Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 52. (Budapest 1960)
Gozmány, L.: The results of the zoological collecting trip to Egypt in 1957, of the Natural History Museum, Budapest. 8. Egyptian Microlepidoptera II.
Fig. 4 : A. Male genital organ (right valva omitted) of Cosmopteryx superba sp. n., ventrally •— B. Left upper wing of Acrocercops imperfecta sp. n. — C. Male genital organ of Tischeria noviciata sp. n., ventrally. Cosmopteryx superba sp. n. Alar exp.: 8—9 mm. Face, vertex a light greyish brown ; labial palpi whitish, with a narrow 7 blackish stripe ; antennae greyish brown, with two adjacent white rings at 4/5 and one other just before terminal joint. Fore wing a dark greyish brown with following pattern : 3 silvery violaceous longitudinal streaks on basal area : costal being shortest (leaving costa to turn inwards into basal area), dorsal being longest (from base to 1/2 of wing), here a black transversal band (1 row of scales deep), followed by a broad (4 scales deep) silvery gold band, then a black spot in cell and within broad orange transversal band (widest on costa, narrowest on dorsum), bordered by some few black scales terminad, and breaking through adjacent silvery gold band (this again bordered externally by some black scales), to end in a broken, narrow silvery wdiite line in apex of dark ground color. Ciliae of ground color, except a white, subtriangular wedge (or line) at outer golden band on costa. Hind wings with ciliae dark grey. Abdomen dark, first 4 segments with washed-out orange spots above, next segments dark with whitish edges. Legs blackish, femur with long wdiite streak laterally, joints with white ends, spurs white. Concerning pattern, it belongs to the scribaiella Z. group, yet this is almost twice as large, its antennae white at the tips. Flavipes Trti. is related to the w r hollv differently marked eximia Haw. Salahinella Chrét. has an antenna ringed throughout dark, its median band not orange ; crassicervicella Chrét. disposes of a wholly dark antenna. It stands nearest, however, to flavojascilata Woll., from the Canary Islands, and can be best distinguished from it by the following characteristics : flavofasciata Woll. has an even broader orange band than scribaiella Z., whilst that of superba Gozm. is narrower than that of scribaiella Z., also the annulation of the antennae, though similar, is decidedly different. Counting from the extreme tip of the antenna, it is ringed as follows in flavofasciata Woll.: 1. joint black, 2—3. white, 4—7. black, 8. white, 9. black, 10. white ; while in superba Gozm.: 1—2. joints black, 3—4. white, 5—9. black, 10. white, 11. black, 12. white. Male genital organ : gnathos assymmetrical, left one a small double thorn, right one a large, erect hook, uncus absent, valvula verv narrow, valva large, boot-like, aedoeagus bulbous (fig. 4 : A). Holotype male : "Sohag, Egypt, 19 Oct. 1957, leg. Dr. Gozmány, gen. prep. 1183" ; Paratype (without abdomen) : Sids, Egypt, 14 Oct. leg. Dr. Gozmány. In the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum.
