Ancylogastra, a new genus of Afrotropical Crambinae, with descriptions of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambidae)
Author
Bassi, Graziano
Corresponding member, Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. Via Sant’Agostino, 51, Avigliana (Torino), Italy.
Author
Sáfián, Szabolcs
African Natural History Research Trust, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR 6 9 QA, UK.
Author
Léger, Théo
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitaetsforschung
Author
Müller, Günter C.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Author
Kravchenko, Vasiliy D.
Author
Poltavsky, Alexander N.
Botanical garden of Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-13
5052
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journal article
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Ancylogastra burundiana
Bassi
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 7
,
16, 17
,
29, 30
)
Holotype
male, with labels: 1)
Holotypus
; 2) Urundi [
Burundi
]:
Kitega
[
Gitega
, approximatively
1500 m
a.s.l.
and
03°26’S
,
29°54’E
],
20.X.1965
,
Dr. M. Fontaine
[legit], 3) GS 2441 GB, 4)
Ancylogastra burundiana
Bassi
,
Holotype
,
G. Bassi
det.
Deposited
in
RMCA
.
FIGURES 16–24.
Male genitalia and abdominal sclerotisations of
Ancylogastra
Bassi & Poltavsky
,
gen. n.
species. 16.
A. burundiana
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, holotype; 17. The same, tergite of eighth abdominal segment; 18.
A. ghanensis
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, paratype GS 6220 GB; 19. The same, paratype GS 6246 GB, sternite of eighth abdominal segment; 20. The same, tergite of eighth abdominal segment; 21.
A. gangraensis
Bassi, Sáfián, Müller
& †Kravchenko,
sp. n.
, paratype GS 6690 GB, Guinea; 22. The same, tergite of eighth abdominal segment; 23. The same, sternite of eighth abdominal segment; 24. The same, apex of phallus magnified. Not to scale.
FIGURES 25–28.
Female genitalia of
Ancylogastra
Bassi & Poltavsky
,
gen. n.
species. 25.
A. amphiaula
, female GS 6214 GB, Malawi; 26. The same, papillae anales, dorso-lateral view. 27.
A. magnifica
Bassi
sp. n.
, paratype GS 6200 GB; 28.
A. endroedyi
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, holotype. Not to scale.
FIGURES 29–33.
Female genitalia of
Ancylogastra
Bassi & Poltavsky
,
gen. n.
species. 29.
A. burundiana
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, paratype GS 2829 GB; 30. The same, magnified to show the lateral extension of ductus bursae; 31.
A. ghanensis
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, paratype GS 6195 GB; 32.
A. coronata
Bassi
,
sp. n.
, holotype, magnified to show the lateral extension of ductus bursae; 33. The same, holotype. Not to scale.
FIGURES 34–37.
Female genitalia of
Ancylogastra
Bassi & Poltavsky
,
gen. n.
species. 34.
A. boireaui
Bassi & Sáfián
,
sp. n.
, paratype GS 6655 GB, with origin of the ductus seminalis arrowed; 35.
A. gangraensis
Bassi, Sáfián, Müller
& †Kravchenko,
sp. n.
, paratype, GS 6666 GB, Guinea; 36. The same as 34, papillae anales, dorso-lateral view; 37. The same as 35, papillae anales, dorso-lateral view. Not to scale.
Paratypes
:
1 male
,
Burundi
,
Gitega
,
29.X.1967
,
Dr. M. Fontaine
,
RCGB
;
1 female
,
Burundi
,
Gitega
,
2.III.1968
,
Dr. M. Fontaine
legit, GS 2829 GB,
RMCA
.
Diagnosis
. In habitus the species is similar to
A. ghanensis
sp. n.
(
Fig. 8
) described below, but with forewing termen wider with white ground colour and abdomen paler. In the male genitalia (
Fig. 16
) the phallus is cylindrical with an apical tooth. In the female genitalia (
Fig. 29
), the sterigma is larger and less pointed and the ductus bursae is larger and less sclerotised. This and the next two new species described below are very close to each other in having the female genitalia with the lateral extension of the ductus bursae membranous, very short, and delicate (
Figs 30–32
).
Etymology
. The name refers to the country where the
type
series was collected.
Description
(
Fig. 7
). Wingspan: males
25–26 mm
, female
31 mm
. Labial palpi four times as long as eye diameter, brown with upper margin and tip sprinkled with white. Maxillary palpi subtriangular, brown tipped white. Antenna in male shortly bipectinate with rami one and a half times as long as flagellomere; in female simple, brown with costa bronze brown. Frons rounded, gently produced, white with brown dot medially. Ocelli normally developed. Chaetosemata minute. Vertex white. Patagia brown with scattered white scales. Tegulae pale brown. Thorax white sprinkled with brown. Forewing subtriangular, apex rounded, termen large and slightly concave medially; ground colour white with costa darker with scattered brown scales; three irregular dots medio-dorsally, antemedially and in cell; postmedial fascia silvery white, with very distinct brown serrate inner border and weakly serrate brown outer border; subterminal area white with seven subtriangular black spots; terminal line black; fringes silvery white with short scales tipped brown; underside bronze brown suffused with white. Hindwing shiny white in male, shiny white suffused with pale ivory yellow in female; fringes shiny white; underside white suffused with brown along costa. Legs bronze brown with tarsi annulated with white. Abdomen white and pale bronze brown. Tergite of male abdominal segment VIII as in
Fig. 17
.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 16
). Uncus and gnathos of equal lengths, both slightly curved distally and with narrowly rounded apex. Tegumen long and narrow. Vinculum stout, rounded. Pseudosaccus subconical. Juxta large, cupshaped. Valva simple, ventrobasally bulged, narrowing towards apex; costal arm strongly sclerotised, upcurved and apically pointed. Phallus slightly shorter than valva, almost cylindrical, with rounded apex bearing a triangular tooth; vesica with several minute scobinations.
Female genitalia
(
Figs 29, 30
). Papillae anales subrectangular. Apophyses posteriores with base strongly sclerotised, then narrow and apically slightly curved. Abdominal segment VIII more intensely sclerotised ventrally and dorsally. Apophyses anteriores longer than apophyses posteriores, narrow, slightly curved. Sterigma bulged dorsally and broadly subtriangular ventrally. Ostium bursae membranous. Ductus bursae larger than antrum, slightly longer than corpus bursae, strongly sclerotised basally, with a narrowing sclerotised band along its length, ending at inception of ductus seminalis, proximally in corpus bursae; lateral extension small, sclerotised basally and then membranous. Corpus bursae membranous with scobinations laterally and basally.
Distribution
. Only known from
Burundi
.