Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 99. (Budapest 2007)
Kun, A.: Studies on Palaearctic Ethmia Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)
MATERIAL Most of the material examined in this study was either collected recently (since 2000) or since 1967, but has remained hidden as unidentified accessory material. The following codens indicate collections in which the specimens investigated are deposited: BMNH = British Museum (Natural History), London; FMNH = Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki; HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; Landesmuseum Karlsruhe; NRM = Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm; MFN = Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; MNHN = Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; NHMV = Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien; RMCA = Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren; SMTK = Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Karlsruhe; ZMUC = The Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen; ZSM = Zoologische Staatssammlung, München. TAXONOMIC PART Ethmia persica sp. n. (Figs 1-10, 12) Type material - Holotype: male, "Iran, Prov. Buyer Ahmad, 3 km N of Sisaht, 2700 m, 51°23'21"E, 31°09'22" N, 10-12. V. 1998, leg. Gy. Fábián & K. Székely."; KUN Slide No. 200. The holotype is deposited in coll. HNHM. Paratypes, deposited in HNHM: 2 females, from the same locality as the holotype, KUN Slide Nos 202, 215. Paratypes, deposited in NRM: 1 male, "20/3", slide No. SATTLER 615b (E. M. slide No. 6414); 1 female, "20/3, Iran, Fars, 1937, Strasse Kazeroun-Bouchir, Tchouroum, 1000 m, leg. Brandt", KUN Slide No. 416. Description - Habitus: Fig. 1. Wingspan 20-22 mm. Antenna filiform, scape and basal segments with white scales; flagellum white; maxillary palpus reduced. Labial palpus with white scales; base of proboscis with white scales; frons and vertex similarly white. Thorax bright grey with two pairs of black dots with one dot apical; tegulae greyish. Costal half of forewing suffused with darker grey; basal half overlaid with three black spots, both of them placed along borderline between darker costal and paler inner half of wing, black marginal dots present, tiny; cilia bright grey. Hindwing grey, with grey cilia; costal brushes absent. Forelegs, midlegs and hindlegs grey. Abdomen greyish white. Male genitalia (Fig. 10): uncus developed, hood-like, apically pointed, with medial indenture. Posterior part of gnathos broad, anterior part modified, with two long processes bearing long bristles. The base of the anterior part of gnathos joined with anellus, anellus hardly visible, labis elongate with widened apical part. Valva long, pointed, with bristles; costal part sclerotized. Cucullus broad at base, tapering apically into pointed apex; covered with scattered, fine bristles. Sacculus with characteristic sclerotised basal fold. Vinculum V-shaped. Aedeagus gun-shaped, without cornuti. Female genitalia (Fig. 12): ovipositor conical, papillae anales with sparse, fine setae and rounded apices. Apophyses posteriores half as long as papillae anales, apophyses anteriores absent. Ductus bursae long, membranous, tubular, with several coils.
