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 crepidae
,
new species
(Figs.
222–224, 361
,
Map
41
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera crepidae
is most similar to
G. harenae
but differs from the latter by having an abdomen with fewer rows of sex scales between terga
2–3 in
male, an incomplete dorsal strut of tegumen, a shorter valva, costal furcae of valva not parallel [ventral furca apically upturned abruptly], and vesica of aedeagus with many spinelike cornuti.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown intermixed with few palebrown scales; labial palpus with outer surface of segments brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales to apical margin on segments I–II, segment III brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales; inner surface as above except with more pale brownishyellow scales on segments I–II; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale brown scales; male
4
th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere; proboscis pale brownish yellow.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs with segments brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales, tarsomeres brown with pale brownishyellow scales to apical margin. Forewing (Fig.
361
): Length
5.1 mm
(n =
1
), brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales; cell with
3
brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
2
spots slightly coalescent, at distal end parallel with crossvein; marginal spots brown. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
222
): Male with
2
transverse rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
223–224
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, slightly constricted above, parallelsided apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos densely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from posteroventral margin to
1
/
3
length, dorsally atrophied; valva with costa slightly sloped dorsally from a shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, inner margin Ushaped; dorsal furca falcate, ventral furca abruptly angled apically, slightly broader than dorsal furca; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva at midlength, forming a ventrally protracted cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many moderately elongate, spinelike cornuti, and bearing a large, crescentshaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
June
1994
, INBioOET”, “
28
Junio
1994
, Bosque secundario, L/06/
107
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
243975
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
904
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
41
):
Glyphidocera crepidae
is known from one collecting site in eastcentral Heredia in northern
Costa Rica
.
MAP 41.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera crepidae
() and
G. vestita
Walsingham
().
Etymology: The species epithet
crepidae
is derived from the Latin “crepida,” meaning slipper.