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 personae
,
new species
(Figs.
141–143, 334
,
Map
26
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera personae
is similar to
G. virgulae
but differs from the latter by having a narrower base of the dorsal strut of the tegumen, a shorter digitate process of the valva, and a less protracted outer margin of the valval cucullus.
Description.— Head: Vertex brown; frontoclypeus grayish yellow; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with few grayishyellow scales, segment II with grayishyellow scales along apical margin; inner surface pale grayish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna grayish yellow intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of grayishyellow and brown scales; male
4
th flagellomere distally dilated, protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite deeply excavated flagellomeres
5–6
; proboscis pale grayish brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with few pale grayishyellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig.
334
): Length 5.0–
5.1 mm
(n =
2
), brown intermixed with grayishyellow and darkbrown scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with
2
darkbrown spots,
1
spot near middle,
1
spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown.
Abdomen (Fig.
141
): Male with
3
transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
, and
1
transverse, irregular row of sex scales between terga
3–4
. Sex scales between terga
2–3
appear three times larger than sex scales between terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
142–143
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded apically, apex acuminate; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen convergent from a wide base, fused dorsally midway between posteroventral margin and base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from shallow, basal depression beyond a basal, digitate process to an upturned dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, Ushaped margin between furcae, each furca equal in size and parallel; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly beyond midlength, widening distoventrally forming an elongate and distally protracted cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with outer margin broadly rounded; vesica of aedeagus denticilate, with many stout, conical cornuti, and bearing a large, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with a bulbous basal part with one shortened side, exposing a large, hollow, cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Apr.
1996
, INBioOET” “
22
Abril
1996
, L/00/
223
”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
002,
060743
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
861
” [yellow label].
Paratype
1
ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, Fca. de E. Rojas,
150 m
, Prov. Limón,
COSTA
RICA
, E. Rojas,
31
Ene.–
21
Feb.
1992
, LN
286000
,
567500
”, “
CRI
000,
785447
”, “Slide No.
706
.”
Distribution (
Map
26
):
Glyphidocera personae
is known from two collecting sites in northcentral
Costa Rica
, north of the Cordillera Central.
Etymology: The species epithet
personae
is derived from the Latin “persona,” meaning mask.