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Author
Zelazny, B.
Author
Webb, M. D.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-10-28
3071
1
307
journal article
11755334
Dichotropis sublimis
Zelazny
,
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 154
)
Description.
Forewings 1.8 times longer than wide, length about
4.4 mm
. Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae, antennae, middle of pronotum, and mesonotum orange-brown, but scutellum stramineous. Forewings white, very faintly infuscated around apex of Cu and along apical cross-veins; veins yellowish-brown in apical two-thirds, colourless in basal third. Hindwings colourless. Facial carinae clearly separated; subantennal processes large, lateral carinae of pronotum foliaceous. Forewings with Sc+R fork just before its middle. Male anal segment with prominent lateral processes. Genital styles with dorsal and ventral margins nearly parallel; proximal dorsal process large, its pointed tip curved inwards, appearing rounded in side view; distal dorsal process with a wide base which is nearly completely merged with the proximal process, apical part club-shaped; a finger-like process bearing bristles at the tip on the inside near the base. Aedeagus with apical portion broad, nearly rectangular in dorsal view; dorsal side with several rounded projections.
Etymology
.
The species name is a Latin adjective (
sublimis
, -is, -e
= elevated).
Type material.
Holotype
♂
(forewing
4.4 mm
),
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
, labels: 1)
New Guinea
- NE/ W.
Highlands
/
Kamang
nr.
Minj
/
1840 m
,
21.V.1968
2)
Bamboo
3)
J.L. Gressitt
/
Collector
(
BPBM
).
Distribution
.
New
Guinea
.
Diagnosis.
Dichotropis sublimis
is characterized by the yellowish-brown forewing veins, the lack of any dark mark on the forewings, and the dorsal processes of the male genital styles having very broad, nearly completely merged bases.