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 rubetae
,
new species
(Figs.
216–218, 359
,
Map
40
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera rubetae
can be distinguished from its congeners by a unique combination of characters that includes the dorsal strut of the tegumen with arms fused medially from the base of the posteroventral margin to midlength (forming a widened, pigmented, angular area from midlength to base of uncus), the digitate process of valva widened basally, the dorsal furca of valval costa long and extending beyond ventral furca, and the outer margin of the valval cucullus narrowly rounded.
Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer and inner surfaces of labial palpus brown intermixed with palebrown scales to segment II; scape brown intermixed with palebrown scales, 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
; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere; proboscis brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with brown scales tipped with pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with palebrown scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
359
): Length 5.0–6.0 mm (n =
5
), brown intermixed with palebrown and pale brownishyellow scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with
2
brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot near distal end [rubbed specimens with spots faint or absent]. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
216
): Male with
4
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
217–218
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near
1
/
3
, broadly rounded apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms fused medially from base of posteroventral margin to midlength, extending dorsally, gradually widening to base of uncus; costa of valva broadly rounded from shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to a falcate dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, margin between furcae deeply dissected; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally forming a broadly rounded and narrow cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus densely denticulate, bearing a large, crescentshaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, F[in]ca de E. Rojas,
150 m
, Prov[incia] Limón,
COSTA
RICA
, E. Rojas,
Nov.
1991
, LN
286000
,
567500
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
000,
364110
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
705
” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(
4
ɗ):
2
ɗ, Same label data as
holotype
except, “
Dic.
1991
”, “
CRI
000,
361186
”, “Slide No.
709
”; “
CRI
000,
760981
”, “Slide No.
715
”;
1
ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est. Biol. La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Oct.
1993
, INBioOET”, “
12
Octubre
1993
, Bosque secundario, L/03/073”, “
CRI
001,
239727
”, “Slide No.
887
”;
1
ɗ, “Est. HitoyCerere, Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere, R. Cerere,
200 m
, Prov. Limón,
COSTA
RICA
, M. Barrelier,
Oct.
1990
, LN
184200
,
643300
”, “
CRI
000,
314028
”, “Slide No.
849
”, (
2 in
INBio
,
2 in
USNM
).
Distribution (
Map
40
):
Glyphidocera rubetae
is known from two collecting sites from northcentral
Costa Rica
north of the Cordillera Central and one site in the northeastern part of the country, north of the Cordillera de Talamanca near the Panamian border.
Etymology: The species epithet
rubetae
is derived from the Latin “rubeta,” meaning toad.