Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
Author
FIBIGER, MICHAEL
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Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
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Fustis papei
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 6
, figure 6; male genit. plate 16, figure 2)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
Thailand
, Prov.
Nakhon Nayok
,
Khao Yai Nat. Park
, ca.
700 m
,
29.ix.– 6.x.1984
, leg
O. Karsholt
et al.
, genit. prep. 2936
M. Fibiger
, coll.
ZMUC
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
10 mm
.
Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, triangular patch of medial area, outer part of subterminal area, and terminal area, including outer half of fringes: black (apo.).
Forewing: long and narrow, with pointed apex; white ground colour (apo.).
Abdomen: dark grey, with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: untraceable, except terminal line marked by black interneural dots.
Reniform stigma: white, ovoid, brown outlined.
Hindwing: grey; with narrow brown terminal line and indistinct discal spot; fringes basally beige, outwards grey.
Underside: forewing brown; hindwing light grey, with discal spot.
Male genitalia.
Tegumen: narrow.
Vinculum: relatively narrow.
Saccus: short; strongly built, V shaped with rounded tip.
Fultura superior: membranous.
Valvae: slightly asymmetrical; extremely long and narrow (apo.).
Clasper: sickle shaped (apo.).
Ampulla: bilobed; ventral lobe almost circular; dorsal lobe large, fingerlike, curved; setose at tip (apo.).
Digitus: present; triangular (apo.).
Juxta-anellus plate: inseparable (phallus on left side); anellar plate extremely long and stout; outwards from middle straight, longitudinally setose along crest (apo.).
Phallus: very short, broad, and almost straight; with short carina spine; a prominently long, forward directed process arising near ductus ejaculatorius (a stop-function connected with juxta-anellus ventral processes) (apo.).
Vesica: with spinules, platelike cornutus present (on photo visible inside vesica above ductus ejaculatorius) (apo.).
Differential diagnosis.
F. papei
closely related to
F.s-forma
but differs from this and other
Fustis
species
in:
- white ground colour;
male genitalia, in
- clasper sickle shaped;
- ampulla bilobed, ventral part round, dorsal part fingerlike;
- anellus long, curved, subapically and apically setose, pointed anellus;
- phallus short, almost straight, with medial process; and
- vesica with small, short, rectangular, heavily sclerotised plate; and spinules.
Distribution.
F. papei
known only from
Thailand
.