Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae)
Author
DAVID ADAMSKI
text
Zootaxa
2005
858
1
158
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.170793
94a0cedb-15bb-4bfd-955e-77200a536045
1175-5334
170793
511FBF55-10F2-4A00-B15B-CBD34EAB023E
Glyphidocera cellae
,
new species
(Figs.
42–44, 296
,
Map
8
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera cellae
can be distinguished from its congeners by a unique combination of features including a narrow gnathos with an acutely upturned apex, a costal furca with a broadly rounded apex, a shortened sacculus, a slightly constricted area beyond sacculus, an absence of an apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica, and vesica of aedeagus with many spinelike cornuti.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brownish yellow; outer surface of segments I–II brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales to near apical margin, segment III brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales; inner surface pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna pale brownish yellow, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale brownishyellow scales, male
4
th flagellomere without dorsal protuberance, flagellomeres
5–6
slightly excavated; proboscis pale brownish yellow.
Thorax: Tegula brown intermixed with few brownishyellow scales; mesonotum brownish yellow. Legs brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales. Forewing (Fig.
296
): Length
5.1 mm
(n =
1
), basal
2
/
3
pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales, distal
1
/
3
brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales; cell with
2
brown spots,
1
near middle,
1
near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale grayish brown basally, gradually darkening to apex.
Abdomen (Fig.
42
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
43–44
): Uncus elongate, parallelsided from a wide base to an acuminate apex; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide basally, gradually narrowed distally, apex abruptly upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially and narrowly from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa slightly upturned from slightly beyond base to apical furca; furca wide, broadly rounded apically; basal digitate process of valva absent; sacculus moderately twisted, slightly constricting valva near midlength, slightly widening distoventrally, forming a broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a narrowly rounded outer margin beneath apex of costa; vesica of aedeagus with many moderately long, spinelike cornuti.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “San Luis, Monteverde, Prov[incia] Punta[renas],
COSTA
RICA
,
1000 1350 m
,
Jul.
1994
, Z. Fuentes, LN
250850
, #
3074
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
002, 025736” [bar code label], “
INBio
, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No.
504
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
8
):
Glyphidocera cellae
is known from one collecting site in the cloud forests of Monteverde in westcentral
Costa Rica
along the southern part of the Cordillera de Tilarán.
Etymology: The species epithet
cellae
is derived from the Latin “cella,” meaning room.