Revision of African Neaspasia Diakonoff, 1989 and the related Conaspasia, n. gen. (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)
Author
Aarvik, Leif
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1172 Blindern, NO- 0318 Oslo, Norway.
leif.aarvik@nhm.uio.no
Author
Agassiz, David J. L.
Dept. of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
D.Agassiz@nhm.ac.uk
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-01-14
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3754.2.2
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Conaspasia congolana
Aarvik
,
new species
(
Figs. 13
,
28
)
Type
material.
Holotype
,
♂
,
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
:
1♂
Bas-Congo
,
Nat. Res. Luki- Mayumbe
,
05°37’S
13°05’E
,
320 m
,
16.v.2007
,
J. & W. De Prins
, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2013.011 (
RMCA
);
Paratype
,
1♂
, same data as holotype (
RMCA
).
Description.
Male (
Fig. 13
). Head: Beige, neck tufts dark greyish brown with white-tipped scales. Antenna dark grayish brown, tip and scape light brown. Labial palpus ca. 2.0 times diameter of eye, beige. Thorax: Brownish black, scales white-tipped. Fore- and mid-legs grey externally, beige internally, with light rings; hind leg light beige, tibia pencil light yellow. Wingspan 13.0–14.0 mm. Forewing upperside basal third brownish black, distal two thirds cream; median fascia represented by ochreous suffusion on costa, on dorsum and in middle; ochreous suffusion also in tornal area; round patch of brown suffusion present as in subapical area; costal strigulae interspaced with brownish black; cilia grey, becoming lighter towards tornus. Hindwing grey¸ cilia light grey, becoming lighter towards anal corner; rhopaloid scales present at anal corner. Abdomen: Grey, anal tuft ochreous. Genitalia (
Fig. 28
) with uncus small, subtriangular, rounded apically, setose; socii subrectangular, apical edge with strong spines; valva slender, slightly S-shaped, cucullus spiny in ventral third, an oblique row of long spines from middle of ventral edge to distal end of basal excavation on dorsum. Phallus slender, lightly curved at basal third. Female. Unknown.
Diagnosis.
Externally distinguished from other species of
Conaspasia
n. gen.
by its smaller size. From species of
Neaspasia
it differs by having shorter hindwing. The hindwing is probably unmodified in the female.
Distribution.
This species is known only from the
Democratic Republic of Congo
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the country where the
type
specimens were collected.