Diagnostics and updated checklist of Oriental Pseudopostega (Opostegidae) including the matrona species group with a new, extralimital species discovered in the Mediterranean
Author
Stonis, Jonas R.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Author
Remeikis, Andrius
0000-0002-9310-1112
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania. & remeikis. andrew @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9310 - 1112
remeikis.andrew@gmail.com
Author
Solis, M. Alma
0000-0001-6379-1004
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 20013 - 7012, USA. & alma. solis @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6379 - 1004
alma.solis@usda.gov
Author
Karsholt, Ole
0000-0002-6969-2549
Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 KØbenhavn Ø, Denmark. & okarsholt @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6969 - 2549
okarsholt@snm.ku.dk
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-22
4933
3
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journal article
7980
10.11646/zootaxa.4933.3.3
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The
indonesica
group
Externally, species are characterized by a wide, dark brown or ochre fascia of the forewing; snow white frontal tuft. In the male genitalia, the uncus is comprised of two large, distally rounded lateral lobes; the gnathos is a small plate with large lateral arms and a large, distally rounded caudal process; the valva has a large, distinctive pedicel and triangular cucullar lobes; and the vinculum is bilobed anteriorly, with a distinctive, strongly thickened, rod-like juxta (
Fig. 1
). In the female genitalia, the apophyses are unique in comparison with other
Pseudopostega
because they are very long; the anal papillae with two deeply divided lobes (
Fig. 1
); and the signum is absent.
From other groups of Oriental
Pseudopostega
, the
indonesica
group is easily distinguished by the deeply bilobed vinculum, distinctive pedicel of the valva in the male genitalia, and the very long apophyses and deeply divided lobes of the anal papillae in the female genitalia.
Distribution. Currently the group is comprised of two species distributed in
Indonesia
,
India
, and
Sri Lanka
(
Davis 1989
), and possibly with wider distribution (D. R. Davis
pers. comm
.) (
Fig. 1
).
Remarks. Previously,
P. euryntis
was left unplaced in a species group (
Puplesis & Robinson 1999
). However, upon the study of the female
holotype
of
P. euryntis
we found it possesses all the diagnostic characters of the
indonesica
group: very long apophyses and deeply divided lobes of anal papillae. Therefore, we newly attribute
P. euryntis
to the
indonesica
group (see Checklist).