Nothris radiata ( Staudinger, 1879 )

Karsholt, Ole & Šumpich, Jan, 2015, A review of the genus Nothris Hübner, 1825, with description of new species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Zootaxa 4059 (3), pp. 471-498 : 489-491

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Nothris radiata ( Staudinger, 1879) View in CoL

( Figs 27–34 View FIGURES 27 – 34 , 90–100 View FIGURES 90 – 100 , 112 View FIGURES 108 – 113 , 131–133 View FIGURES 129 – 136 )

Depressaria radiata Staudinger, 1879: 302

Other material studied. Turkey. Artvin, Kaçkar Mts., 23 km NW Sangöl, 2000 m, 1♂, 20.vii.1993, leg. K. Larsen ( ZMUC); Konya, 15 km S Akşehir, Sultandağlari, 1600 m, 1♀, 31.viii.1983, leg. W. Wolf, genitalia slide Karsholt 5278 ( ZMUC); Erzurum, Kop Geçidi, 2250 m, 22.viii.1993, leg. F. Schepler ( ZMUC); Kars, 20 km NW Kagizman, 1500 m, 1♂, 11.ix.1993, leg. M. Fibiger ( ZMUC); Kars, 3 km E Karakut, 1450 m, 1♀, 12.ix.1993, leg. M. Fibiger ( ZMUC); Kayseri, 25 km S Kayseri, Erciyes Daği, 2000 m, 2♂, 28.vii.1989, leg. M. Fibiger & N. Esser ( ZMUC); same data but 2800 m, 2♂, 29.vii.1989, genitalia slide Karsholt 5266♂, gen. prep. Šumpich 15038 ( ZMUC); Konya, Taurus, road Bozkor-Hadim, 5 km SE Üçpinar, 1100 m, 2♂, 1♀, 13.vii.1986, leg. M. Fibiger, genitalia slide Karsholt 5265♂, gen. prep. Šumpich 15036, 15037 ( ZMUC, NMPC); Konya, Üçpinar, 3 km SE, 1500 m, 3.x.1995, K. Larsen, gen. prep. Šumpich 15040 ( ZMUC); Nevşehir, 10 km V Ürgüp, Göreme, 1300 m, 1♂, 11–13.viii.1993, leg. F. Schepler, gen. prep. Šumpich 15039 ( ZMUC).

Description. Adult ( Figs 27–34 View FIGURES 27 – 34 ). Wingspan 20–25 mm. Segment 2 of labial palpus blackish brown, white on upper and inner surfaces; segment 3 cream-white. Antenna light yellow-brown, indistinctly darker ringed. Head, collar and tegula whitish grey-brown; thorax as forewing. Forewing light grey-brown with black veins; black spots in fold and at ½ and 2/ 3 in middle of wing followed by light scales; cilia grey with darker cilia line. Hindwing light grey.

Variation. The examined specimens vary slightly in the colour of the head and forewings – from lighter to darker. Two specimens have some black scales along the veins in apical part of the forewing, and one specimen has segment 2 of the labial palpus light brown. Specimens from higher altitude localities (especially Erciyes Daği, Figs 33–34 View FIGURES 27 – 34 ) differ in having the forewings without black veins, only a weak black streak and some black scales along the veins in the apical part of the wing.

Male genitalia ( Figs 90–100 View FIGURES 90 – 100 ). Valva narrow, comparatively short, with a conchoidal projection basally, gradually tapering to the apex. Sacculus short, medially narrowed; its club-like apex is covered with about 13 strongly sclerotized spines. Uncus comparatively long, conspicuously hat-like broadened apically, very densely covered with short setae. Gnathos markedly curved, seen from lateral view distinctly broadened before end, terminated by a spike. Saccus subrectangular. Phallus comparatively short, conspicuously curved, terminated by a long flagellum. Large elongated lamina present in bulbus ejaculatorius.

Female genitalia ( Figs 112 View FIGURES 108 – 113 , 131–133 View FIGURES 129 – 136 ). Papillae anales small, broadly oval. Apophyses posteriores comparatively long, slightly more than double length of apophyses anteriores. Subgenital plate markedly narrowing dorsally, with large unsclerotized areas laterally. Ductus bursae comparatively long, twice rotated round its axis distally and approximately nine times coiled proximally. Ductus seminalis broad and coiled at first, then very narrow and straight, gently spined. Corpus bursae oval, signum distinctive, basal plate broad and regularly rounded in shape of a circle sector, with two large lateral triangular plates.

Differential diagnosis. N. radiata is characterized by having the veins in the forewing black. This is also found in N. congressariella , but not so distinctly, and that species is also smaller. Specimens of the form almost without black veins resemble N. sabulosella , but they are smaller and more slender-winged. In the genitalia a very distinct species with characteristic uncus and gnathos, short valvae and clubbed sacculus in males; in females with numerous spirals of ductus bursae and characteristic shape of subgenital plate and signum.

Distribution. Turkey. A record from Ohrid in Macedonia published by Klimesch (1968) as N. radiata belongs to N. sulcella .

Bionomics. Early stages and host plant unknown. One specimen from the type series was bred on 1st August from a larva, but no further details were given ( Staudinger, 1879).

Remarks. Depressaria radiata was described from five females from Karaman in southern Turkey. A lectotype was published by Hannemann (1954), who figured the female genitalia and the wing venation and transferred radiata to the Gelechiidae , however, without being able to place it in a genus. Two syntypes of N. sabulosella belong to N. radiata .