Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 57. (Budapest 1965)

Gozmány, L.: Tineid moths collected by Dr. Szunyoghy in Tanganyika in 1960 (Lepidoptera)

Paehypsaltis MEYRICK, 1914 Pachypsaltis megalopa MEYRICK, 1915. — The genus, established for a Forinosan species, includes also two African taxa, one of which, caught also by J. Szr \ \ OGII Y, is widely distrib­uted in Eastern Africa. Three male specimens were collected in Nata (27. II. 1960) and Se­ronera (28. II. 1960, gen. prep. 1443 and 1976). Theatrista MEYRICK, 1917 (= Pectitinea AMSEL, 1953, Bull. Inst. fr. Afr. noire, 15, p. 1451 — 1452), syn. nov. Theatrista szunyoghyi sp. n. — Alar expanse: 15—18 mm. Head, antennae and thorax black, face and brush of labial palpi yellowish; basic colour of fore wing white, pattern black and leaden-silvery, rather complicated: a black area from l j 4 of dorsum to more than 1 / 2 of costa, enveloping also base and thus leaving only a large, trian­gular space, white, bordered distally by a black, oblique stripe from 2 / 3 of costa to 1 / 2 of termen and backed extensively by a leaden-silvery quadrangular area (carrying 3 erect leaden-silvery tufts of scales, immediately backed by a white one in cell and another one in fold basally; these two latter situated already in white area), apical area again white with a large, circular black blotch in apex; cilia two rows of silvery leaden scales. Hind wing white with hardly any greyish shade; cilia yellowish. Abdo­men yellowish grey, anal tuft whitish. Fig. 10. Autochthonus chalybiellus WALSINGHAM, 1891, male, ventro-laterally, aedoeag, gen. prep. 1796. Fig. 11. Theatrista szunyoghyi Sp. n., holotype, male, laterally, right valva ally, gen. prep.182a.

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