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 pali
,
new species
(Figs.
195–197, 352
,
Map
35
) Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera pali
is most similar to
G. barbae
but differs by having the dorsal strut of the tegumen with a narrower base (lateral arms fused medially and extending from posteroventral margin to base of uncus) and a more narrowly separate costal furcae of valva.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown; outer and inner surfaces of labial palpus pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown and darkbrown scales; scape of antenna pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale grayishbrown and brown 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 yellowish brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale grayish brown. Legs pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales, apical margins of all tarsomeres pale yellowish brown. Forewing (Fig.
352
): Length
7.1 mm
(n =
1
), pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales, with a faint brown spot near distal end of cell. Undersurface pale brown. Hindwing: Pale brown, scales within anal area slightly darker.
Abdomen (Fig.
195
): Male with two ellipticalshaped, pairs of sex scale clusters on intersegmental membrane between terga
2–3
and terga
3–4
; each cluster with
2
transverse rows of sex scales. Sex scales between terga
2–3
are slightly larger than the sex scales between terga
3–4
.
Male Genitalia (Figs.
196–197
): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly slightly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded distally, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from a widened base, extending narrowly to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a basal, digitate process to an upturned dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, inner margin Vshaped; furcae divergent, dorsal furca narrowly rounded apically, ventral furca pointed; base of costa bearing a long, slanted, digitate process; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many stout, conical cornuti, and bearing an elongate, apical cornutus; cornutus with a shortened side near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “
COSTA
RICA
, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva,
50–150 m
,
10
°
26
'N
,
84
°01'W
,
Feb.
1994
, INBioOET”, “
10
Febrero
1994
, Bosque primario, L/01/ 096”, “
INBio
:
COSTA
RICA
:
CRI
001,
259675
” [bar code label], “
INBio
, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No.
865
” [yellow label].
Distribution (
Map
35
):
Glyphidocera pali
is known from one collecting site in eastcentral Heredia in northern
Costa Rica
.
Etymology: The species epithet
pali
is derived from the Latin “palus,” meaning quagmire.