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 burpurae
,
new species
(Figs.
123–125, 328
,
Map
23
)
Diagnosis.— Relationships between
Glyphidocera burpurae
and its congeners are difficult to determine because of the unique combinations of features possessed by the former that include, with
4
short, transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on medial surface of intersegmental area between terga
2–3 in
male, a wide gnathos, a valva with a basally widened and falcate costal furca, and an elongate and narrow apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with few palebrown scales, segment II with palebrown scales along apical margin; inner surface pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few palebrown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of palebrown and brown scales; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with palebrown scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
328
): Length 5.0–
5.2 mm
(n =
3
), brown intermixed with palebrown scales; cell with
2
faint brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Darker brown than forewing.
Abdomen (Fig.
123
): Male with
4
short, transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on medial surface of intersegmental area between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
124–125
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, gradually narrowed near
1
/
4
, parallsided apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially and narrowly from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa of valva slightly upturned from a shallow depression beyond a basal digitate process to apical furca; furca falcate, with a wide base, and a small toothlike process beneath on posteroventral margin; sacculus twisted apically near midlength, constricting valva, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus sparsely denticulate, bearing a conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with a shortened side near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] Sirena,
0–100 m
, P[arque] N[acional] Corcovado, Prov[incia] Punt[arenas],
COSTA
RICA
, G. Fonseca,
Jun.
1991
, LS
270500
,
508300
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
000,
646538
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
790
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
2
ɗ):
1
ɗ, Same label data as
holotype
except, “
CRI
000,
587986
”, “Slide No.
788
”;
1
ɗ, “May”, “
CRI
000,
646539
”, “Slide No.
796
”, (
1 in
INBio
,
1 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
23
):
Glyphidocera burpurae
is known from one coastal collecting site in southeastern
Costa Rica
, south of the Osa Peninsula.
MAP 23.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera burpurae
() and
G. a n i m a e
().
Etymology: The species epithet
burpurae
is derived from the Latin “burpura,” meaning royalty.