Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
Author
FIBIGER, MICHAEL
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Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
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Fustis gregerseni
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 6
, figure 4; male genit. plate 15, figure 6)
Material examined.
Holotype
: male, W
Thailand
,
Uthai Thani Distr.
,
Khao Nang Rum
,
400 m
,
26– 27.i.1987
, leg.
M.G. Allen
,
BM 1986 – 300
, genit. prep. 3765
M. Fibiger
, coll.
BMNH
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
14.5 mm
(apo.).
Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, triangular patch of medial area, small patches of lower subterminal area, and terminal area, including fringes: black.
Forewing: long and narrow, with pointed apex, beige ground colour suffused with few light brown scales.
Abdomen: dark grey, with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: untraceable, terminal line weakly marked by black interneural dots.
Reniform stigma: beige, ovoid, black outlined.
Hindwing: beige, with narrow brown terminal line with indistinct discal spot; fringes beige.
Underside: forewing grey brown; hindwing grey, with discal spot.
Male genitalia.
Tegumen: long, laterally narrow; dorso-laterally broader, platelike.
Vinculum: two branched; centre one barlike; posterior one branchlike, not curved.
Saccus: relatively long; broadly V-shaped.
Valvae: slightly asymmetrical.
Ampulla: bilobed; slightly asymmetrical; lobes tapered: dorsally broad fingerlike; ventrally broad and rounded; outer edge curved throughout (apo.)
Digitus: small, broad, quadrangular.
Anellus plate: basally asymmetrical, platelike; upwards extremely long, free, and subapically sharply angled, before tapered and upturned, pointed tip; heavily sclerotised rodlike structure; all free structures clothed with stout setae (apo.).
Phallus: coecum relatively long and smoothly rounded; broadest at large, triangularly process at tip; almost straight (apo.).
Vesica: armed with a small, slightly curved, heavily sclerotised rectangular plate (apo.).
Differential diagnosis.
F. gregerseni
differs from other
Fustis
species
in:
- large size;
- shape of ampulla, especially rounded very wide and long ventral arm;
- long, apically upturned, pointed anellus;
- phallus with large and triangular process at tip; and
- vesica with rectangular heavily sclerotised plate.
Distribution.
F. gregerseni
known only from W
Thailand
.