Jordanita syriaca
Jordanita syriaca is a butterfly of the family of burnet ( Zygaenidae ).
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Features
The moths reach a forewing length 10.4 to 11.0 mm in males and 10.5 mm in females. Head, thorax and abdomen shining metallic green, the legs are bluish green. The forehead ( frons ) is almost twice as wide as the eye. The sensors consist of 35-36 segments, shimmering blue or bluish green. They have a very strong stem. The combing extends to the probe tip, the last three segments are very short double- combed. The front upper wing surface is scaly green and dense. It shimmers just weak. The hind wings are gray and slightly translucent. The wing undersides are gray.
In the male the ventral Valve extension is missing. The ventral edge Valve is provided with short spine-like teeth and is projected to the point where otherwise the extension is configured something. The Vinculum has a strongly sclerotized rectangular Saccusplatte. The aedeagus has an everted bladder ventrolateral provided with slender spines. A small, proximally situated and a great, Distad to the spines befindlicher area is studded with tiny, triangular needles. The 8th Abdominalsternit trapezoidal distal strongly lobed and extends beyond the rear edge.
In females, the ostium is broad and ovate, the margins are strongly sclerotized. The antrum is wide. The proximal part of the ductus bursae is sclerotized broad and strong. The distal portion is translucent, narrow and strongly curved. The corpus bursae is spherical.
Similar Species
A similar type is Jordanita graeca, but the males are distinguished by the more slender distally eighth sternite and the less bent, doppellappigen rear edge. J. syriaca and the similar style can be distinguished genitalmorphologisch and have different distribution areas.
Jordanita anatolica is in Syria, Lebanon and Israel the only type with a similar habit. It's darker, body and front wing tops shimmer less intense. Males and females can be distinguished genitalmorphologisch in both species.
Small specimens of Adscita obscura sometimes resemble J. syriaca. The antennae of the males, however, are club-shaped and 7 to 10 segments at the top are in flake form. In females, the probe shaft is thicker distally. Both types can be distinguished genitalmorphologisch.
Dissemination
Jordanita syriaca comes in Syria, in Lebanon and in Israel.
Biology
About the biology of the species is so far not known.