Oiketicoides pseudochottella sp. nov.

(Figs 10, 30, 45, 56)

Type material. Holotype: • ♂: TUNISIA: Siliana Gov. Maktar, 35°51’38’’ N 06°12’21’’ E, 30.vii.1993, leg. Hoppe (MWM).

Etymology. Pseudo (lat.: false) and chottella, species of the genus Oiketicoides. The species is named for its similarity to O. chottella, with which it was confused originally.

Description. ♂. Medium-sized Oiketicoides species with evenly brown scaled wings. Wingspan 22.0 mm, body length 11.0 mm, forewing length 10.0 mm, FI: 2.0.

Head. Antennae length 5.0 mm, with 36 segments, dorsally light brown densely scaled. Pecten dark brown. Longest pecten is the twelvefold length of the antennal segment. Head densely covered with long hair-like light brown scales, around the eyes a narrow border of dark brown scales, eyes large, black-grey, EI: 0.7.

Thorax. Forewings elongated, venation with r3+r4 stalked to a fifth and m2+m3 to a quarter length. Hindwings venation with m1 and m2 very short stalked, sc and rr fused and connected after 1/4 length with dc by a bar. Wings densely covered with medium brown scales. Front edge of forewings clearly darker brown scaled. Scales spatulate, distally undulated or notched (classes 2–3), fringes narrowly lanceolate, multi-pointed (Fig. 30).

Abdomen. Dorsally and ventrally densely covered with long light brown hair-like scales.

Male genitalia. (GU-251993, Sobczyk). Total length 2.6 mm, width 0.6 mm. When closed, the valvae reach the distal end of the tegumen, which is rounded and laterally folded inwards on both sides. Anellus wider than the width of the valvae, distally with fine spines. Valvae broad, sacculus narrower distally, rounded, with approximate eight short spines arranged in two rows. Vinculum mediolaterally bulging, saccus short, distal drop-shaped. Phallus 1.65 mm long, elongated tubular, distally widened with a distinct hook-shaped projection (Figs 45, 56).

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Tunisia.

Diagnosis. The specimen was listed in a series of eight specimens from Kasserine in Tunisia by Sobczyk et al. (2014) (in this paper mentioned as O. chottella) under O. tedaldii. Remarkable are the relatively broad scales. None of the North African Oiketicoides -species studied shows such broad scales, which are also hardly notched. Resembles slightly O. chottella in general appearance but differs beside the broad scales by the tegumen, which is rounded, distally hardly notched, with scattered setae in O. chottella and more rounded and laterally folded in O. pseudochottella sp. nov.