Eight new species of the genus Promalactis (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Indonesia, with a checklist of the genus
Author
Kim, Sora
Author
Heppner, John B.
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
text
Journal of Natural History
2017
2017-08-15
51
29 - 30
1671
1695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1353154
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2017.1353154
1464-5262
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Promalactis mooatana
Kim
,
sp. nov.
Diagnosis
This species is close to
Promalactis superimposita
Wang, Du & Li, 2013
, in the wing pattern, but it can be easily distinguished by the tougue-shaped gnathos and the aedeagus with blunt sub-apex and the longer cornutus in the male genitalia.
Description
Adult (
Figures 2j
,
3j
).
Head. Frons pale yellowish white. Vertex white basally tinged with dark brown; occiput yellowish dark brown. Antenna with scape white entirely, as long as diameter of eye; flagellum white from base to one-quarter, white and dark brown alternately from one-quarter to apex dorsally. Labial palpus with yellowish brown of second segment and dark brown of third segment; third segment shorter than second segment. Thorax: Thorax and tegula yellowish dark brown. Wingspan 10.0–
10.5 mm
. Fore wing ground colour yellowish brown; two bands and one costal patch; all these white markings edged with fuscous scales: subbasal band very oblique, from base of costal margin towards one-sixth of posterior margin, not reaching posterior margin; antemedial band arched, from one-quarter of costal margin to one-third of posterior margin; costal patch at two-thirds, semi-circular; apical patch not developed; fuscous suffusions before tornus and near apex; fringes brownish yellow two-thirds of posterior margin to apex, darker near tornus. Hind wing ground colour and fringes greyish brown.
Male genitalia (
Figure
4g
, 4
ga–c).
Uncus triangular, wide at base, gradually narrowed toward apex, longer than gnathos. Gnathos tougue-shaped, shorter than uncus, gradually wider toward apex; apex round. Valva symmetrical, rectangular, shorter than uncus plus tegumen, split apex; cucullus club-shaped, setose caudally, as long as sacculus; sacculus middle finger-shaped, thicker than cucullus, setose entirely. Saccus a funnelshaped, as long as tegumen. Aedeagus straight from base to two-fifths, gradually thicker from two-fifths to sub-apex, sub-apex about twice width of base. Cornutus two-thirds length of aedeagus.
Female unknown.
Holotype
Male.
Indonesia
,
north Sulawesi
Lake Mooat
,
1050 m
, northeast Kotamobagu
20 km
,
26–30 October 1985
,
J.B. Heppner
, gen. slide
No.
9316/
S. Kim.
Distribution
Indonesia
(
Sulawesi
: North).
Etymology
The specific name refers to collection locality, Lake ‘
Mooat
’, plus the Latin suffix – ‘
ana
’.