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 clavae
,
new species
(Figs.
267–269, 376
,
Map
48
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera clavae
is most similar to
G. vocis
but differs from the latter by having a narrower uncus, a larger gnathos, a shorter digitate process of the valva, divergent costal furcae of the valva, and presence of an apical cornutus of the aedeagus.
Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with few palebrown scales along apical margins of segments I–II; inner surface pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown, 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
[many setiform scales associated with
4
th flagellomere missing]; proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with palebrown scales along margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
376
): Length
6.9 mm
(n =
2
), pale brown intermixed with brown scales; cell with
2
brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Grayish brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
267
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
268–269
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded apically and setose, apex narrowly rounded; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen absent; costa of valva gradually sloped dorsally from a shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to dorsal furca: apex bifurcate, furcae apically rounded, with dorsal furca nearly at right angle to ventral furca; sacculus twisted apically slightly beyond midlength, constricting valva, forming a broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many spinelike cornuti, and bearing a small, crescentshaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Sector Cocori,
30 km
al N de Cariari, Prov[incia] Limón,
COSTA
RICA
,
100 m
,
Nov.
1993
, E. Rojas, LN
286000
,
567500
, #
2474
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
652468
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
692
” [yellow label].
Paratype
1
ɗ, same label data as
holotype
except, “
Dic.
1991
”, “
CRI
000,
361216
”, “Slide No.
693
.”
Distribution (
Map
48
):
Glyphidocera clavae
in known from one collecting site in northcentral
Costa Rica
.
Etymology: The species epithet
clavae
is derived from the Latin word for club.