3071 Author Zelazny, B. Author Webb, M. D. text Zootaxa 2011 2011-10-28 3071 1 307 journal article 1175­5334 Rhotana fordi Zelazny , sp. nov. ( Figs. 27 , 225 ) Description. Forewings 1.7 times longer than wide, length about 5.5 mm . Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae light brown; clypeus except at its base orange. Forewings with some apical cross-veins and a short section of Sc faintly orange. Male genitalia with sides of pygofer bearing prominent projections; anal segment with a pair of short lateral processes. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process triangular; distal dorsal process slender and erect, curved outwards. Both processes widely separated. Aedeagus short and broad; apical portion with a prominent pointed process at its base, and another broad, pointed process on its ventral side; end truncated. Etymology . The species is named for the collector and ' fordi ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case. Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 5.5 mm ), PAPUA NEW GUINEA : PAPUA ; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: PAPUA / Brown River / May 21–25-1956 2) E.J. Ford , Jr./ light trap ( BPBM ). Note. Figure 27 shows a male specimen from Bainyik , Papua in AMS ( 20.XII.1963 , D.K. McAlpine , J.W. Evans collection, ASCTHE017620). The photograph has been provided by Murray J. Fletcher , who also identified the specimen . Distribution . New Guinea (Papua). Diagnosis. Rhotana fordi is externally indistinguishable from R. similis sp. nov. and very similar to R. dentata sp. nov. , both also from New Guinea . It can be separated from both by the triangular ventral process on the apical part of the male aedeagus.