Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Gozmány, L.: A tineid moths from Ghana, West Africa (I.)

process ; embraced apical margin deeply excised into a wide saddle ; ventro-proximal, rounded corner of valva with a circular batch of strong bristles; uncus-arms twice bent: slender basally, conduplicate medially and flattening apically into a square lobe (bearing strong bristles directed ventrad) terminating in a fine, sharp, extrorse tooth: both lobes in juxtaposition but facing in opposite directions: aedoeagus a long, truncate, straight tube of characteristical affixture to inner wall of ventrally narrower, dorsally wider, annular vinculum (Fig. 6). Fig. 6. Male genual cigan cf EjA6<aráia cndrcetiyi i-p. n., ventrally, Paraiype, gen. prep. 2516. The great number of Episcardia taxa known from the Ethiopian Region are externally highly similar to each other, hence the species can be delimited only by the structure of the genital organs. The new species resembles, as to valval shape, effulgens GOZMÁNY, 1965 (Acta Zool. Ac. Sei. Hung., 11, p. 273, Fig. 24), but the uncus of this latter is entirely different, whilst ensigera GOZMÁNY, 1966 (Acta Zool. Ac. Sei. Hung., 12, p. 66—67) has a narrow vinculum also dorsally, and the uncus, though at the first glance similar, is shaped like a broadsword and carries no bristles. Holotvpe male: 7, gen. prep. 2526; 4 other male Paratypes: from 7, 8, 10 (gen. prep. 2516, 2525, 2527, 2535). I dedicate the new species to DR. S. ENDRŐDY-YOTJNGA, coleopterist and esteemed friend, the collector of the valuable material. Morophaga HERRICH-SCHÄFFER, 1853 (Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europa, 5, 7, p. 22) Syn.: Atabyria SNELLEN, 1884 (Tijdschr. Ent., 22, p. 164—166); Microscardia AMSEL, 1951 (Fragm. ent., 1, p. 139); Osphretica MEYRICK, 1910 (Trans, ent. Soc. London, p. 475). 8. Morophaga soror GOZMÁNY, 1965 (Acta Zool. Ac. Sei. Hung. 11, p. 281). A male specimen of this widely distributed taxon; it is now known from Ghana, Natal, Belgian Congo, South Africa. The data are: 11, gen. prep. 2537. Scalidomia WALSINGHAM, 1891 (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 83) 2 9 Természettudományi Múzeumi Êvk. 1966.