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 lupae
,
new species
(Figs.
117–119, 326
,
Map
22
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera lupae
is most similar to
G. ciatae
but differs from the latter by having a spatulate gnathos, a shorter digitate process of the valva, a narrower valval cucullus, and a larger apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brownish yellow; outer surface of labial palpus pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales, outer surface pale yellowish brown; scape and flagellum of antenna pale yellowish brown; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; concavity nearly closed by setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere; proboscis pale brownish yellow.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale brownish yellow. Legs pale brownish yellow or pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales. Forewing (Fig.
326
): Length
6.1 –6.9 mm
(n =
4
), pale brownish yellow or pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; cell with
2
spots,
1
near middle,
1
near distal end [specimens with spots present or absent]; marginal spots present or absent. Undersurface pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales. Hindwing: Pale brownish yellow.
Abdomen (Fig.
117
): Male with
4
transverse, irregular rows of equalsized sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
118–119
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, parallelsided apically, apex slighted rounded and setose; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide basally, gradually narrowed to a spatulate apex; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing midway between posteroventral margin of tegumen, gradually widening to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight, apical furca falcate; base of costa bearing a slanted, digitate process; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, with several small spinelike cornuti, and bearing an elongate, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Monumento Nacional Guayabo, Prov[incia] Carta[go],
COSTA
RICA
,
1100 m
,
28
Set.–
21
Nov.
1994
, G. Fonseca, LN
217400
,
570000
, #
3285
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
002, 024744” [bar code label], “
INBio
, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No.
523
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
3
ɗ):
1
ɗ, Same label data as
holotype
except, “
Nov.
1994
, #
3287
”, “
CRI
002,
092549
”, “Slide No.
519
”; “Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, Estac. Carrillo,
700 m
, San José,
COSTA
RICA
,
Julio
1990
, I Curso Microlepidoptera”, “
CRI
000,
171159
”, “Slide No.
843
”, “
CRI
000,
171119
”, “Slide No.
845
”, (
2 in
INBio
,
1 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
22
):
Glyphidocera lupae
is known from two collecting sites in northcentral
Costa Rica
along the Cordillera Central.
Etymology: The species epithet
lupae
is derived from the Latin “lupa,” meaning a shewolf.