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 minarum
,
new species
(Figs.
111–113, 324
,
Map
21
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera minarum
is most similar to
G. plumae
but differs from the latter by having a narrower base of the digitate process of the valva, a wider valval cucullus, and a larger apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale yellow; labial palpus with outer surface brown intermixed with few paleyellow scales, segment II with paleyellow scales to near apical margin; inner margin pale yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with paleyellow scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and palebrown scales; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; proboscis pale yellow.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown with paleyellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
324
): Length
6.9 mm
(n =
1
), pale brown intermixed with few brown scales [most specimens are slightly rubbed]. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Elongate paleyellow scales except, with brown scales between basal half of Rs and anterior part of cell.
Abdomen (Fig.
111
): Male with
4
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental areas between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
. Sex scales between terga
2–3
about of equal size as sex scales between terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
112–113
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, slightly constricted at
1
/
3
, laterally rounded apically, apex attenuate and setose; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide basally, abruptly narrowed, forming a knoblike, apical process; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent from a wide base, fusing medially and broadly from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; valva nearly straight from a shallow depression slightly beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to apical furca; furca falcate, with a wide base; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly widened cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing an elongate, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus abruptly dilated basally, 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
,
Aug.
1993
, INBioOET” “
18
Agosto
1993
, Arboleola, L/05/063”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
234693
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
897
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
21
):
Glyphidocera minarum
is known from one collecting site in northcentral
Costa Rica
, north of San José.
MAP 21.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera minarum
() and
G. ciatae
(). White triangle within a black circle indicates a shared locality.
Etymology: The species epithet
minarum
is derived from the Latin “minarus,” meaning threats.