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 amitae
,
new species
(Figs.
180–182, 347
,
Map
33
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera amitae
is most similar to
G. z a m i a e
but differs from the latter by having costal furcae of the valva more narrowly divergent from base, a narrower cucullus, and small cornuti within the vesica of the aedeagus.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown; labial palpus with outer surface grayish brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales, inner surface pale brownish yellow intermixed with few grayishbrown scales; scape of antenna grayish brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of grayishbrown and pale brownishyellow scales; male
4
th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a shallow concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of
4
th flagellomere; proboscis pale grayish brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum grayish brown. Legs pale brownish yellow. Forewing (Fig.
347
): Length
8.8 mm
(n =
1
), pale brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales; cell with
2
faint grayish brown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot on distal end near crossvein. Undersurface pale grayish brown. Hindwing: Pale brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
180
): Male with pair of sex scale clusters, each with
6–7
transverse, irregular rows of scales, on intersegmental areas between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
181–182
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted about
1
/
3
, slightly rounded distally, apex narrowly rounded; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, narrow throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from shallow depression slightly beyond a basal, digitate process to an upturned dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, inner margin Vshaped; dorsal furca wide, with a rounded apex, ventral furca acuminate, slightly longer than dorsal furca; base of costa bearing a curved and slanted, digitate process; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly beyond midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica with denticulate, bearing a elongate, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Buen Amigo, San Luis Monteverde, Prov[incia] Punta[renas],
COSTA
RICA
,
1000–1350 m
,
Set.
1994
, Z. Fuentes, LN
250850
, 449250, #
3224
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
002,
022083
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No.
517
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
33
):
Glyphidocera amitae
is known from one collecting site in the cloud forests of Monteverde in westcentral
Costa Rica
along the southern part of the Cordillera de Tilarán.
MAP 33.
Distribution of
Glyphidocera amitae
() and
G. z a m iae
().
Etymology: The species epithet
amitae
is derived from the Latin “amita,” meaning aunt.