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

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

Paehypsaltis MEYRICK, 1914 Pachypsaltis megalopa MEYRICK, 1915. — The genus, established for a Forinosan species, includes also two African taxa, one of which, caught also by J. Szr \ \ OGII Y, is widely distributed in Eastern Africa. Three male specimens were collected in Nata (27. II. 1960) and Seronera (28. II. 1960, gen. prep. 1443 and 1976). Theatrista MEYRICK, 1917 (= Pectitinea AMSEL, 1953, Bull. Inst. fr. Afr. noire, 15, p. 1451 — 1452), syn. nov. Theatrista szunyoghyi sp. n. — Alar expanse: 15—18 mm. Head, antennae and thorax black, face and brush of labial palpi yellowish; basic colour of fore wing white, pattern black and leaden-silvery, rather complicated: a black area from l

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2 of costa, enveloping also base and thus leaving only a large, triangular space, white, bordered distally by a black, oblique stripe from 2

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2 of termen and backed extensively by a leaden-silvery quadrangular area (carrying 3 erect leaden-silvery tufts of scales, immediately backed by a white one in cell and another one in fold basally; these two latter situated already in white area), apical area again white with a large, circular black blotch in apex; cilia two rows of silvery leaden scales. Hind wing white with hardly any greyish shade; cilia yellowish. Abdomen yellowish grey, anal tuft whitish. Fig. 10. Autochthonus chalybiellus WALSINGHAM, 1891, male, ventro-laterally, aedoeag, gen. prep. 1796. Fig. 11. Theatrista szunyoghyi Sp. n., holotype, male, laterally, right valva ally, gen. prep.182a.