<documentID-CLB-Dataset="6714"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.25747"ID-GBIF-Dataset="b5ca09f5-d028-47bc-b992-ee4c2d459999"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1860-1324-1-81"ID-Pensoft-UUID="02A8A58952E45A03A5B82D880838FA8A"ID-Zenodo-Dep="1293071"ID-ZooBank="4FE56A194D034C35B4E5CB1E7469B4CC"ModsDocID="1860-1324-65-1-81"checkinTime="1621372464233"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Bidzilya, Oleksiy V. & Mey, Wolfram"docDate="2018"docId="FF1422FDF6D5E8506A219ECCABDD8C64"docLanguage="en"docName="DeutEntomolZeit 65(1): 81-98"docOrigin="Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65 (1)"docPubDate="2018-06-12"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.25747"docTitle="Tricerophora pundamilia Bidzilya & Mey 2018, sp. n."docType="treatment"docUuid="B6A0D54C-A6B7-4D56-87A5-A49E295F8AB7"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="5"id="02A8A58952E45A03A5B82D880838FA8A"lastPageNumber="87"masterDocId="02A8A58952E45A03A5B82D880838FA8A"masterDocTitle="Review of the genus Tricerophora Janse, 1958 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) with description of six new species"masterLastPageNumber="98"masterPageNumber="81"pageNumber="85"updateTime="1732742563054"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="7AB6F9487FD144F0AB39AB027424BDAA">Review of the genus Tricerophora Janse, 1958 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) with description of six new species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="29D86998C2EE5C2DEE35DE29E5D42C9F">Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebedev str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine</mods:affiliation>
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The new species is characterized externally by predominately black forewing with white pattern along dorsal margin and white diffuse spots on 1/3 and 2/3 of costal margin.
is very similar, but differs in the white head without black irroration and the dorsal margin of the forewing mottled with black. A sub-ovate ostium with two transverse sclerotized belts and sclerotized anterior margin in combination with very short ductus bursae that bears teeth are characteristic for the female genitalia.
): Wingspan 17.0 mm. Head and thorax covered with white black-tipped scales, labial palpus white, segment 2 with black base and rare brown scales on outer surface, brush of scales underside, segment 3 acute, white mottled with black. Scape brown, flagellum white with brown rings, underside pubescent in male. Tegulae blackish-grey. Forewing covered by weakly raised, black-tipped scales, diffuse white spots on 1/4 and 1/2 of costal margin, subcostal vein with black interrupted streak from base to 1/2 length, distinct black pattern around fold and in mid width from 2/3 towards apex, white patch mottled in with brown from 1/5 of dorsal margin to termen, cilia white, black-tipped. Hindwing and cilia grey.
): Sternum VIII about as longer as broad, weakly narrowed distally, membranous, densely covered with fine microtrichia, anterior margin with triangular medial sclerites; ostium sub-ovate, weakly broadened posteriorly, anterior margin strongly edged,
two transverse sclerotized belts; apophysis anterioris about as long as a length of segment VIII; antrum broad, as long as apophysis anterioris, narrowed in distal part towards very short, entirely sclerotized ductus bursae that bears numerous teeth before entrance to corpus bursae; corpus bursae sub-ovate, weakly broadened anteriorly; signum with well serrated arms, the anterior one slightly longer than the posterior.
<paragraphid="23D689CD0E9ED48FBADB38515DB06055"pageId="6"pageNumber="87">The species is named after Punda Milia in Kruger National Park, the type locality of the new species.</paragraph>
