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
Thubdora angustiala
Park & Karisch
,
sp. nov.
LSID:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
CF4C608C-AC71-498C-A801-F326853779EC
(
Figs. 5A–C
)
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
,
18.viii.1994
, at light, leg.
T
.
Karisch
, gen. slide no. 3827/
Karisch
, deposited in coll.
Karisch
in
SDEI
.
Diagnosis.
This new species is similar to the preceding new species,
T. biocoica
,
but it can be easily distinguished from the latter by the following characters: the forewing more elongated, with a small, yellowish-white costal patch located before 3/4 of costa, and the termen very oblique, whereas in
T. biocoica
the costal patch is located nearer to apex and the termen not oblique, nearly straight.
FIGURE 5.
Thubdora angustiala
Park & Karisch
,
sp. nov
.
: A, adult, holotype; B, dorsal surface of head and thorax; C, female genitalia, slide no, 3827/Karisch. Scale bar for the genitalia with aedeagus: 1.0 mm.
Description
. Female (
Figs. 5A, B
). Forewing length
8.5 mm
.
Head
: Dark brown dorsally, with yellowish-white erect scales laterally. Antenna slightly shorter than forewing; scape elongated; flagellum slightly ciliate-fasciculate, yellowish white with dark-brown annulations. Labial palpus with very short 1
st
segment; 2
nd
segment thickened, more or less flattened, curved upward, yellowish brown on outer surface, dark brown dorsally and ventrally; 3
rd
segment strongly upturned, slender, as long as second segment, yellowish white, speckled with dark-brown scales.
Thorax
: Tegula and thorax dark brown dorsally. Median legs with dark-brown femur; tibia dark brown, paler towards apex, with a pair of spurs terminally, the inner one 2.5 times longer than the outer one. Hind leg with darkbrown femur; tibia with brownish rough scales above, with pale-yellow scales apically; spurs at middle and near end, inner one more than 2 times longer than the outer one. Forewing nearly parallel-sided; ground color dark brown with a small, triangular yellowish-white costal patch at about basal 3/4; no transverse lines or streaks presented; apex rounded; termen oblique and slightly sinuate, fringes concolorous with ground color, with a narrow yellowishwhite basal line along margin. Hind wing brownish gray; fringes concolorous with ground color, with narrow yellowish-white basal line.
Abdomen
: Dark brown, with pale yellowish brown terminal segment. Spinose zones with very strong spines on dorsal surface.
Female genitalia
(
Figs. 5C
): Abdominal sternite VIII deeply emarginated medially, into U-shape. Apophyses anteriores about half the length of apophyses posteriores. Ostium bursae gently concave.Antrum heavily sclerotized, quadrate, sharply produced latero-caudally, slightly concave on lateral margin, connecting membranous swollen posterior part of ductus bursae. Ductus bursae broad in posterior 2/5, gradually broader distally; narrowed in anterior 3/5, nearly parallel-sided, once coiled anteriorly. Corpus bursae ovate, about half the length of ductus bursae; signum with hood-shaped plates divided by a broad, transverse groove medially.
Male unknown.
Distribution.
Known from the
type
locality on Bioko only.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the Latin,
angusti
(= narrow) and
ala
(= wing), referring to the narrowed forewing.