Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
Author
FIBIGER, MICHAEL
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Zootaxa
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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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Tumula flavicollis
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 5
, figure 1; female genit. plate 23, figure 5)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
Thailand
N,
Fang
, Hort. Res. Sta.
450 m
,
24–26.vii.1989
, leg.
J.D. & D.J. Bradley
&
Angoon Lewvanich
, genit. prep. 3339
M. Fibiger
, coll.
BMNH
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
10 mm
.
Labial palps: porrect, second segment brown outside, beige inside, roughly scaled vertically, third segment narrow, beige and 1/5 length of second.
Head, patagia, tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa of forewing, upper part of medial area and all terminal area, including fringes blackish brown.
Forewing: ground colour light yellow.
Abdomen: grey, with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: untraceable, except black dots along terminal line.
Hindwing: grey, with discal spot.
Underside: forewing grey, hindwing light grey, with discal spot.
Female genitalia.
Ovipositor: quadrangular, with rounded corners.
Posterior apophyses: slightly longer than ovipositor.
Anterior apophyses: 0.75 times length of posterior apophyses (apo.).
7
th
abdominal segment: as long as wide, anteriorly heavily sclerotised, with lateral pockets (apo.).
7
th
and 8
th
abdominal segment: slightly longer than broad.
8
th
abdominal segment: very short, 0.40 times shorter than ovipositor (apo.).
Ostium: displaced slightly to left, very broad, with prominent semicircular ventral extension; located posteriorly on 7
th
segment (apo.).
Antrum: wide, as long as broad, heavily sclerotised.
Ductus bursae: broad, curved; twice as long as corpus bursae, medial long part heavily sclerotised (apo.).
Appendix bursae: arising posteriorly from ductus bursae.
Signum: cross shaped, longitudinal bar weaker.
Distribution.
T. flavicollis
is known only from N
Thailand
.