Callima cretensis, Berggren & Aarvik, 2024

Berggren, Kai & Aarvik, Leif, 2024, Callima icterinella (Mann, 1867) comb. nov. (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae), a complex consisting of seven species, Norwegian Journal of Entomology 71 (1), pp. 95-108 : 103-105

Callima cretensis sp. n.

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HOLOTYPE ♀, GREECE: Chania Province , Kolymbari, 35.54593 oN, 23.77626 oE, 40 m. a.s.l., 12.V.2022, GP NHMO 4275 , leg. K. Berggren & L. Aarvik, coll. NHMO.

PARATYPES, GREECE: Chania Province , Kolymbari, 35.54593 oN, 23.77626 oE, 40 m. a.s.l ., 12. V .2022 , 3♂♂ 1♀, coll. NHMO; ditto 5♂♂, 1♀, coll. KBE; ditto, but 8. V .2022 , 1♂, coll. NHMO; ditto, 1♂, coll. KBE; Chania Province, Kolymbari, 35.53595 oN, 23.80096 oE, 4 m. a.s.l ., 12. V .2022 , 2♂♂, leg. K. Berggren & L. Aarvik, coll. NHMO; 30. V .2023 , 1♂, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Chania Province, Kolymbari, 35.537363 oN, 23.798129 oE, 4 m. a.s.l ., 31. V .2023 , 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; the same data as holotype , 30. V.–13. VI .2023 , 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Chania Province, Zounaki, 86 m. a.s.l., 35.481792 oN, 23.828388 oE , 30. V.–13. VI .2023 , 6♂♂ 2♀♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; ditto, 1♂, coll. RVO; Chania Province, Sougia 35.26429 oN, 23.81097 oE, 40 m. a.s.l ., 1. VI .2023 , 1♂, 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Chania Province, Sempronas, 35.38184 oN, 23.81250 oE, 610 m. a.s.l ., 9. VI .2023 , 1♂, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; ditto, 2♂♂, coll. RVO; Chania Province, Rodopos, 2 km N, 35.583288 oN, 23.752410 oE, 400 m. a.s.l ., 7. VI .2023 , 1♂, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Chania Province, Agia, 35.47482 oN, 23.93231 oE, 44 m. a.s.l ., 2. VI .2023 , 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Chania Province, Pirgos, 35.36087 oN, 23.830266 oE, 805 m. a.s.l ., 3. VI .2023 , 1♂, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. RVO; Rethymnon Province, Plakias S, 35.180531 oN, 24.401345 oE, 13 m. a.s.l ., 10. VI .2023 , 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith , coll. KBE; Rethymnon Province, Agios Vasilios, 35.234867 oN, 24.414050 oE, 396 m. a.s.l ., 10. VI .2023 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. K. Berggren & R. Voith, coll. KBE; Chania Province , Plaka, 35.448149 oN, 24.214574 oE, 135 m. a.s.l., 2010, 3♂♂, leg. R . Voith , coll. RVO; Chania Province, Imbros, 35.2203 oN, 24.1629 oE, 780 m. a.s.l ., 17. VI .2010 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. L. Aarvik, GP ♂ NHMO 4274 , coll. NHMO; Iraklion Province , Fodele a. Pandom., 40 m. a.s.l ., 25. V .2000 , 3♂♂ 4♀♀ (DNA Barcode IDs TLMF Lep 30418, TLMF Lep 30475), leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; ditto, but 100 m. a.s.l., 1♂ 1♀ (DNA Barcode ID TLMF Lep 30476); ditto, but 10 m. a.s.l., 1♂; Chania Province, Kirtomados a. Xekollimenos, 20– 70 m.a.s.l ., 8. V .2000 , 5♂♂ 6♀♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; ditto, but 20 m. a.s.l ., 17. V .2003 , 1♀ (DNA Barcode ID TLMF Lep 28279); Chania Province , Patellari a. Xekolliomenos, 20 m, 17. VI .1997 , 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; Chania Province , Platanias, 20 m. a.s.l ., 17. V .2003 , 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; Chania Province , Patellari a. Xekolimenos, 20 m. a.s.l ., 16. VI .1997 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; ditto, but 18. VI.1997, 1♀; Chania Province, Omalos, südl. Wald, 1250 m.a.s.l., 6.VII.2010, 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF ; Chania Province , Omalos nördl. Wald, 1100 m.a.s.l ., 5.VII.2010, 1♂, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF ; Lasithiou Province , Vrahasi b. Neapoli, 300 m. a.s.l ., 11. VI .1997 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; Lasithiou Province , Agia Joannis b. Koutsounari, 390 m. a.s.l ., 19. V .2000 , 1♀, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; Rethymnon Province , Agia Galini, O-Strand, 5 m. a.s.l ., 14. VI .1997 , 1♂, leg. W. Ruckdeschel, coll. TLMF; Iraklion Province , Zaros 5. VI .1988 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. R. Johansson, coll. ZMUC ; Chania Province , Omalos, 1040 m.a.s.l ., 14–20. VI .2014 , 1♂ 1♀, leg. C. Hviid, O. Karsholt, F. Vilhelmsen, GP KBE ♂ 15138, GP KBE ♀ 15141, coll. ZMUC ; Chania Province , Skines , 5–11. VI .2004 , 1♂, leg. B. Skule, C. Hviid & E. Vesterhede, coll. ZMUC; Chania , 2 km S Fourne 250 m. a.s.l ., 6. VI .2004 , 1♀, leg. B. Skule, C. Hviid & E. Vesterhede, GP KBE 15143 , coll. ZMUC.

