A revision of the Cossulinae of Costa Rica and cladistic analysis of the world species (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)
Author
Davis, Steve R.
Author
Gentili-Poole, Patricia
Author
Mitter, Charles
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2008
2008-10-31
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journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00406.x
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BIOCELLATA BIFIDA
SP. NOV.
(
FIGS 22
,
55, 56
,
90
,
136
)
Male
(
Fig. 22
): Forewing length:
15–17 mm
.
Head:
Antenna with shaft and rami creamy white; labial palpus brown dorsally, creamy white with some light brown ventrally; frons creamy white; vertex creamy white, irrorated with brownish grey.
Thorax:
Patagia creamy white, heavily irrorated with brownish grey; dorsum and tegula with scales creamy white and creamy white basally, greyish brown apically; pleura cream; venter mostly brown with some cream. Legs with femur and tibia cream, irrorated with brown; fore tarsi cream, light brown, and brown; mid and hind tarsi brown, banded creamy brown distally on each tarsomere. Forewing creamy white with numerous grey transverse striae throughout wing dorsally; the two most distinct and largest of these striae located basally and medially along wing; subcostal region creamy white and mostly lacking striae; numerous short, transverse, grey and dark brown striae along costal margin; two dark brown to fuscous spots subterminally; fringe banded light creamy gold and brownish grey; forewing mostly light brown ventrally with some cream; numerous short, transverse, dark brown striae along costal margin. Hindwing creamy white dorsally; some creamy light brown along apical margin; fringe can be slightly banded grey and creamy white, but mostly creamy white; hindwing mostly creamy white ventrally.
Figures 95–100.
Male genitalia, lateral view of genital capsule: 95,
Spinulata quasivinnea
; 96,
Simplicivalva ampliophilobia
; 97,
Magulacra niveogrisea
; 98,
Cossula arpi
; 99,
Cossula buspina
; 100,
Cossula coerulescens
. Scale bar = 1.0 mm.
Abdomen:
Mostly cream and creamy white dorsally; cream and brown ventrally; A8 cream with slight light brown.
Male genitalia
(
Figs 55, 56
,
90
): Valva subtrapezoidal, approximately 0.9¥ length of genital capsule; gnathos–uncus expanse approximately 0.5¥ length of genital capsule; saccular process absent, with sacculus heavily sclerotized and bearing flattened rugosities; juxta process small and slender; bridge of gnathos strongly bifurcate, with extending arms slightly upcurved and apex of each arm acute; each arm with a serrate ridge ventrally; uncus shallowly bifurcate, with apices acute. Aedoeagus with sclerotized plate formed mediad, where juxta attaches; rostellum long and slender, inwardly curving, with apex acuminate as viewed laterally; a patch of triangular spines on one side, along margin where vesica emerges from aedoeagus; rostellum becoming slightly more narrow than aedoeagus as viewed ventrally, with apex rounded.
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution:
Known only from
Heredia
and
Limon
Provinces,
Costa Rica
.