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

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

Hapsifera revoluta MEYRICK, 1914. (= Hapsifera arithmetis MEYRICK, 1933, Exot, Microl., 4, p. 414) syn. nov. — A series of 18 specimens from Arusha, between 3 and 11 March (gen. prep. 1308, 1323, and 1324). A common and widely distributed species in East Africa. Hapsifera hilaris sp. n. — Alar expanse: 20—35 mm. Head, antennae, labial palpi, scapulae, thorax light greyish yellow, labial palpi, scapulae and thorax usually with a dense irroration of dark fuscous. Basic color of fore wing light greyish yellow, pattern dark fuscous to blackish: a spot on shoulder, a larger blotch at 1

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, forming an obliquely transversal stripe with two spots in cell and fold, 3 other spots on costa, folFig. 6. Hapsifera hilaris sp. n., holotype, male, ventrally (everted), gen. prep. 1974.— Fig. 7. Hapsifera hilaris sp. n., paratype, female, laterovenlrally, part of ductus and bursa removed, gen. prep. 1973. lowed by 3 further elongated spots in cilia and one in apex, a costally concave stripe from third costal spot to second spot in cilia, its bottom slightly above tornus, 3 spots in cilia along termen and one in tornus, one at end of fold and discoidal double spots in concave stripe. Transversally spots backed by light, erect scales. Cilia concolorous with wing, bearing numerous fuscous scales. Hind wing medium grey, coarsely scaled ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen shiny, yellowish. Male genital organ (Fig. 6.): gnathos-arms narrow, ribbon-shaped, slowly attenuating to truncate apex, involuted ; saccus wide, high, subtriangular ; aedeagus large, wide, basally bulbous, apically with two recurved barbs (sagittate). Female genital organ (Fig. 7.); hairs of genital plates long, introitus vaginae chalycoid, truncate, ductus smooth, hardly sclerotized, proximally narrow, distally widening then again narrowing to bursa, without any signum (!).