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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Dignus buchsbaumi
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 5
, figure 2; female genit. plate 23, figure 6)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
Indonesia
,
Lombok
centr.,
Senaru
,
Gg. Rinjani
, 8’18’02 S, 16’24’31 E,
515 m
,
28.vii.2003
, leg.
Ulf Buchsbaum
, genit. prep. 4646
M. Fibiger
, coll.
MF
, to be deposited in
ZSM
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
12 mm
.
Labial palps: porrect; second segment brown outside, beige inside, roughly scaled vertically; third segment 1/4 of second, narrow, brown.
Head, patagia, tegulae, thorax, and ground colour of forewing: dark greyish brown.
Crosslines: antemedial and subterminal lines well marked, black, almost straight; other lines weakly marked, except narrow terminal line (apo.).
Abdomen: dark grey, with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Reniform stigma: whitish yellow; black outlined.
Hindwing: grey, discal spot absent.
Underside: grey, costal area of both wings suffused with black scales, discal spot absent.
Female genitalia.
Ovipositor: quadrangular, with rounded corners.
Posterior apophyses: 2.5 times longer than ovipositor (apo.).
Anterior apophyses: as long as ovipositor (apo.).
7
th
abdominal segment: as long as broadest width; anteriorly heavily sclerotised, with long, lateral pockets (apo.).
7
th
and 8
th
abdominal segment: fused; slightly longer than broad.
8
th
abdominal segment: half as long as wide (apo.).
Ostium: displaced slightly to left; positioned anteriorly at 7
th
segment, at end of cylindrical postvaginal channel (apo.).
Antrum: narrow, short, ringlike (apo.).
Ductus bursae: membranous, very long and narrow; 3 times as long as corpus bursae.
Appendix bursae: arising posteriorly from ductus bursae.
Signum: cross shaped; longitudinal bar weaker and broader, platelike.
Distribution.
D. buchsbaumi
known only from type-locality,
Indonesia
,
Bali
.