Jordanita syriaca
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Jordanita syriaca is a butterfly fromthe ram family (Zygaenidae).
features
The moths reach a forewing length of 10.4 to 11.0 millimeters in the males and 10.5 millimeters in the females. The head, thorax and abdomen have a metallic green shimmer, the legs are bluish green. The forehead ( frons ) is almost twice as wide as the eyes. The antennae consist of 35 to 36 segments and shimmer blue or bluish green. They have a very strong shaft. The comb extends to the tip of the probe, with the last three segments being very briefly double-combed. The top of the forewings is green and densely scaled. It only shimmers faintly. The hind wings are gray and slightly translucent . The undersides of the wings are gray.
The males lack the ventral valve process. The ventral edge of the valve is provided with short spike-like teeth and protrudes somewhat at the point where the extension is otherwise formed. The vinculum has a heavily sclerotized rectangular saccus plate. The aedeagus has an everted bladder with slender spines ventrolaterally. A small area located proximally and a large area distad to the spines is studded with tiny triangular needles. The 8th abdominal sternite is trapezoidal , strongly lobed distally and extends beyond the posterior margin.
In females, the ostium is wide and ovoid, the edges are heavily sclerotized . The antrum is wide. The proximal part of the ductus bursae is broad and heavily sclerotized. The distal part is translucent, narrower and strongly curved. The corpus bursae is spherical.
Similar species
Jordanita graeca is a similar species, but its males differ in the distally slimmer 8th sternite and the less bent, double-lobed posterior margin. J. syriaca and the similar species can be distinguished genitally morphologically and have different distribution areas.
Jordanita anatolica is the only species with a similar habit in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. It is darker, the body and upper fore wing shimmer less intensely. Males and females can be distinguished genitally morphologically 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 tip are plate-shaped. The females have a thicker antenna shaft distally. Both types can be distinguished genitally morphologically.
distribution
Jordanita syriaca occurs in Syria , Lebanon and Israel .
biology
So far nothing is known about the biology of the species.
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c C. M. Naumann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae . 1st edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3 , pp. 133 (English).
literature
- CM Naumann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae . 1st edition. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3 (English).