Antoniejanse varii Bidzilya & Rajaei 2024, sp. nov.

Antoniejanse varii sp. nov.

Figs 10, 19, 28

Type material. Holotype ♂, [South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province] Umlanga Rocks, 6.viii.1968, leg. L. Vári, gen. slide 592/14, O. Bidzilya (in DMSA).

Diagnosis. Antoniejanse varii sp. nov. has pale, light-brown forewing with distinct tornal spot and brown markings in fold (A. reducta has a similar wing pattern, but dark markings in the fold are less distinct). In male genitalia of A. varii sp. nov., juxta process is broader than sacculus and apically curved; phallus is apically broadened; and coremata are tufts of hair-like scales (Fig. 19) (in A. sagittata juxta process is as broad as sacculus and apically straight; phallus is narrowed; coremata tufts of broadened scales).

Description (Fig. 10). Wingspan of holotype 9.7 mm. Head covered with grey brown-tipped scales; labial palpus gently curved, segment 2 brown, upper surface white, segment 3 white with brown apex, slightly narrower and about 1/2 length of segment 2; scape brown mottled with grey; flagellum light brown; thorax and tegulae greyish-brown; forewing light-brown mottled with light-grey especially in fold and along subcostal vein, costal margin slightly darkened with dark-brown, fold with brown spot at base, brown streaks in middle and at end, brown elongate spot in middle under costal margin, distinct brown tornal spot on 2/3 of dorsum, termen spotted with brown, fringes greyish-brown; hindwing and fringes light-grey.

Male genitalia (Fig. 28). Uncus subtrapezoid, posteromedial incision slender; gnathos reduced; tegumen broad at base, distal part narrow, subrectangular, anteromedial emargination very shallow; glandiductor absent; sacculus digitate, weakly curved; juxta process narrower than sacculus, apically curved; phallus weakly curved, apically gently broadened.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Biology. Larval stages and hostplant unknown. The holotype has been collected in early August.

Distribution. South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Province.

Etymology. The species is named in honor of Lajos Vári, a well-known lepidopterologist and former curators of Lepidoptera at the DMSA, who collected the holotype of the new species.