Description of a new species of ltalian Cnephasia Curtis, 1826, from Mount Etna, with notes on the cnephasiine ovipositor (Lepidoptera Tortricidae)
Published 2024-12-02
Keywords
- Lepidoptera Tortricidae,
- Cnephasia etnana,
- new species,
- Italy
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Abstract
A new species of Italian tortricid moth, Cnephasia etnana sp.n. from
Mount Etna, Sicily, is described. Extemally the new species resembles C. abrasana
(Duponchel, 1843), or forms of C. constantinana Razowski, 1965, or C. korvaci
Razowski, 1965. In male genitalia it is similar to the two last mentioned species,
the differences are in the size of terminal plate of the gnathos (mainly in C.
korvaci) and the smaller aedeagus; from C. abrasana it strongly differs in the
structure of sacculus. The females of C. etnana and C. abrasana are very similar
to one another mainly in the form of the ovipositor and papillae anales which
are slenderer and more simple than in all known species of the subgenus
Cnephasia s.str. inclusive the two compared species.