Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
Author
FIBIGER, MICHAEL
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Zootaxa
2010
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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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Asyprocessa laevi
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 7
, figure 7; female genit. plate 24, figure 7)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
Thailand
NW,
Chiang Mai
,
Mae Rim
/
Samoeng rd.
,
24 km
,
29-i.1989
, leg.
I.J. Kitching
&
A.M. Cotton
,
BM 1989 - 57
, genit. prep. 3280
M. Fibiger
, coll.
BMNH
.
Paratype
: female, W
Thailand
,
Hua Hin
,
Coastal
scrub / swamp,
2 m
,
26.xii.1986
, leg.
M.G. Allen
,
BM 1986 - 300
,
genit. prep. 3279
M. Fibiger
, coll.
BMNH
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
8 mm
.
fringes: grey brown, costal medial area quadrangular.
Forewing: narrow, pointed at apex, ground colour yellow (apo.).
Crosslines: all lines present, narrow, brown.
Terminal line: marked by black interneural dots.
Reniform stigma: yellow, hardly traceable.
Hindwing: grey, with indistinct discal spot.
Male genitalia.
Unknown.
Female genitalia.
General features described under genus.
Ostium: large, displaced to left (apo.).
Antrum: postriorly wide, tapers throughout, strongly curved (apo.).
Ductus bursae: membranous and narrow, 1.5 times length of corpus bursae.
Appendix bursae: arising at posterior end of ductus bursae.
Differential diagnosis.
A. laevi
differs from other
Asyprocessa
and
Obscurini
species in:
- very narrow wings;
- crosslines present, black, narrow;
- narrow, yellow reniform stigma;
female genitalia, in
- 7
th
and 8
th
segment fused ventrally;
- ostium large, displaced to left;
- antrum short, strongly curved, tapered;
- ductus bursae narrow, 1.5 times as long as corpus bursae.
Distribution.
A. laevi
known only from N and NW
Thailand
.