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Klimeschia biarmatella Budashkin 2003

  • 1. ) &) Florusstrasse 5, D 53225 Bonn, c / o Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany; e-mail: tinagma @ msn. com
  • 2. ) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; e-mail: jansumpich @ seznam. cz

Description

Klimeschia biarmatella Budashkin, 2003

(Figs 25–31)

Material examined. RUSSIA: ALTAI REPUBLIC: Kash-Agach District, Kurai env. (15 km SW), Dzhangyskol lake, 1830 m a.s.l., coniferous forest / steppe, 50°10′49″N, 87°44′19″E, 24.–25.vi.2015, 1 J (gen. prep. Gaedike 8953), J. Šumpich leg. (NMPC); Ulagan village (45 km N), Chulyshman valley, 600 m a.s.l., 51°01′03″N, 88°00′39″E, grassy steppe, rocks, 27.–28.vi.2015, 1♀ (gen. prep. Gaedike 8944), J. Šumpich leg. (NMPC); Aktash village, 1400 m a.s.l., 50°19′12″N, 87°36′00″E, 11.vii.2014, 1 ♀, J. Šumpich leg. (NMPC).

Description of the female (Figs 25–27). Wingspan 8 mm. Forewings dark with bronze reflection, in middle divided by straight white line. Forewings of female slightly broader than in male, otherwise very similar to male.

Female genitalia (Figs 28–31). Prolonged triangular, posteriorly truncated sclerite between anterior apophysae; posterior margin of sternite VIII with central protrusion; sterigma long, strongly sclerotized, covered with minute pointed thorns, posteriorly ending in three pointed tips; ductus bursae posterior of corpus bursae with some minute thorns; signum formed by approximately 25 narrow needle-shaped cornuti of various lengths radiating from rounded base, as characteristic for the family.

Distribution. The species was described from Kazakhstan. Here, we present the first records in addition to the holotype (male). New species for Russia.

Notes

Published as part of Gaedike, Reinhard & Šumpich, Jan, 2017, Tinea altaica sp. nov. and new records of some small moths from the Russian Altai (Lepidoptera: Meessiidae, Tineidae, Douglasiidae, Epermeniidae, Glyphipterigidae: Acrolepiinae), pp. 259-273 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 268, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0073, http://zenodo.org/record/5404220

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMPC
Event date
2014-07-11 , 2015-06-24 , 2015-06-27
Verbatim event date
2014-07-11 , 2015-06-24/25 , 2015-06-27/28
Scientific name authorship
Budashkin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Douglasiidae
Genus
Klimeschia
Species
biarmatella
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Klimeschia biarmatella Budashkin, 2003 sec. Gaedike & Šumpich, 2017

References

  • BUDASHKIN YU. I. 2003: Reviziya moley-duglasiid (Lepidoptera, Douglasiidae) fauny byvshego SSSR. [A revision of Douglasiidae (Lepidoptera) of the former USSR fauna]. Pratsi Zoologichnogo Muzeyu KNUT Shevchenko (Kiiv) 1: 59 - 112 (in Russian).