Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 57. (Budapest 1965)
Gozmány, L.: Tineid moths collected by Dr. Szunyoghy in Tanganyika in 1960 (Lepidoptera)
Tineid Moths Collected by Dr. J. Szunyoghy in Tanganyika in 1960 (Lepidoptera) By L. A GOZMÁNY, Budapest DR. J. SZUNYOGHY, Keeper of Mammals of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, participated in a Hungarian zoological expedition, hunting big game in Tanganyika, in January - March, 1960. While working in the evenings and part of the nights at his numerous research tasks, J. SZUNYOGHY still found time to collect, at my request, also the small moths which flew to his lamp in the camp. Most of the moths belonged, of course, to a variety of families, but a rather considerable number of specimens belonging to the family Tineidae were also caught. The specimens have been papered and preserved in very good condition, and later mounted and set in Budapest. The material was collected in three camps in the savanna region of Tanganyika, namely Nata, Arusha, and Seronera. The identification of the collected specimens is as follows. Ceratophaga PETERSEN, 1957 Ceratophaga lichmodes (MEYRICK, 1921) comb. n. Since the species was based on a single male specimen (Tinea lichmodes n. sp., Ann. Transv. Mus., 1921, p. 130), and as displayed by the series at my disposal this animal has a rather wide latitude of variation as to colour and pattern, I submit here a more extensive description. Head, thorax, scapulae, anal tuft deep ochreous, head occasionally shaded with rufous, collar with deep brown. Fore wing ochreous with a slight golden yellowish tinge, shoulder margined dark brown from base to 1 / 4 . One female specimen with a strong purple suffusion, from base to apex and from costa of cell to nearly dorsum ; thus ochreous basic color restricted merely to costal area. This purplish suffusion present in various extense and depth on most specimens, but it can also be entirely absent as witnessed by one animal and the type-specimen. Cilia as basic colour. Hind wing medium to dark grey; cilia light yellowish ochreous. Antennae dark fuscous, abdomen light fuscous dorsally. Male genital organ (fig. 1.): uncus and gnathos large, elongated; tegumen and vinculum relatively broad ; valvae broadly spoon-shaped and hardly curved apically, without any distinguishable process; base of saccus very wide and high, saccus strong. Aedoeagus straight also basally, mantica expressed, penis with long rows of small, spiniform cornuti. Female genital organ (fig. 2.): ostium highly sclerotized, V-shaped, mtroitus chalyciform, ductus bursae relatively narrow, strongly sclerotized to almost bursa, bursa sacculiform, without signa. The species stands nearest to C. xanthastis (MEYRICK, 1908), described from the Transvaal, but its valva bears a circular, slightly raised area medially, and its aedeagus is curved
