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
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10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
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Vas owadai
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 5
, figure 3; female genit. plate 23, figure 7)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
Thailand
N,
Chiang Mai Prov.
,
Doi Inthanon
,
South Ridge
,
1650 m
,
18–21.x.1983
, leg.
M. Owada
, genit. prep. 3282
M. Fibiger
, coll.
NSMT
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
11 mm
.
Head, patagia, tegulae, thorax, and ground colour of forewing: brown; costal quadrangular patch of medial area and terminal area dark brown (apo.).
Forewing: long and narrow, with pointed apex.
Abdomen: grey; with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: all present, though indistinctly marked; terminal line marked by black interneural dots.
Reniform stigma: small, whitish, outlined by dark brown.
Hindwing: light grey, with indistinct discal spot.
Underside: forewing brown grey, hindwing light grey, discal spot of hindwing present.
Female genitalia.
Ovipositor: quadrangular, with rounded corners.
Posterior apophyses: slightly longer than ovipositor.
Anterior apophyses: 1/5 length of posterior apophyses.
7
th
abdominal segment: half as long as wide; shortest ventrally.
8
th
abdominal segment: ventrally free, with postvaginal, conelike plate.
Ostium: displaced slightly to left, large.
Antrum: broadly vaselike, 1.5 times longer than wide; ventrally shorter (apo.).
Ductus bursae: membranous, very long and narrow; 3 times as long as corpus bursae (apo.).
Corpus bursae: globular.
Appendix bursae: arising posteriorly from ductus bursae.
Signum: cross-shaped, longitudinal bar shorter.
Differential diagnosis.
V. owadai
differs from
V. proceus
in smaller size, in male genitalia, in larger patch in costa-medial area, and in female genitalia in longer antrum and longer ductus bursae.
Distribution.
V. owadai
known only from type-locality in North
Thailand
.