New and poorly known Acrolepiinae from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae)
Author
Gaedike, Reinhard
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2016
2016-12-20
66
2
257
264
https://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/article/view/1905
journal article
2510
10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.257-264
cdc3d462-a67d-4a54-b403-dae1af013526
0005-805X
4754080
Acrolepiopsis lativalvata
spec. nov.
Holotype
, ♂, “
RSA
,
North Cape
,
Kamieskroon
,
Farm Windhoek
,
16.x.2007
, leg.
W. Mey
;” “Bachtal, ca
2 km
oberh. Farmhaus
[
stream valley, appr.
2 km
above farm house
];” “Gen. präp. [
genitalia
slide] Gaedike Nr. 7529;” “Holotypus
Acrolepiopsis lativalvata
sp. n.
det.
R. Gaedike
2016;”
ZMHB
.
Derivatio nominis
: Named after the broad apical part of the valvae.
Diagnosis
(Fig. 3): Wingspan
10 mm
. Head dark grey, scales with whitish tip; labial palpus with same colouration, segments apically whitish. Scape of antenna dark grey, flagellum ringed, thorax and tegulae with same colouration as head. Forewing with dark grey scales, apically white; at 1/3 on dorsum wedge-shaped white patch, characteristic for the genus, reaching the cell, white are also four thin stripes on costa between 2/3 and apex, the area around the stripes overlaid with white scales. The fringe basally with some minute white dots; fringe with two dark scale-lines. One dark grey-brown patch on costa between 1/2 and the first stripe, another patch on dorsum lateral of the wedge-shaped patch. Hindwing grey.
Male
genitalia
(
Figs 14–16
): Vinculum laterally narrow, ventrally triangular with a long narrow saccus with rounded tip; valva basally rounded, with long bristles, first third narrowest, the apical part broader, apically truncated with rounded angles; phallus slightly curved, basally broad rounded, narrower towards apex, as long as the entire
genitalia
apparatus.
Female
genitalia
: Unknown.
Remarks
: Superficially characterized by scales with white tips and the pattern on apical third of forewing. The broad valvae distinguish the species from the other taxa in this genus.