New and poorly known Acrolepiinae from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae)
Author
Gaedike, Reinhard
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2016
2016-12-20
66
2
257
264
https://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/article/view/1905
journal article
2510
10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.257-264
cdc3d462-a67d-4a54-b403-dae1af013526
0005-805X
4754080
Digitivalva kenyacola
spec. nov.
Holotype
: ♂, “Coll. Museum Tervuren,
Kenya
:
Taita
Hills
,
26/06/1998
(
I3
),
Mbololo Forest Edge
, [leg.] U. Dall’Asta;” “
RMCA
ENT 000003258
;” “Gen. präp. [
genitalia
slide] Gaedike Nr. 8029;” “Holotypus
Digitivalva kenyacola
sp. n.
det.
R. Gaedike
2014;”
RMCA
.
Paratype
:
1 ♀,
same location, but
30/06/1998
(F3); “
RMCA
ENT 000003259
;” “Gen. präp. [
genitalia
slide] Gaedike Nr. 8028;” “Paratypus
Digitivalva kenyacola
sp. n.
det.
R. Gaedike
2014;”
RMCA
.
Derivatio nominis
: Named after the country in which the
types
were found.
Diagnosis
(
Fig. 1
): Wingspan
10 mm
. Head white, scales around insertion of antennae pale grey, in the neck somewhat erected. Labial palpus oblique directed upwards, whitish, with pale scales outside on apex of the first two segments, third segment minute, pointed. Scape of antenna on underside white, on upperside pale, flagellum ringed. Thorax and tegulae white, tegulae basally with paler scales. Forewing ground-colour white with a pattern of grey and brown scales. On dorsum at 1/4 a dark brown, nearly square patch, reaching to cell; at 1/2 an indication of a band from costa to dorsum, first half darker brown than second half. On costa from base to 1/2 some short and thin dark brown lines. Fringe with two dark brown scale-lines. The entire area more or less overlaid with pale and brown scales. Hindwing grey.
Male
genitalia
(
Figs 7–9
): Uncus short, truncated, tegumen laterally narrow, ventrally nearly triangular, with long saccus, narrower to rounded tip; valva with more or less rounded basal part, costal arm short, with rounded tip; phallus as long as vinculum + saccus, broader than saccus, nearly straight.
Female
genitalia
(
Fig. 10
): Pads of lamella postvaginalis broad, with numerous long bristles; ostium with broad, more strongly sclerotized ring, ductus bursae without stronger sclerotization, apical edge of segment VIII slightly invaginated.
Remarks:
Superficially characterized by the square dark brown patch on dorsum of forewing and the two dark brown scale-lines on fringe. Male
genitalia
similar to
D. gelida
(MEYRICK, 1921)
, but saccus narrower and longer, costal arm of valva short with rounded tip and phallus straight.