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
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Conaspasia albonigra
(
Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2012
)
,
comb. n.
(
Figs. 11, 12
,
27
,
36
)
Niphadophylax albonigra
Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2012
: 78
, figs. 20, 114.
Material examined.
TANZANIA
: 3♂♂, 1♀ East Usambara Mts. Amani,
900 m
,
1.ix.1981
, M. Stoltze & N. Scharff, genitalia slide L. Aarvik ♂ 97010 and L. Aarvik ♀ 97011 (
ZMUC
);
2♂♂ Pwani Reg., Rufiji Distr.: Namakutwa Forest Res.,
27.viii.1992
, Frontier, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2013.023 (
ZMUC
);
1♂
Lindi Reg. & Distr.: Litipo Forest,
vii–ix.1993
, Frontier, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2013.018 (
ZMUC
).
UGANDA
:
1♂
Rakai Distr.: Sango Bay,
Malamigambo Forest,
1140 m
, 0 0o 55,796’S 31o 37,287’E,
1–2.xi.2007
, L. Aarvik & M. Fibiger, genitalia slide
NHMO
2242 (
NHMO
);
1♀ Mukono Distr.: Mabira Forest,
1320 m
, 0
0o
22,942’N
33o 01,040’E
,
18.xi.2007
, L. Aarvik & M. Fibiger, genitalia slide
NHMO
2243 (
NHMO
).
FIGURES 33–35.
Female genitalia of
Neaspasia
. 33.
N. coronana
n. sp.
(slide NHMO 2286). 34.
N. malamigambo
n. sp.
(slide NHMO 2284). 35.
N. brevibasana
(Walsingham)
(slide L. Aarvik 2013.004). Scale 1 mm.
Diagnosis.
Wingspan 15.0–17.0 mm. Externally similar to
Neaspasia orthacta
; females of the two species are nearly inseparable externally. Males of
C. albonigra
differ by the shorter hindwing. The male genitalia of
Conaspasia albonigra
(
Fig. 27
) are characterised by the relatively short and broad valva with a nearly straight ventral edge. The female genitalia (
Fig. 36
) differing from those of
C. sophrona
by having the ductus seminalis arising from ductus bursae close to corpus bursae rather than at one third of the distance from corpus bursae to ostium.
Distribution.
This species is recorded from
Nigeria
(
Razowski & Wojtusiak 2012
),
Uganda
, and
Tanzania
.
Ecology.
The habitat is forest.