Pleurota malagaensis Tabell & Nupponen, 2025

Tabell, Jukka, Honey, Martin, Leger, Théo, Mutanen, Marko, Nupponen, Timo & Sihvonen, Pasi, 2025, New and poorly known Pleurota Hübner, [1825] species from peninsular Spain, the Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae, Pleurotinae), SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 53 (209), pp. 43-74 : 55

Pleurota malagaensis Tabell & Nupponen , sp. nov. ( Figures 22 , 38) Barcode Index Number: BOLD:-

Type material. Holotype ♂ (GP 5589 J. Tabell): SPAIN, Málaga, Fuengirola, 22-V-1989, H. Holmberg leg., Coll. T. & K. Nupponen. Paratypes: 2 ♂, same collecting data as holotype (colls. NUP and TAB) .

Diagnosis: Externally P. malagaensis can be distinguished by a small size, pale brown forewing with scattered brown scales and a narrow white costal stripe, and a short 3 rd segment of labial palpus. In the male genitalia, the characteristic shape of uncus and gnathos are diagnostic. The female is unknown.

Molecular diagnosis: Barcodes not available.

Description: Adult. Wing 5.5-6.5 mm (not spread). Labial palpus mixed with white, pale brown and brown, about 5x as long as diameter of the eye (1 st and 2 nd segments), 3 rd segment 0.15x length of 1 st and 2 nd segments. Antenna annulated with dark brown and pale brown, apex dark brown. Frontal tuft, neck, tegula and thorax mixed with white and pale brown. Forewing pale brown with faint white streaks, scattered with brown and dark brown scales; costal line white, from base to near apex; subcostal line pale brown, darker at basal half, slightly expanded towards apex. Fringe white, fringe line pale brown. Hindwing not visible.

Male genitalia: Uncus inverted funnel-shaped from ventral view, lined with few long bristles, apex sharp. Gnathos 1.7x as long as uncus, broad, arm long, fluke-shaped from ventral view, medially and apically covered with small nodules, apical part triangular, apex blunt. Valva upwards oblique, ventral margin convex; cucullus club-shaped. Median part of juxta rounded, posterior lobe narrow, exceeding apex of uncus, apex armed with small tooth. Valval lobe small, club-shaped, covered with several long bristles. Phallus curved, tapered towards apex, apex sharp, with elongated bundle of small cornuti, apical 1 / 7 with small spines dorsally.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Biology: Unknown.

Distribution: Known only from the southernmost Spain in the province of Andalusia.

Derivation of name: The specific epithet refers to the collecting area of the specimens.

Figures

Figures 22-26. Adults of Pleurota spp. 22. P. malagaensis sp. nov., 1 holotype. 23. P. grancanariella sp. nov., 1 holotype. 24-26. P. subnobilella sp. nov. 24. 1 holotype. 25. 1 paratype. 26. 0 paratype.