Phrixosceles fibulatrix, Prins & Hartley & Sruoga & Nicholls & Wallace & Zwick, 2025

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 225-226

Phrixosceles fibulatrix Meyrick, 1922

“ Phrixosceles fibulatrix , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1922. Exotic Microlepidoptera (Marlborough) 2 (18): 561. https://www. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808997

Phrixosceles fibulatrix — De Prins & De Prins 2005: 247.

Type locality: Fiji; Cuvu .

Type specimen: Holotype ♀, in NHMUK (London). BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: Unknown.

Distribution: Fiji ( Meyrick 1922: 561).

25. Pogonocephala Vári, 1961

“ Pogonocephala gen. nov. ”—Vári, L., 1961. Transvaal Museum Memoir 12: xvi (key), 50.

Type species: Epicephala veneranda Meyrick, 1909b . Annals of the Transvaal Museum 2: 24; pl. 8, fig. 1, by original designation.

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: Head: labial palpomere II with a long tuft of equally long piliform scales along the entire length of palpomere II (see Vári 1961: plate 107: fig. 11).

Thorax: Wing venation ( Fig. 473). Forewing with very strong slightly angulated Sc, R 1 is long and strong, all five radial veins R 2, R 3, R 4 and R 5 are well developed, strong, single and well visible; M 1, M 2, M 3 and M 4 are present, M 3 and M 4 are slightly bent, followed by CuA; CuP rudimentary at base but strong at distal part, A 1+2 is long, sinuating, strong, ending beyond the mid of dorsal margin. Hindwing with short and strong Sc, which is joined with long strong Rs, running along the entire length of hindwing; M is forked to M 1 and M 2, followed by CuA which is branched to CuA and M 3.

Abdomen: Abdominal cuticle is very strongly sclerotised, sternal apodemes are long, running beyond the tergal apodemes with their apices; sternum VII in males with androconial arc-shaped sclerotised bow.

Male genitalia: Tegumen strongly reduced, very short. Vinculum right and left sides are not fused, an intermediate gap is present between the mirroring sides of vinculum.

Female genitalia: with strongly and fully sclerotised sternum VII, bearing a complex of sterigmatic sclerotisations. Corpus bursae is prolonged sac-shaped, relatively big in diameter, with a transparent wall; signum absent or dispersed into tiny signal scobinations that are arranged into a ring encircling corpus bursae.

BOLD data: https://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxon= Pogonocephala &searchTax= Search+Taxonomy

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: Consistently and strongly recovered as sister of Neurostrota in all analyses ( Fig. 639). Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: Afrotropical region: South Africa: Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga.

Australian region : Australia: Queensland, Western Australia, new record .

Species richness: World: 2 species; Australian region: 1 species.

Type species: Pogonocephala veneranda ( Meyrick, 1909b)

“ Epicephala veneranda , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1909b. Transvaal Museum Memoir 2(1): 24–25; pl. 8, fig. 1.

Type locality and collecting data: [ South Africa, Gauteng], Pretoria District, Beynespoort , 14.i.1907 .

Type specimens: Holotype ♀, genitalia slide G7235 ♀, in TMSA (Pretoria) ; Paratype 1♀, NHMUK (London). Verified specimen : ♂, genitalia slide G7637 ♂, in TMSA (Pretoria) .

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: Unknown.

Distribution: Afrotropical region: South Africa: Gauteng ( Meyrick 1909b: 25), Limpopo, Mpumalanga ( Vári 1961: 52).

Australian species