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

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

Generotype : cryptogamarum Mill. cryptogamarum Milliere 1872. Male gential organ distinguished by the dorsal appendage following the direction of the valva, its head drawn out into two sharp and recurved points. That of atricanella Rbl. is longer, with no costal lobe ; that of virginella Rbl., larger ; of sericiella Wlsghm., with a medially situated costal lobe. Gen. prep. 100, Alpes maritimes, leg. Constant, coll. Eppelsheim, coll. Krone (Fig. 6 : D). designatella Herrich—Schäffer 1855. Its dorsal appendage with a bent, long, sharp tip, not reaching costa. Those of scotinella Rbl., undecimpunctella Mn., and epenthetica Meyr. are not so sharply bent, with smaller tips. Gen. prep. 89, Croatia, Zengg, 8. VII. 1918, leg. Dobiasch (fig. 6: B). syriacella Ragonot 1895. Its dorsal appendage is very long, recurved, terminating in the middle of the valva, its point aciculate. Its dorsal line more or less follows the dorsum of the valva. Not to be mixed up with any of the related species. Gen. prep. 3421 by P. V i e 11 e, original type, Hte. Syrie, Akbés (Fig. 9 : D). teciaphella Rebel 1916. Its male genital organ is like that of sparsella Joann., but the dorsal appendage is longer and sharper. Externally it is more indistinct and darker than the always distinct sparsella Joann. There is a possibility, however, that it is an insular subspecies of the other, though the coincidence of veins m

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x seems to warrant a too strong case of subspecicifation. Gen. prep. 116, Creta, Kristallenia, Ende VI, 1904. leg. Rebel, holotype (fig. 6 : C). Fig. 4. — Male genital organs. A : Symmoca mobilella Zy., B : S. petrogenes Wlsghm. (— hispanella Rbl.), C : S. canariensis Rbl., D : S. oenophila Stgr. & Wcke., E : S. pleostigmella Rbl., F : S. muricella Chrét., G : S. longipalpella Rbl., H : S. calidella Wlsghm., I : S. dodecatella Stgr., J : S. pyrrhella Rag. (— zeitunella Rbl.).