A preliminary study of the genus Nymphicula Snellen from Australia, New Guinea and the south Pacific (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Acentropinae)
Author
Agassiz, David
text
Zootaxa
2014
3774
5
401
429
journal article
46265
10.11646/zootaxa.3774.5.1
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Nymphicula susannae
sp. n.
Description of imago
(fig. 44). Wingspan
13 mm
. Head pale fuscous; labial palpus terminal segment pale straw; second segment clothed with brown scales; antenna pale fuscous. Thorax pale fuscous mixed ochreous.
Forewing base fuscous; antemedian fascia whitish suffused with yellow, outwardly edged fuscous; middle section of costa yellow mixed fuscous; median zone with dark fuscous scales most dense in middle; first strigula yellow on costa, inwardly edged fuscous; second strigula also inwardly edged fuscous, lower two-thirds leaden; terminal area yellow; tornal spot curved and pointed towards disc, shining leaden; terminal cilia with fuscous scales, a white wedge above tornus.
Hindwing base white mixed fuscous; tornal spot silver grey followed by a yellow streak from dorsum; subbasal fascia brownish; antemedian fascia fuscous enclosing whitish lunule; median zone irregularly scattered dark brown scales; submarginal line strong, irregular; five distinct eye-spots, each with silver stud on inner side, yellow against termen, a large silver spot before first eye-spot. Legs straw, dark brown above on tibia and tarsi.
Tympanal organs
(fig. 44) Venulae diverging anteriorly with a small protrusion near the tympanal organs, venula media short.
Male
genitalia
not known.
Female genitalia
(fig. 87) Corpus bursae only moderately long, like a long balloon, signa extending for three quarters of its length, at anterior end a strongly scobinate band, becoming weaker posteriorly.
Material examined.
Holotype
♀ in
BMNH
labelled Hydrographer Mts.| Brit. N. G.
2500ft
. | Feb.Mar..1918 | (Eichhorn bros),
BMNH
Pyralidae
slide No. 17512
Diagnosis.
differs from
torresalis
in the weak subterminal line of the hindwing which is less straight than in
torresalis
.
Derivation.
after my daughter Susan who endured my studies.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality.