Asapharcha angustella Bidzilya & Mey & Rajaei 2024, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Bidzilya, Oleksiy V., Mey, Wolfram, Rajaei, Hossein
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Gelechiidae; Asapharcha; Asapharcha angustella; North Cape
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11064519; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/637787B3FF9FE232FF61607CFDE0FDAD

Asapharcha angustella sp. nov. Figs 1, 17, 23, 24, 39 Type material. Holotype ♂, RSA [Republic of South Africa], North Cape, Lelyfontein, Esel-Kop, 27.xi.2008, leg. Ebert, Mey & Kühne; gen. slide 48/09, O. Bidzilya (MfN). Paratype: 2 ♂, RSA [Republic of South Africa], West Cape, N Montagu, Burger-Pass, 560 m, 27.xi.2013, leg. Mey; gen. slide 549/23, 614/23, O. Bidzilya (MfN). Diagnosis. In A. angustella sp. nov. the forewing is comparatively slender, greyish-brown with a brown spot at 1/3 of dorsal margin and 2/3 of costa. In similar species like Asapharcha fuscomaculata and A. tauropis , the forewing is broader, and details of their patterns are different. The male genitalia of A. angustella sp. nov. can be recognized by the basally constricted uncus; the parallel-sided cucullus to 3/4 its length (broadened to 2/3–3/4 its length in A. fuscomaculata ), then narrowing on the dorsal margin; and a slender phallus with a very short subapical process (in A. lacistoides sp. nov. subapical process is also short, but the phallus is much broader). Description. Adult (Figs 1, 17). Wingspan 15.3 mm. Head light-brown; labial palpus recurved, light brown, segment 2 with moderately long brush of scales beneath, outer surface of basal half dark brown; segment 3 with broad, dark brown, subapical ring; antennal scape blackish-brown; flagellomeres brown with very narrow grey rings, short-ciliated. Thorax blackish-brown edged laterally with light brown; tegulae greyish-brown. Forewing light-brown, irregularly mixed with black-tipped scales, costal margin with short transvers black streaks and diffuse black spot on 2/3, another black spot on 1/3 of dorsal margin, fringes grey, brown-tipped; hindwing light grey without any pattern, fringes concolorous with hindwing. Male genitalia (Figs 23, 24). Uncus narrow at base, distal 2/3 broad, rounded, posterior margin with shallow medial emargination, covered with short hairs along margins in distal 2/3; gnathos comparatively short, strongly curved at base, then abruptly or weakly bent, ...