Oiketicoides eldarica (Kozhanshikov, 1956)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Psychidae
- genus
- Oiketicoides
- species
- Oiketicoides eldarica
description
(Figs 21, 43)
description
Redescription. Head. Frons and vertex are densely covered with light brown hair. Eyes EI 0.5. Antennae of nearly half forewing length, with very long and widely separated pecten and 28 segments. Thorax. Wings. Wingspan 21 – 23 mm, forewing length 9 – 10 mm. Wings short, broad, costal margin almost straight, slightly concave at the base. Apex roundish, termen oblique, posterior margin straight. Less densely covered with long yellowish to greyish brown very thin hair-like scales, more densely at the base. FI 1.8. Hindwings of the same colour as forewings, somewhat darker greyish at the anal angle. Abdomen. Protruding distinctly the hindwings, conical and densely covered with yellowish-grey hair. Male genitalia. GP 4168 (Fig. 43). Quite similar to O. minuta but spines on the clasper of the sacculus are shorter. Valvae and cucullus broader. Saccus is longer, slenderer. Female. Unknown. Larval case. Unknown.
distribution
Distribution. Described from 3 males, collected in the Eldar range in Azerbaijan. Rarer and localized also on the eastern and south-eastern part of the Anatolian peninsula.
materials_examined
Material examined: 6 ♁ Turkey, Erzurum, Kirecli Gec., W-Seite, 2150 m, 9 – 10. viii. 1995, leg. H. & P. Kautt; 1 ♁ Turkey, Adana, 7 km N Saimbeyli, 1400 m, 8. viii. 1992, leg. Kautt & Weisz; 18 ♁ Turkey, Van, 5 km W Gevas, ca. 1800 m, 13 – 19. viii. 1995, leg. P. Kautt; 1 ♁ Turkey, Prov. Tunceli, Munzur Daglari, 11 km NE Tunceli, Munzur Vadisi Milli Park, 1050 m, 7. viii. 2005, leg. Tibor Czövári; 1 ♁ Kleinasien (Turkey), Prov. Kars, Araş-Tal, Umg. Kağizman, 1700 m, 29. viii. 1977, leg. de Freina; 1 ♁ Turkey, Kars, Akcay, 1400 m, 17. viii. 1979, leg. Eckweiler (MWM, CWA, CTS).