New taxa of extant and fossil primitive moths in South-East Asia and their biogeographic significance (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae, Agathiphagidae, Lophocoronidae)
Author
Mey, Wolfram
Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity Research, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany; wolfram. mey @ mfn. de, Theo. Leger @ mfn. berlin
Author
Leger, Theo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7330-3940
Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity Research, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany; wolfram. mey @ mfn. de, Theo. Leger @ mfn. berlin
Author
Lien, Vu Van
Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Hanoi, Vietnam; vulien @ vnmn. vast. vn
text
Nota Lepidopterologica
2021
2021-03-10
44
29
56
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.44.52350
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.44.52350
2367-5365-44-29
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Agathiphagama
gen. nov.
Type
species.
Agathiphagama perdita
sp. nov., Gender: feminine.
Etymology.
Composed of the generic name
Agathiphaga
and the added syllable
"ma"
.
Diagnosis.
Burmese amber, middle-sized species, terminal segments of maxillary palpi annulated, basal segment of labial palpi with dorsal hair-brush, tibial spurs 1.3.4., epiphysis present on short foretibia, forewings with
R
1 shortly branched into
R
1a and
R
1b, female with long, telescoping ovipositor, apophyses posteriores fused in apical half into a single apophysis extending in midline towards slender papillae anales.
The fossil genus differs from extant homoneurous moths of
Agathiphaga
Dumbleton, 1952 by differences in the morphology of the maxillary and labial palpi, the spur formula 1.3.4. (1.4.4. in
Agathiphaga
) and the long, fused terminal part of the apophyses posteriores (shorter in
Agathiphaga
).
The flexible form of the terminal segment of the maxillary palpi seems to be due to a mottled loss of sclerotization, which gives the segment an annulated appearance. In
Agathiphaga
, this segment is very short and not annulated (
Dumbleton 1952
).
The
new genus is here assigned to
Agathiphagidae
. An alternative placement considered was the establishment of a new family as sister to
Agathiphagidae
in
Agathiphagoidea
. However, there is presently insufficient morphological basis to establish a new family.
Description.
See description of
A. perdita
sp. nov. below.