Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 57. (Budapest 1965)
Gozmány, L.: Tineid moths collected by Dr. Szunyoghy in Tanganyika in 1960 (Lepidoptera)
Externally, the species are highly similar to each other, the pattern represented by two oblique striae across fore wings (one at 1 / 4 , and one at 2 / 3 , to middle of dorsum and tornus, respectively) ; basic color yellowish, pattern brownish. Scalidomia horriuella (WALKER, 1863). — A single male specimen from Arusha, 18 February (gen. prep. 1421). Exotaxa estimata sp. n. — Alar expanse: 20—24 mm. Face, labial palpi inside yellowish; vertex, nape, collar, scapulae, thorax, labial palpi outside dark fuscous with some yellow scales, caudal portion of thorax yellowish, with 3 erect bunches of fuscous scales (one in middle and one each on both sides) ; fore wing light yellowish with some reddish-brown irroration: pattern dark fuscous: base, costa from base to 1 / 3 , first oblique stripe from 2 / 3 to middle of dorsum, second stripe (even more oblique) from J / 4 to behind tornus, irregular dark spots at base of cilia around apex: oblique stripes backed in cell and fold as well as on dorsum by erect bunches of blackish and yellowish scales, characteristic also of Hapsifera Z. and other allied genera. Cilia yellowish, basally with numerous fuscous scales and two blackish lines: in middle and apically. Hind wing greyish yellow, veins darker, cilia yellowish, with a broad basal stripe. Male genital organ (Fig. 8): uncus, tegumen as in Hapsifera Z., gnathos arms highly sclerotized, fused apically, there extended laterally into a sharp, recurving, horn-like process ventrally and a horizontal, recumbent portion dorsally; valvae rather narrow, mantica fused to transtillae, aedeagus relatively short, attenuating apically, almost straight, saccus very small. Female genital organ (Fig. 9.) : introitus vaginae very narrow, genital plates with V-shaped scrobiculate band and a large, circular blotch dorsally, plates finely hairy, ductus simple, narrow, almost without any transition into elongate bursa without any signum. The new species differs from its nearest ally, Exotaxa platyloxa (MEYRICK, 1930) ( — Hapsifera burgeoni GHESQUIERE, 1942 ; syn. nov), by the shorter aedeagus, shorter saccus, and the quite differently shaped gnathos. Type material: holotype: „Arusha, B. E. Africa, Tanganyika, 3. III. 1960 (gen. prep. 1882)"; 14 paratypes from Ethiopia, collected by Ö. KOVÁCS (III. 1912, Marako; 19. II. 1911, Dire-Daua), R. E. ELLISON (21. 3. 1938, Harrar), F. SCHÄUFFELE (3 males, 1 female, gen. prep. 1949, 1963, from 11. 1958, 1900 m, Kaffa), and W. RICHTER (6 males, from 5-29. I. 1960, Jimma, 1779 m., and 4-12. II. 1960, Jerga Alem, and 10. 4. 1960, 1610 m, Konso), respectively. The types are deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum and W. RICHTER'S Collection in Stuttgart, Germany. The species seems to be distributed at higher elevations in NE Africa (Ethiopia), probably reaching its southern limits in the hilly regions of Tanganyika. Autochthonus WALSINGHAM, 1891 The genus was based on a single female specimen, and the taxon had not been met with since the time of its description. FLETCHER (1929) considered it as a synonym of HapsiferaZ., but it was found now, by the fortunate capture of a male specimen by J. SZUNYOGHY, that the genus is distinct and valid. Autochthonus chalybiellus WLSM. The male genital organ (Fig. 10), and thus also the genus, are characterized by a low tegumen with a small, bifid uncus and erect, narrow, nearly adpressed gnathos, compact, broad and simple valvae, narrow and small vinculum (yet high and sinuous ventrally), a strongly sclerotized and very long, rod-like saccus, and similar but membraneous aedoeagus with extremely small cornuti. The single male specimen was caught in Nata, 18. II. 1960 (gen. prep. 1796).
