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2. Diagnose
2.1. Falter
Bidzilya et al. (2019: 15-16) beschreiben erstmals die männlichen Genitalien. Sie erläutern zur Art: "Diagnosis. Stomopteryx lacteolella can easily be recognized externally by its light, yellowish brown forewing with a brown dot in the cell corner and dark brown apex. The male genitalia are rather similar to those of S. detersella (Zeller, 1847), but S. lacteolella has broader valvae bulging anteriorly whereas they are boomerang-shaped in S. detersella. Vinculum surrounding phallus has a triangular sclerotization in S. detersella but it is straight thorn shaped in S. lacteolella. Moreover, the phallus is more robust, with shorter ventral process and larger sclerotized apical hook in S. lacteolella."
4. Weitere Informationen
4.1. Andere Kombinationen
- Gelechia tesserapunctella Amsel, 1935 [Originalkombination]
4.2. Taxonomie und Faunistik
Turati (1924: 166) wollte eigentlich gar keine neue Art beschreiben, sondern nur eine neue Form. Das Problem: Die Beschreibung, auf die er sich bezog, kannte außer ihm niemand - sie wurde offensichtlich nie publiziert. Und so wurde Turatis Beschreibung der "Stomopteryx lacteolella f. unipunctella" selbst zur Artbeschreibung von Stomopteryx lacteolella und sein Exemplar aus "Berca" (Bengasi in Libyen) zum Holotypus.
Bidzilya et al. (2019: 15-16) melden die Art von einem zweiten Fundort, diesmal in der Negev-Wüste in Israel: "3 ♂, Negev, Nahal (Wadi) Zin, 8.x.1999 (Pavlíček) (gen. slide 19007, J. Šumpich) (NMPC).". Sie schreiben zur Verbreitung: "Distribution. Libya, Israel (new record)." Allerdings sind von dieser Art bisher erst 4 Exemplare bekannt geworden. Die Autoren merken an: "Stomopteryx lacteolella was described from one specimen from Benghazi (“Berca”) in Libya. Turati (1924: 166) wrote (here translated from Italian): ”Of this species recently described by Dumont was collected only one exemplar...”. However, no description of a lacteolella Dumont seems to exist, and the name should therefore by [recte: be] ascribed to Turati. Moreover he was of the opinion that his specimen was a form of (the undescribed) S. lacteolella Dumont. As Turati had only one specimen the name unipunctella becomes an objective synonym of S. lacteolella. This species seems to be known only from the holotype. It has not been been dealt with in the literature since its description, apart from a few catalogues and websites. The specimen from Israel (Fig. 15) matches the colour figure of the holotype well."
(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)
4.3. Literatur
- Bidzilya, O., Karsholt, O., Kravchenko, V. & J. Šumpich (2019): An annotated checklist of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of Israel with description of two new species. — Zootaxa, 4677 (1): 1-68. [zum PDF-Download auf researchgate.net]
- Erstbeschreibung: Turati, E. (1924): Spedizione lepidotterologica in Cirenaica 1921 - 1922. — Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 63: 21-191, pl. I-VI. Pavia. [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
