.viii.1992, leg. Kautt & Weisz; 11 ♁ Turkey, Adana, Saimbeyli, 1400 m, 10.viii.1991, leg. P. Kautt; 2 ♁ Turkey, Halfeti, Valley of Euphrat, 500 m, 17–23.viii. 1991, leg. Gy. Laszlo; 7 ♁ Kurdistan (Turkey), Wan (Van) 1900 m, 19.viii.(19)35, Daniel, München. 1 ♁ ditto, 3.ix.(19)35; 23 ♁ Turkey, Van, 5 km W Gevas, ca. 1800 m, 4.-9.ix.1991, leg. P. Kautt; 3 ♁ ditto, 24.vii–5.viii.1992, leg. Kautt & Weisz; 2 ♁ Ostanatolien, (Turkey), Van Gölü, ca. 1800 m, 1–8.viii.1965, leg. H. Noack.
Redescription. Small size species. Head. Frons and vertex long yellowish brown hairy. Eyes EI 0.6. Antennae are relatively long, two-thirds of forewing length, with 30–31 segments. Pecten short.
Thorax. Wings. Small and tiny. Densely covered with long yellowish-brown hair. Forewings short, wingspan 20–23 mm, forewing length 9–11 mm, costal margin straight or often slightly concave in the basal third. Apex roundish, termen slightly oblique. Short and medium sized scales, lanceolate or bifurcated.
Abdomen very slender, protruding distinctly from the hindwings.
Male genitalia. GP 4146, 4171, 4172 (Fig. 42). Tegumen slightly pointed, broadly folded laterally. Closed valvae not protruding the distal end of the tegumen. Clasper of the sacculus broad, more sclerotized, covered with 7–8 short spines. Cucullus slender, directed downwardly. Saccus short, lobe-shaped caudally.
Female. Unknown.
Larval case. Unknown.
Distribution. First described after a couple of males from the border area between Turkey and Armenia collected by Ryabov (Kozhanshikov 1956). It is probably endemic but widespread in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the Anatolian peninsula.
description: Published as part of Arnscheid, Wilfried R. & Sobczyk, Thomas, 2023, Taxonomic review of the Oiketicoides species (Lepidoptera: Psychidae: Oiketicinae Acanthopsychini) from Anatolia, the Middle East and Central Asia, pp. 373-394 in Zootaxa 5239 (3) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7634923