Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 8. (Budapest 1957)

Gozmány, L.: Notes on the generic group Symmoca Hbn. (Lep. Gelechiidae)

large appendages on valva, the dorsal being slightly bent inwards, the costal straight, of 2/3 of costa ; aedeagus blunt, bent, with two strong cornuti (gen. prep. 128, holotype). Externally it stands nearest to other large and darkly colored species of the group (a dark atricanella Rbl., or maybe a pleostigmella Rbl.), but is easily separated from all of them. Holotype male : „Hispánia, Prov. Madrid, Escorial, VIII. 1923, leg. Schmidt" ; paratype : same data, but IX 1923, as also the allotype female. The three type specimens are in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Fig. 3. — Male genital crgans. A : Symmoca caliginella Mn., B • S. signella Hbn., C : S. uniformella Rbl., D : S. obliterata Wlsghm., E : S. nigromaculella Rag. (— tofosella Rbl., — ponerias Wlsghm.), F : S. cinerariella Mn. (— trinacriella Car.), G : S. orphnella Rbl., H : S. vitiosella Z., I : S. signatella HS. (— melitensis Amsel), J : S. sparsella Joann. albicanella Zeller 1868. Male organ with a short and straight, medially placed costal appendage which separates it from caliginella Mn., and signella Hbn. Orphnella Rbl. also has a longer costal appendage, whilst those of angustipennis Rbl., and cedestiella Z. are otherwise construed. Gen. prep. 67, „Fiume, an Mauermoos, Zucht, 22. V. leg. Krone" (Fig. 5 : C). alhambrella Walsingham 1911. The dorsal appendage of the male organ with a blunt external and a sharp internal lobe ; separated from atricanella Rbl., by the presence of a costal appendage, whilst the heads of the dorsal appendages of cryptogamarum Mill., virginella Rbl., and sericiellaWlsghm, are differently constructed and have no or but very small costal appendages. Gen. prep. 8, Symmoca, made by T a m s of the type (fig. 6 : A). atricanella Rebel 1906. The dorsal appendage has two sharp tips and no costal appendage which distinguishes it from the above cited related species;