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
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Glyphidocera comae
,
new species
(Figs.
132–134, 331
,
Map
24
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera comae
is most similar to
G. animae
but differs from the latter species by having a basally narrower tegumen, a basally narrower dorsal strut of the tegumen, and a more protuberant furcal bifurcation of the valval costa.
Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish orange tipped with pale grayish orange; outer surface of labial palpus dark brown intermixed with grayishorange scales to near apical margin of segment II, inner surface pale grayish orange intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna dark brown, or brown intermixed with few grayishorange scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale grayishorange and brown scales; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a shallow concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; concavity nearly closed by setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere; proboscis pale grayish orange.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with scales grayish orange tipped with pale grayish orange. Legs grayish orange intermixed with pale grayishorange scales to near apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
331
): Length 6.0–
6.8 mm
(n =
8
), grayish orange intermixed with pale grayishorange and brown scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with
2
large brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot near distal end; basal streak, on CuP posterior to midcell spot; marginal spots present or absent. Undersurface brown intermixed with few pale grayishorange scales along costa. Hindwing: Pale grayish orange.
Abdomen (Fig.
132
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
, and
4
transverse, irrgeular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
3–4
. Sex scales between terga
2–3
are about
3
times larger than the sex scales between terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
133–134
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted at
1
/
3
, apically widened to nearly width of base, apex widely acuminate and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, narrow throughout length, apex rounded; tegumen nearly parallelsided throughout length; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from a widened base, extending narrowly to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a basal digitate process to an upturned and slightly constricted dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, furcae widely divergent, forming a Vshaped inner margin; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally forming an elongate and narrowly rounded cucullus, cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with several small, stout, conical cornuti, and bearing an elongate, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “P[arque] N[acional] Manuel Antonio,
80 m
, Quepos, Prov[incia] Puntarenas,
COSTA
RICA
,
Oct.
1992
, G. Varela, LS
370900
,
448800
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
000,
935555
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
568
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
7
ɗ):
3
ɗ, Same label data as
holotype
except, “R. Zuniga,
Ene.
1991
”, “
CRI
000,
366948
”, “Slide No.
617
”; “
120 m
, G. Varela & R. Zugina,
Nov.
1990
, LS
370900
,
449800
”, “
CRI
000,
226893
”, “Slide No.
548
”; “
Dic.
1990
, LS
370900
,
449800
”, “
CRI
000,
228205
”, “Slide No.
613
”;
4
ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est. Biol. La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Jan.
1993
, INBioOET”, “
11
Ene.
1993
, Bosque secundario, L0006”, “
CRI
001,
219245
”, “Slide No.
868
”; “
17
Octubre
1993
, Bosque primario, L/01/ 076”, “
CRI
001,
239939
”, “Slide No.
866
”; “
1
Julio
1994
, Lab. Area, L/04/
112
”, “
CRI
001,
244402
”, “Slide No.
867
”; “
11
Marzo
1996
, L/00/
181
,
STR
2050 m
”, “
CRI
001,
250751
”, “Slide No.
909
”, (
4 in
INBio
,
3 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
24
):
Glyphidocera comae
is known from three collecting sites in
Costa Rica
; one northcentral site north of the Cordillera Central, and two nearby sites in the southcentral part of the country along the coast.
Etymology: The species epithet
comae
is derived from the Latin word for hair coma.