Elachista maculata Parenti 1978

Elachista maculata Parenti, 1978 Figs 11, 12, 17, 23, 26 Elachista maculata Parenti, 1978: 15 Diagnosis (Figs 11, 12). A variable species with white forewing ground colour; variably scattered with light brown and black scales that sometimes form an indistinct marking along fold in the middle of the forewing and patches along the termen. Description. Male genitalia (Fig. 17). The uncus lobes are twice as long as broad, distally round. The gnathos is 1.5 × as long as wide. The median plate of the juxta is round with shallow, dorsally directed median sac. The juxta lobes are very small, convex, thus easily causing distortion in dissections; acute-tipped, laterally concave. The digitate process is minute, as long as the tegumen and uncus together. The valva is characteristic with the markedly convex costa, and the distally square shape. The phallus is broad, its length a little more than half of the length of the valva; somewhat swollen at distal 2 / 3. The apex is straight, but its shape appears variable depending whether it is fully open or not. Female genitalia (Figs 23, 26). Papilla analis nearly round; ventrally connected with inverted Y-shaped sclerotisation. Apophysis posterioris straight, longer than the basally curved apophysis anterioris. Ostium bursae round, dorsal wall without sclerotisation or spines. Antrum and colliculum indistinguishable from each other, together 2 / 3 as long as apophysis posterioris. Remaining part of ductus bursae approximately 3 × as long as apophysis posterioris, membranous, with longitudinal row of internal spines. Ductus bursae distinctly separable from corpus bursae. Corpus bursae almost round, with two elongate patches of coarse spines.