Coleophora kinangopensis, Baldizzone, 2022

Baldizzone, Giorgio, 2022, On the taxonomy of Afrotropical Coleophoridae (VII). New species of genus Coleophora Hübner, 1822 from Central, Southern Africa and Oman (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae), Zootaxa 5133 (3), pp. 431-442 : 438

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.3.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6521642
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scientific name	Coleophora kinangopensis
status	sp. nov.

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Coleophora kinangopensis View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 5 View FIGURES 1–5 , 22–25 View FIGURES 22–25 )

Diagnosis. Medium sized species of general brown appearance, with a darker longitudinal median stripe extending throughout the forewing. Based on the structure of the male genitalia, the species is similar to C. yemenita Baldizzone, 2007 . The main differences are the following: in C. kinangopensis , sp. nov. the lateral edge of the sacculus is almost straight and not oblique, the ventral angle is less protruding and the protuberance in the dorsal angle is wider at the base, the phallotheca is less sclerotized, the vesica is much shorter and the cornutus spiniform shaped is much shorter than that of C. yemenita which is similar to a needle about 2/3 of the length of the vesica.

Description. Wingspan 14 mm. Head brownish grey, dirty white above eye. Antenna: scape brown, without erect scales, flagellum ringed brown and dirty white. Labial palpus brown, second segment about 2.5 times as long as third. Proboscis of normal shape. Thorax and tegula brownish grey. Forewing light grey with brown, broad median longitudinal streak from base to apex; costal fringes light ochre, brown at apex, dorsal fringes light brown. Hindwing grey, fringes light brown. Abdomen brown.

Abdominal structures ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 22–25 ) No lateral posterior struts, transverse strut slightly curved with proximal edge thinner and more sclerotized. Tergal disks (3rd tergite) about 9 times longer than width, covered with about 25 spines.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 22–24 View FIGURES 22–25 ): Gnathos knob globular. Tegumen medially constricted, pedunculus dilated. Transtilla oval, narrower at base. Valvula strongly sclerotized and much expanded in ventral part, bristling with robust setae in dorsal part. Cucullus stout, slightly wider at base. Sacculus more sclerotized on outer edge, curved in ventral angle, with a long horn-shaped protuberance rounded and expanded at apex in dorsal angle. Phallotheca with two juxta rods, shorter one sclerotized only along a thin curved line in dorsal part, longer rod sclerotized in distal half and with a small rounded subapical tooth. Two long and pointed cornuti arising from wide base.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Bionomy. The early stages and the foodplant are unknown.

Distribution. Kenya.

Etymology. The name derives from Mount Kinangop where the specimen was collected.