A review of the Torodora manoconta species-group (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), with descriptions of three new species
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
text
Zootaxa
2007
1465
55
64
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273738
2bc23394-e38c-4169-a5a8-0bc4284df931
1175-5326
273738
Torodora babeana
Park
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 5
,
12, 12
a, 16)
Type
.
HOLOTYPE
ɗ, Cuc Phuong Nat. Park,
200 m
, Ninh Vinh Prov.,
Vietnam
,
11–12.VI.2004
(K.T. Park & N. Cuong), gen. slide no. CIS-5242.
PARATYPES
. 1ɗ, same data as
holotype
, gen. slide no. CIS- 5247. 1ɗ, same locality,
450 m
,
24.IV.2006
(Park, Kim, Kang), gen. slide no. CIS-5243. 3ɗ, 1&, Ba Be Nat. Park, Bac Khan Prov.,
26–28.VII.2006
(Park, Chae, & Cuong), gen. slide no. CIS-5248 (&).
Types
deposited in
CIS
.
Diagnosis.
This new species is similar to
T. chinanensis
,
T. vietnamensis
sp. nov.
, and
T. manoconta
Wu & Liu. It
can be distinguished from them only by features of the male genitalia: apex of uncus smaller, less expanded laterally; lateral lobe of juxta digitate with serrate edge preapically; cornuti a long spine, about 1/3 length of aedeagus and shorter one forming a round plate with spines.
Description
. Male. Forewing length
19–20 mm
. Head shiny, pale brownish yellow, with concolorous erect scales laterally. Antenna with pedicel pale brownish orange, shiny dorsally; flagellum pale brownish orange throughout, with pale brownish annulations. Second segment of labial palpus rather slender, pale brownish orange all around; 3rd segment as long as second, dark brown ventrally. Tegula and thorax shiny golden brown. Forewing ground color shiny golden brown, often with large yellowish triangular or elongate patch near 2/3 on inner margin; apex somewhat round; termen less oblique; fringe golden brown. R3 stalked at basal 1/3; R4 and R5 stalked beyond basal 4/5; R5 to termen; M1 close to R3+4+5at base; M2 and M3 connate at base; M3 and CuA1 stalked for 1/2, sometimes fro 2/3 length. Hindwing pale yellowish brown; apex acute; M3 and CuA1 stalked mesially, sometimes near basal 1/3 length; fringe golden brown.
Hind
tibia with dark brown hairlike setae preapically.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 12, 12
a). Uncus with clavate apex, somewhat rounded. Gnathos strongly bent downwardly. Valva foot-shaped, costa gently concave mesially. Juxta with heavily sclerotized, crescent-shaped median flap; flap often concealed on slide-mounts (see
Fig. 12
). Lateral lobe of juxta digitate, serrate preapically on outer margin. Aedeagus with a pair of cornuti: longer one spine-shaped, slender, about 1/3 length of aedeagus; shorter one with large round plate basally, with few spines.
Female genitalia (
Fig. 16
). Eighth sternum deeply emarginate at middle. Apophysis anterioris very short. Antrum poorly defined. Ductus bursae broad, with heavily sclerotized plates of variable shape in distal half. Corpus bursae ovate; signum elliptical, a heavily sclerotized plate with many spinules on surface, shorter than 1/4 length of corpus bursa.
Distribution.
Vietnam
(North).
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the geographic locality of four of the
paratypes
, Ba Be,
Vietnam
.