Digitivalva occidentella ( Klimesch, 1956 )

Marabuto, Eduardo, 2022, Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, DApporto, Dincă, Vicente & VilA, 2016, and 17 moth species new for the fauna of Portugal (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 25, pp. 305-322 : 307

4. Digitivalva occidentella ( Klimesch, 1956)

— Janes, Cascais, Lisboa, 130 m a.s.l. MGRS: 29 SMC6188 . 27.V.2015. Eduardo Marabuto leg. At light-trap. Gen. det. ( Fig. 1d ) .

Digitivalva occidentella seems to be a seldom recorded West-Mediterranean species not known by many more specimens than the type material ( Klimesch, 1956). In Iberia this species is apparently known only from Andalucía ( Gaedike, 1971).

Its known host-plant, Inula conyza , is locally present in the area ( Porto et al., 2020), under Pinus halepensis light woodland.

OECOPHORIDAE

Figures

Fig. 1.- Habitus of new Portuguese species. a.- Ptilocephala moncaunella. b.- Ptilocephala monteiroi. c.- Pseudoswammerdamia combinella. d.- Digitivalva occidentella. e.- Prays peregrina, adult. f.- Prays peregrina on host-plant. g.- Prays peregrina, pupae. h.- Epicallima mikkolai. i.- Eretmocera medinella. Photos: Eduardo Marabuto (a, b, d & h); Tita Frazão Lopes (c); Ernesto GonÇalves (e, f & g); Pedro Henriques (i).