Diagnosis ( Figure 6 ). Callima cretensis sp. n. can be separated from the other species of the complex by its black forewing pattern, by the widened termination of the phallus in the male genitalia, and by the broad antrum in the female genitalia.

Description. Wingspan 11.0–18.5 mm. Head dark grey, shiny; labial palp segment 1 and 2 blackish externally, inner side grey except few whitish scales terminally on segment 2; segment 3 white, with black ring in middle; flagellum upper side black, becoming greyish towards tip, indistinctly ringed. Thorax and tegulae yellow. Forewing dark pattern blackish, narrowly edged with white; dorsal dark blotch broad along wing margin, connected with costal suffusion and median dark fascia, causing isolation of median yellow blotch; ochreous brown streak inside costal suffusion; ochreous brown suffusion below median yellow blotch and inside median dark fascia; white band present along inner margin of sub-terminal fascia; cilia ochreous, darker basally. Hindwing with cilia dark grey. Foreleg dark blackish brown, tarsus with white rings; mid- and hindleg dark brown with white rings on tarsi.

Male genitalia ( Figure 13 ). Valva narrower towards tip, dorsum convex, its sclerotized margin extending beyond middle; juxta lobes relatively broad; phallus relatively long, strongly widened at termination.

Female genitalia ( Figure 19 ). Antrum broad, extending to anterior margin of segment 7, anterior termination straight. Signum shaped as an irregular wide V.

Distribution. Greece: Crete.

Etymology. Named after the Greek island, Crete, where it appears to be endemic.

Remarks. Rebel (1916) recorded this species from Crete as Borkhausenia icterinella and wrote (translated from German): «I obtained the species in numbers in the beginning of June in a bushy resting place near Neapolis».

Three paratypes from Kolymbari were DNAbarcoded and gave full length sequences : ♀ KBE 2022060, NLON 1230-23 ; ♂ KBE 2022061, NLON 1231-23 ; ♂ Nor _ Crete _2022136, BGE 00221_C12, all coll. KBE. The species received BIN code, BOLD: AFH3063 .

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FIGURES 4–10. Adults of Callima. 4. C. icterinella from Greece: Delfi. 5. C. libanotica sp. n. Paratype from Syria: Batroun. 6. C. cretensis sp. n. Paratype from Greece: Crete, Kolymbari. 7. C. levantina sp. n. Paratype from Greece: Samos. 8. C. klimeschi sp. n. Holotype from Greece: Rhodos. 9. C. kos sp. n. Paratype from Greece: Kos. 10. C. africana sp. n. Paratype from Zimbabwe: Chirinda Forest. Photos: K. Berggren (Figures 4, 5,7,8, 9) and K. Sund (Figures 6, 10).

FIGURES 11–14. Male genitalia of Callima. 11. C. icterinella GP KBE 15137. 12. Paratype C. libanotica sp. n. GP KBE 15224. 13. Paratype C. cretensis sp. n. GP KBE 15657. 14. Paratype C. levantina sp. n. GP KBE 15158.

FIGURES 17–20. Female genitalia of Callima. Signa in separate frames. 17. C. icterinella GP KBE 15144. 18. Paratype C. libanotica sp. n. GP KBE 15231. 19. Paratype C. cretensis sp. n. GP KBE 15143. 20. Paratype C. levantina sp. n. GP KBE 15140.