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 plumae
,
new species
(Figs.
120–122, 327
,
Map
22
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera plumae
is most similar to
G. minarum
but differs from the latter by having a wider base of the digitate process of the valva, a narrower valval cucullus, and a smaller apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus pale brown intermixed with few brown scales, inner surface pale brown; scape pale brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum pale brown; male
4
th flagellomere not protuberant,
5
th and
6
th flagellomeres slightly excavated; proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale brown. Legs pale brown [many scales missing]. Forewing (Fig.
327
): Length
7.6 mm
(n =
1
), pale yellow intermixed with pale brown and few brown scales. Undersurface pale brown. Hindwing: Pale brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
120
): Male with
4
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental areas between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
. Sex scales between terga
2–3
appear equal in size as sex scales between terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
121–122
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted above base, broadly rounded apically, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from posteroventral margin, and gradually widening to base of uncus; valva with costa straight from a shallow depression slightly beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to apical furca; furca falcate, with a wide base; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a small conical, apical cornutus, with a large dilated and hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Feb.
1996
, INBioOET” “
26
Feb.
1996
, L/04/
164
, Biblioteca”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
002, 057272” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
913
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
22
):
Glyphidocera plumae
is known from one collecting site in northcentral
Costa Rica
, north of San José.
Etymology: The species epithet
plumae
is derived from the Latin “pluma,” meaning feather.