Tolliella fulguritella

Tolliella fulguritella is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of the splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

Features

The moths reach a wingspan from 17 to 24 millimeters. Shine head and forehead ( frons ) ocher- brown, the antennae are white. Thorax and tegulae shining dark brown. The front wings are dark black-brown and have a white Basalstrich. For casement drawing include three white napkins with irregular edges and serrated. The first is located at 1 /5 of the forewing length and runs from the Costa loader at a slight angle inward until about the anal fold out. The second is located in the wing center and is slightly inclined from the Costa loader until the internal angle. The third is 5 /6 of the forewing length. The two outer bandages are zigzag. The fringe scales are brown. The hind wings shining brown and ocher have Frans shed. The first three segments of the abdomen are yellowish, the remaining segments brown shine.

In the males the right brachium is long and strong and more than three times as long as the left. It is narrow in the middle and apical hook. The left brachium is triangular and has a pointed apex. The Valven are lobed long and weak. The right Valvella is triangular and tapers to. The left Valvella is provided with two short and very long bristles. The aedeagus is bottle-shaped. The cecum penis is large and cylindrical, the distal part is narrow, hairy and widens towards the apex.

In females, the posterior Apophyses are slightly longer than the anterior Apophyses. The ostium is oval, the sterigma is funnel-shaped. The ductus bursae is membranous and slightly shorter than the corpus bursae. The corpus bursae is ovate, the ductus seminalis begins at the rear. Signals are not present.

Similar Species

Tolliella fulguritella similar Eteobalea tririvella and Hodgesiella rebeli, but has a much larger wingspan. Tolliella fulguritella, in contrast to E. tririvella a brown head, pure white bandages on the front wings and the white spot missing on the front wings. Tolliella truncatula was described in 2009 as a new species from China, until then, was the generic Tolliella as monotypic. The new species is similar to T. fulguritella, but differs from it by the absence of short white bar on the front wing base. Before the Apex contrast, there is a large white Costalfleck.

Dissemination

Tolliella fulguritella is in Asia Minor and the Middle East spread (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq).

Biology

The biology of the species is unknown. Moths were collected in July.

System

From the literature, the following synonyms are known:

• Stagmatophora fulguritella Ragonot, 1895
• Limnoecia copidobathra Meyrick, 1936

Documents

• Cosmopterigidae
• Splendor falter