are stretched towards the tip of the wing and the 
markings are ochreous to brown. In the male genitalia 
the species differs by having larger genitalia with many 
thorns and hairs on the cucullus; aedeagus is longer and 
slightly curved; socii are nearly absent and there is a 
short uncus. In the female genitalia the two signa are 
well developed, funnel shaped. The sclerotized spiracles 
- one in each segment of abdomen - are pronounced (fig. 
8 ). 
Description. Imago. (Figures 2-3) Wingspan 14-15 
mm. Antenna are fasciculate, conical ringed ochreous 
and slightly darker brown. Labial palp twice the diameter 
of the eye, whitish; second segment strongly scaled, 
spatula shaped; head rough scaled and ochreous. Hind 
tibia light ochreous with two pairs of rather long spurs. In 
hindwing vein M2 is approaching basally to CuAl and M3 
is missing. Ground colour light ochreous suffused with 
irregular darker areas. The basal blotch is darker, angled 
and with a subbasal interfascia; a week and interrupted 
median fascia plus a postmedian fascia are both pointing 
towards the tip of the wing. The terminal area irregularly 
brown spotted and there is a reminiscence of a speculum 
where the outer line is present but only with a very week 
line of leaden glistening scales; the inner spot has many 
scattered black scales and the inner line of speculum is 
present as a white stretched dot. At costa several 
ochreous strigula dark and light and four of them are not 
divided, but can consist of several very fine strigula and a 
costal fold reaching 2/5th of the length. Cilia are light 
ochreous with a black dividing line interrupted in the 
middle of the termen. Hindwing is light ochreous 
unicoloured and the fringes are without a dividing line. 
Male genitalia (Figure 5). Uncus small, flat and tipped; 
socii very week, nearly not present; tegumen broad with 
slender pedunculi; valva rather short and weak with a 
rounded and strongly haired cucullus; at the dorsal edge 
of cucullus three or more long pointed thorns as a part of 
the area with thorns on cucullus; aedeagus long, equally 
broad, rounded and weekly sclerotised; vinculum strong. 
Female genitalia (Figure 7). Papilla analis triangular, 
short and hairy; apophyses stronger and rather short; 
ostium very weekly developed or reduced; subgenital 
sternite is weak and excavated around ostium; ductus 
bursa long, strongly sclerotised from bursa to just before 
ostium, where it is without sclerotisation and is 
narrowing; bursa rounded with two big funnel shaped 
signa and some wrinkles near the bursa "neck". 
Biology. Only the flight data are known - April and 
again July to October. 
Distribution. The species is only known from the type 
locality. All the specimens were taken in a light trap. 
Etymology. The species is named after my good friend 
and provider of the specimens Willibald Schmitz. 
Systematic position of Willibaldiana new 
genus 
From the first sight, some years ago, it was obvious 
that these two species were new to Science, but the 
genital characters made it very difficult to find out 
whether they could be assigned to an already known 
genus or whether a new genus should be established. It 
was also very extreme to see that the two species 
obviously belonged to the same genus in spite of the 
differences in imagines, which later turned up to be 
rather slight. It was only last year that I had the 
possibility to make a slide of the female of W. paasi 
which convinced me of the close relationship between 
the two species. 
The next question was to find out a reasonable 
position of the new genus Willibaldiana. Many of the 
characters in the genitalia seem to be less developed or 
reduced. The basal excavations of the valva and the 
single scale ring on the segments of the antenna, define 
the genus into the family Olethreutinae. The opinion is 
that the characters which follow define the genus to the 
tribe Eucosmini: 
1. The venation of the hindwing with M2 
approaching basally to CuAl and M3 is missing. 
2. The presence of socii, although "reduced", and 
the slender pedunculi. 
3. The shape of the signa in bursa. 
4. The general drawings on the forewings, especially 
with many costal strigula. 
5. The presence of a speculum although reduced. 
A character against this opinion is the shape of 
aedeagus which is more like a Grapholitini, but as there 
are some Eucosmini species with an aedeagus of this 
type, e.g. Rhyacionia piniana (Herrich-Schaffer, 1851), 
this factor should not dominate the ideas about the 
taxonomie position. In fact the female genitalia of R. 
piniana have some characters which have affinities to the 
females of Willibaldiana, especially the reduced 
characters in ostium, etc. 
Now, the next question is to define the relationships 
inside the tribe Eucosmini. To give a proper answer to 
that question a molecular examination of the species 
would be preferable, but that is beyond the scope of this 
paper and beyond the scope of my possibilities. Thus the 
decision can only be of preliminary character. As there 
are some affinities with the genus Salsolicola Kuznetsov, 
1960 both in imagines and male genitalia a relation to 
this genus should be considered, but there are many 
more differences. The genus Rhyacionia Hübner, 1825 is 
very diverse in the Mediterranean area with one 
endemic species in the Canary Islands (Rebel 1896) and 
the sister group Clavigesta Obraztsov, 1946 (Larsen 
2010) has its main evolutionary area in the 
Mediterranean, and this genus also has reduced 
characters (Obraztsov 1946) like the new genus. I would 
not be surprised if a more close investigation would 
reveal a common ancestor to these three genera. A 
preliminary position of Willibaldiana is proposed to be 
after the genus Clavigesta Obraztsov, 1946 as the last 
genus in Eucosmini. 
The number of Tortricidae found on the Canary 
Islands is 48 (Aarvik 2013). With the two new species the 
number increases to 50. 
ISSN 0771-5277 
Phegea 41 (3) 01.ix.2013: 53 
