Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea;
Author
Koo, Jun-Mo
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644 Korea.
Author
Minet, Joël
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-02
4845
2
151
190
journal article
8554
10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1
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1175-5326
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Parkiana adelella
(
Viette, 1955
)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs. 1
A–E)
Lecithocera adelella
Viette, 1955a: 110
. TL:
Madagascar
, near Maroantsetra.
Idiopteryx adella
(sic!);
Park, 2018: 1085
.
Type.
1♂
(
holotype
),
North-East
Madagascar
, near
Maroantsetra
,
Ambodivoangy forest
,
23–27.iii.1952
,
P. Viette
leg.; Muséum Paris,
Mission P. Viette
(
Sept. 1951
-
Mar. 1952
);
Lecithocera adelella
n. sp.
,
Holotype
♂
,
P. Viette
; genitalia: prep.
P. Viette
no. 2838.
Adults
(
Figs. 1A, B
). Wingspan,
16 mm
. The antenna and the forewing shape are well in accordance with those of the genus
Parkiana
, and the hind wing venation with M
3
and CuA
1
coincident. The male genitalia are similar to those of
Thubdora
with narrowly elongated uncus and similar shape of the valva.Abdominal segments have spinose zones on dorsal surface (
Fig. 1E
).
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 1
C–D): See also the line drawing given by
Viette (1955
, Fig. 32). Uncus broad at base and narrower toward apex. Valva broad basally, deeply concave on costal margin. Juxta with small, triangular laterocaudal processes. Aedeagus stout, with more than 10 conic spines.
Distribution
.
Madagascar
(East) (Viette, 1955a).