Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea;
Author
Koo, Jun-Mo
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644 Korea.
Author
Minet, Joël
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-02
4845
2
151
190
journal article
8554
10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1
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Torodora bariella
(
Viette, 1958
)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs. 6
A–E)
Lecithocera bariella
Viette, 1958: 114
. TL: Sakahara, Lambomakandro forest.
Type
.
1♂
(
Holotype
),
South
Madagascar
,
Sakaraha Dist.
,
Lambomakandro forest
, road to
Tuléar
[
Toliara
], at km 808,
6-9 iv 1956
,
P. Griveaud
leg.; 359
R
;
Lecithocera bariella
n. sp.
,
Holotype
,
P. Viette
; genitalia: prep.
P. Viette
no. 3529.
Adult
(
Figs. 6A, B
). Wingspan,
21 mm
. The species can be distinguished from its allies by the forewing without distinct marking, but the postmedian band very weakly visible. The male genitalia are similar to those of
M. ankasokella
,
but the cucullus narrowed apically with gently arched outer margin. Abdominal segments (
Fig. 6E
) have dense spinose zones along posterior margin from segment I to VII.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 6C, D
): See also the line drawing given by
Viette (1958
,
Fig. 2
). Uncus narrowly elongated. Basal plate of gnathos with rounded caudal margin; median process small, with acute apex. Valva deeply concave on costa, with elongated cucullus; ventral margin arched, emarginated at lower corner. Juxta with short, semi-ovate latero-caudal lobes. Aedeagus as long as valva, broadened basally, gently concave on ventral margin medially, dorsal margin produced apically; cornuti consisting of numerous conic spines and double lows of spinules.
Distribution
.
Madagascar
(West) (
Viette, 1958
).