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 raedae
,
new species
(Figs.
57–59, 306
,
Map
10
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera raedae
can be distinguished by a unique combination of features possessed that include a large gnathos that is apically setose, a digitate process of valva that is widened basally, a triangularshaped costal furca of the valva, a cucullus that is dilated from the base of the costal furca to the apicoventral angle, and the presence of a small apical cornutus within the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown; outer surface of labial palpus grayish brown intermixed with few yellowishbrown scales to apical margin of segment II, inner surface yellowish brown intermixed with few grayishbrown scales; scape of antenna grayish brown intermixed with yellowish brown scales, proximal
6–7
flagellomeres yellowish brown, distal flagellomeres with alternating bands of brown and yellowishbrown 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 yellowish brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum grayish brown. Legs grayish brown intermixed with yellowishbrown scales to near apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
306
): Length
5.9 mm
(n =
1
), grayish brown intermixed with yellowishbrown scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with
3
grayishbrown spots,
1
large spot near middle,
2
smaller spots at base and distal end. Undersurface grayish brown. Hindwing: Grayish brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
57
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga
2–3
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
58–59
): Uncus elongate, narrow throughout length, slightly constricted near midlength, apex narrowly rounded; gnathos setose, 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 the base of uncus; costa of valva distally upturned, with a slightly decumbent and acuminate apical furca; base of costa bearing a digitate process with a widened base; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly beyond midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with outer margin nearly straight from base of costal apex to apicoventral angle; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a stout, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus slightly shortened on one side, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] Sirena,
0–100 m
, P[arque] N[acional] Corcovado, Prov[incia] Puntarenas,
COSTA
RICA
, G. Fonseca,
Mar.
1992
, LS
270500
,
508300
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
000,
780430
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
789
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
10
):
Glyphidocera
raedae
is known from a single collecting site within the coastal area of the Osa Peninsula.
Etymology: The species epithet
raedae
is derived from the Latin “raeda,” meaning coach.