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 cauponae
,
new species
(Figs.
84–86, 315
,
Map
16
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera cauponae
can be distinguished from its congeners by the following unique combination of features: a broad dorsal strut of tegumen, an elongate digitate process of the valva, a short sacculus, an elongate and narrow cucullus of the valva, and an elongate furca of valval costa.
Description.— Head: Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with palebrown scales, segment II with palebrown scales along apical margin; inner surface pale brown; scape of antenna pale brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and palebrown scales; male
4
th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; concavity open, setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere absent; proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale brown or pale brown intermixed with few brown scales. Legs brown intermixed with palebrown scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
315
): Length 8.0–
8.5 mm
(n =
4
), pale brown intermixed with few grayishorange and brown scales; basal area with one short, brown streak on Radius or streak absent; cell with
4
brown spots,
2
near midcell,
2
near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brownish gray.
Abdomen (Fig.
84
): Male with
4
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
. Sex scales from both areas are of about equal size.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
85–86
): Uncus elongate, wide basally, slightly constricted near
1
/
3
, wide at midlength narrowing apically to an acuminate apex; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms abruptly convergent, fusing widely from posteroventral margin of tegumen to base of uncus; costa of valva slightly emarginate from beyond a shallow depression beyond an elongate, basal digitate process to apical furca; furca elongate, and slightly upturned; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, slightly widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and narrow cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus densely spinulate, bearing a large apical cornutus; cornutus shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] La Carsona,
1520 m
, Res[erva] Biol[ógica] Monteverde, Prov[incia] Punt[arenas],
COSTA
RICA
,
Dic.
1992
, N. Obando, LN
253250
,
449700
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
358275
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia slide by D. Adamski, No.
840
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
3
ɗ):
1
ɗ, “Est. Cacao,
1000–1400 m
,
Lado
SO Vol. Cacao, P.N.G., Prov. Guan.,
COSTA
RICA
, C. Chaves & R. Espinoza,
Nov.Dic.
1990
, LN
323300
,
375700
”, “
CRI
0 0 0, 544652”, “Slide No.
947
”;
1
ɗ, “
1100 m
,
8–18
Feb.
1995
, M. Moraga, LN
323100
,
375800
, #
4623
”, “Slide No.
940
”;
1
ɗ, “Est. La Casona,
1520 m
, Res. Biol. Monteverde, Prov. Puntarenas,
COSTA
RICA
,
Ago.
1992
, N. Obando, LN
253250
,
449700
”, “
CRI
000,
947147
”, “Slide No.
510
”, (
2 in
INBio
,
1 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
16
):
Glyphidocera cauponae
is known from four collecting sites in
Costa Rica
; two nearby sites in the northwest along the Cordillera de Guanacaste, one site along the southern side of the Cordillera Central in the westcentral part of the country, and one site in north near the Caribbean coast.
MAP 16.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera
cauponae
() and
G. s a rd a e
(). Outlying circles indicate multiple adjacent localities.
Etymology: The species epithet
cauponae
is derived from the Latin word for tavern caupona.