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 vocis
,
new species
(Figs.
264–266, 375
,
Map
48
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera vocis
is most similar to
G. clavae
but differs from the latter by having a wider uncus, a smaller gnathos, a longer digitate process of the valva, costal furcae of the valval costa near parallel, and absence of an apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale yellow; outer surface of labial palpus pale yellow intermixed with few brown scales, inner surface pale yellow; scape pale yellow, flagellum with alternating bands of paleyellow and palebrown bands; male
4
th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a shallow concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres
5–6
[setiform scales associated with
4
th flagellomere missing]; proboscis pale yellow.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale yellow intermixed with few brown scales. Legs pale yellow. Forewing (Fig.
375
): Length
6.8 mm
(n =
1
), pale yellow intermixed with few brown scales;
3
brown spots within cell,
1
spot near midcell,
2
spots near distal end parallel with crossvein. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
264
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
265–266
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near
1
/
3
, widening near midlength, gradually narrowing to a sparsely setose and acuminate apex; gnathos sparsely setose, short, moderately widened throughout length; tegumen nearly parallelsided; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent along posteroventral margin, extending dorsally and atrophied; valva with costa nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a curved, basal, digitate process to dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, margin between furcae Ushaped; furcae parallel, ventral furca slightly longer than dorsal furca; base of costa with an elongate, slightly curved, digitate process; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many stout, conical cornuti.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Mar.
1996
, INBioOET”, “
19
Marzo
1996
, L/04/
188
, Biblioteca”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
257384
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
906
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
48
):
Glyphidocera vocis
is known from one collecting site in eastcentral Heredia in northern
Costa Rica
.
MAP 48.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera vocis
() and
G. c l a v a e
().
Etymology: The species epithet
vocis
is derived from the Latin “vox,” meaning voice.