The family Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea), with descriptions of five new species
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea.
Author
Karisch, Timm
0000-0003-1281-7512
Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, Askanische Strasse 32, 06842 Dessau-Rosslau, Germany. timm. karisch @ naturkunde. dessau. de, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1281 - 7512
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-01
4995
3
581
593
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4995.3.12
1175-5326
5057115
ACC86498-899C-48B6-924A-5EEEBAD85A08
Dragmatucha vulcaniella
Park & Karisch
,
sp. nov.
LSID:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
263B337A-A789-4871-A7CC-8D344E9CA0E5
(
Figs. 8
A-D)
Type specimen.
–
Holotype
:
♀
,
Equatorial Guinea
,
Island of Bioko
(former Fernando Póo),
Gran Caldera Volcanica de Luba
u
Ose
, outer NNE slope about
4 km
SSW Ruiché
,
5 km
S of Luba
, higher altitude primary rain forest,
1,200 m
,
3°22’30” N
8°32’30” E
,
20.viii.1994
, at light, leg.
T
.
Karisch
, gen. slide no. 3825/
Karisch
, deposited in the coll.
Karisch
(
SDEI
).
Diagnosis.
This new species is superficially similar to
D. saltualis
Park, 2020
which was described from a single male from
Kenya
, but it can be distinguished by the forewing pattern: the yellowish-white antemedian band much narrower and slightly broadened toward inner margin, whereas in the latter the band broader, at least 1.5 times and broadened toward costa; postmedian line narrow with even width, whereas in the latter it is more broadened in anterior half.
Description.
Female (
Figs. 8A, B
). Forewing length 9.0 mm.
Head
: Pale yellow dorsally, also pale yellow on frons. Antenna slightly shorter than forewing; scape elongated, dark brown ventrally; flagellum pale yellow, lacking distinct annulations. Second segment of labial palpus thickened, slightly arched, pale yellow on outer surface, paler on inner surface; 3
rd
segment slightly upturned, slender, slightly longer than 2
nd
segment, yellowish white, speckled with brownish scales.
Thorax
: Tegula and thorax pale yellow dorsally; with broad patches of long scales at distal ends of coxa ventrally. Median leg with femur and tibia pale yellow; tibia with a pair of spurs, the outer one about 1/3 the length of the inner one; hind leg with pale-yellow femur; tibia with long, pale yellowish-brown rough scales medially, pale yellow in distal half. Forewing ground color grayish orange, with pale-yellow narrow subbasal line; pale-yellow broad antemedian transversal fascia arising from basal 1/3 of costa to 1/3 of inner margin; postmedian fascia linear, pale yellow, strongly angled at beyond middle outwardly; basal zone before antemedian fascia and the zone beyond postmedian fascia dusted with yellowish-brown scales; apex obtuse; termen oblique, slightly sinuate; fringes pale yellow, shiny.
FIGURE 8.
Dragmatucha vulcaniella
Park & Karisch
,
sp. nov
.
: A, adult, holotype; B, labial palpi in lateral view; C, label; D, female genitalia, slide no, 3825/Karisch, with close-up of signum. Scale bar for the genitalia with aedeagus: 1.0 mm.
Abdomen
: Yellowish brown, each segment with narrow yellowish-white line along posterior margin, last segment pale yellow. Spinose zones on dorsal surface (
Fig. 8C
) broadly occupied with somewhat long spines.
Female genitalia
. (
Figs. 8C, D
): Abdominal sternite VIII broadly emarginated into more than half medially. Apophyses anteriores about 1/3 the length of apophyses posteriors. Ostium bursae broadly developed. Antrum cupshaped, membranous. Ductus bursae broad, long, about 2.5 times than the length of corpus bursae, with several small spines medially; ductus seminalis arising from beyond half. Corpus bursae ovate; signum large, elliptical, broadened transversally, with nearly symmetrical upper and lower plates; median groove broad.
Distribution.
So far only known from the
type
locality on Bioko.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from Latin,
vulkanus
(= volcano, god of fire), referring to the area of the
type
locality.