Review of the Afrotropical genus Dracontogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight new species
Author
Aarvik, Leif
Author
Karisch, Timm
Author
Marthinsen, Gunnhild
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-11
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345
372
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.32
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Dracontogena bjornstadi
Aarvik & Karisch
,
new species
(
Figs. 8
,
26
,
39, 40
)
Type
material.
Holotype
, 3,
TANZANIA
:
Bukoba District
:
Minziro Forest
,
1180 m
.,
8.ii.1991
,
A. Bjørnstad
24226, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2733 (
NHMO
)
.
Description. Adult. Male (
Fig. 8
). Head: Blackish brown. Antenna dark brown. Labial palpus 1.5 times diameter of eye, blackish brown, extreme tip white. Thorax: Dark grey, white patch in front, ochreous and white posterior scale tuft; tegulae white, ochreous posteriorly. Legs dark grey, tarsi with paler rings, hind tibia with grey scale tuft. Wingspan 24.0 mm. Forewing upperside brownish black, brown suffusion dominant at dorsum at tornus; connection of white dorsal maculae interrupted; outer white macula with two small dark dots on dorsum. Hindwing dark brownish grey; basal scales modified, narrow, black; termen strongly notched before anal corner; no fringes present along termen from apex to notch.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 39, 40
). Valva broad, with moderate scale patch; phallus (
Fig. 40
) long, 831 μm., broadest in middle, with ca. 112 small cornuti counted from their attachment sockets. Tergite 8 (
Fig. 26
) short, with distinct lateral incisions.
Female unknown.
Diagnosis.
D. bjornstadi
n. sp.
resembles the two other species with a strongly notched hindwing,
D. continentalis
and
D. angolensis
n. sp.
In the genitalia it differs from
D. continentalis
by the broader valva and the much higher number of cornuti, as well as the differently shaped 8th tergite. From
D. angolensis
it differs by the more slender phallus and more numerous cornuti.
Distribution. Known only from Minziro Forest, NW
Tanzania
.
Biology. The habitat is a seasonally flooded swamp forest typical of the Kagera region of northwest
Tanzania
. The flora of this forest represents an eastern extension of the “Guineo-Congolian regional centre of endemism” into East Africa (
Bjørnstad 1991
).
Etymology. The species is named after the collector of the
holotype
, Anders Bjørnstad.