The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa
Author
Agassiz, David
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-09
5174
2
101
156
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1
1175-5326
6986011
FDA769F6-538A-4E07-8166-684850930C16
Ptychopseustis sinualis
sp. n.
Imago (fig. 44): Wingspan
12–15 mm
. Head pale ochreous, maxillary palpus short, lpale ochreous, labial palpus> 2× diameter of eye, pale ochreous with central dorsal black spot; antenna pale ochreous. Thorax and tegulae pale ochreous with a scattering of blackish scales. Forewing with termen distinctly sinuate below apex; ground colour pale ochreous with a few scattered blackish scales, a narrow irregular antemedian fascia, a pair of dark spots in disc, an irregular subterminal fascia, a sequence of black dots before termen, fringe line dark fuscous. Hindwing pale fuscous.
Male genitalia (fig. 77): Uncus rounded, gnathos also with rounded apex; valva slender, ventral process before with a blunt poing well before apex; vinculum bearing a pair of coremata each with about four specialised setae two on each side with a node before apex. Aedeagus simple, a long serrate cornutus.
Female genitalia (fig. 102): Ovipositor very long and slender, apophyses posteriores more than half length of abdomen; ductus bursae narrow, about as long as apophyses, corpus bursae spherical sclerotised at junction with ductus, corpus covered with textured sclerotisation.
Diagnosis: Distinguished from other species in the genus by the sinuate termen and clear forewing markings.
Life history: not known.
Derivation: from the shape of the termen.
Distribution:
Madagascar
.
Type material:
Holotype
♀
[
Madagascar
]
Diego Suarez
15.iv.1917
(
G. Melou
) NHMUK013696751, Two
paratypes
♂
NHMUK010919123 same data as holotype but date
25.iv.1917
and BM
Pyralidae
Genitalia slide No. 23241,
♀
NHMUK010919122 same data but date
19.ii.1917
and BM
Pyralidae
Genitalia slide No. 23240.
Other material examined:
[
Madagascar
] Diego Suarez (G. Melou)
3♂
16.iv.1917
,
23.iv.1917
and
24.xii.1916
(without abdomen)
;
9 ♀♀
24.xii.1916
,
ii.1917
(3)
,
5.ii.1917
,
23.iv.1917
,
12.vii.1917
,
16.vii.1917
,
17-26.viii.1917
;
1♀
no data E.
Diehl
1953
,
1♀
Sabaramy
N.E.
Madagascar
16.ii.1917
(G. Melou).