Falkovitshella Passerin d’Entrèves and Roggero, 2007

d, Pietro Passerin, Entrèves & Roggero, Angela, 2013, Taxonomy of Palaearctic scythridids: description of Falkovitshella hindukushi sp. nov. and Scythris wadiqeltella sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Scythrididae), Journal of Natural History (Ital. J. Zool.) 47 (29 - 30), pp. 1983-1991 : 1984

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2012.763106

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scientific name

Falkovitshella Passerin d’Entrèves and Roggero, 2007
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Genus Falkovitshella Passerin d’Entrèves and Roggero, 2007

Type species: Scythris asema Falkovitsh, 1972 View in CoL .

Type locality: Ayakguzhumdy , Buchara region, Uzbekistan .

Until now, seven species were included in the genus Falkovitshella ( Passerin d’Entrèves and Roggero 2007b) . Here, two species (i.e. Scythris deserticola Nupponen and Scythris karvoneni Nupponen ) are transferred to the genus on the basis of the following characters ( Passerin d’Entrèves and Roggero 2007b: p. 118): uncus Y-shaped and elongate; gnathos slim and characterized by the joining arms shorter than the distal arm; phallus thin and tapered to apex; S8 largely triangular shape and elongate with an evident transverse, curved ridge. Both species were collected from Uzbekistan ( Nupponen 2010). The asymmetrical valvae of F. karvoneni are unique within the genus, and allow us to identify a different morphological pattern, which is seemingly also present in the new species from Afghanistan described herein.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Scythrididae

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