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 gazae
,
new species
(Figs.
135–137, 332
,
Map
25
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera gazae
can be distinguished from its congeners by a unique combination of features including the male abdomen lacking sex scales, gnathos small, dorsal strut of tegumen widened basally and narrowed gradually to base of uncus, furcae of valval costa widened, and cucullus slightly upturned from valval constriction near distal end.
Description. Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with palebrown scales to margin of segment II, segment III brown; inner margin pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few palebrown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of palebrown and brown scales; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; proboscis brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with few palebrown scales to near apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
332
): Length 6.0–7.0 mm (n =
6
), pale brown intermixed with brown scales; cell with a small brown spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale yellow intermixed with few pale grayishbrown scales.
Abdomen (Fig.
135
): Male with sex scales absent.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
136–137
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near
1
/
3
, broadly rounded distally, apex acuminate; gnathos protuberant, wide basally, gradually narrowed distally, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent from a widened base, extending dorsally to base of uncus; costa of valva slightly emarginate broadly from a shallow depression beyond a basal digitate process to a slightly upturned dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, each furca about equal in size, divergent; base of costa bearing a slanted, subapically downcurved digitate process; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, slightly widening distoventrally forming an elongate and shallowly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing an elongate, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near base, slightly exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] Pitilla,
700 m
,
9 km
, S S[an]ta Cecilia, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste],
COSTA
RICA
, C. Moraga,
Abr.
1991
, LN
330200
,
380200
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
000,
484530
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
760
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
5
ɗ):
1
ɗ, Same label data as
holotype
except, “
19–23
Jun.
1993
, P. Rios, #
2175
”, “
CRI
001,
835087
”, “Slide No.
764
”;
1
ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est. Biol. La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Jan.
1994
, INBioOET”, “
10
Enero
1994
, Bosque secundario, L/06/
91
”, “
CRI
001,
258948
”, “Slide No.
896
”;
1
ɗ, “
28
Junio
1994
, Lab. Area, L/04/
106
”, “
CRI
001,
243664
”, “Slide No.
915
”;
1
ɗ, “
19
Feb.
1996
, Arboleda, L/ 05/059”, “
CRI
001,
250075
”;
1
ɗ, “
11
Marzo
1996
, L/00/
180
,
STR
1850 m
”, “
CRI
001,
250759
”, (
3 in
INBio
,
2 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
25
):
Glyphidocera gazae
is known from two collecting sites in
Costa Rica
; one site in the northwest along the Cordillera de Guanacaste and one site in the northcentral part of the country, north of the Cordillera Central.
MAP 25.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera gazae
() and
G. virgulae
(). White triangle within a black circle indicates a shared locality.
Etymology: The specific epithet
gazae
is derived from the Latin “gaza,” meaning royal treasure.