Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea;
Author
Koo, Jun-Mo
Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644 Korea.
Author
Minet, Joël
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-02
4845
2
151
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journal article
8554
10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1
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Torodora ankasokella
(Viette, 1968)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs. 5
A–E)
Lecithocera ankasokella
Viette, 1968: 89
. TL: Lakato.
Type
.
1♂
(
holotype
),
East
Madagascar
, road to
Lakato
, at km 15,
Ankasoka
, alt.
1,100 m
,
2–10 i 1959
,
P. Viette
leg.;
Lecithocera ankasokella
n. sp.
,
Holotype
,
P. Viette
; genitalia: prep.
J. Minet
no. 1662.
Adult
(
Figs. 5A, B
). Wingspan,
22.5 mm
. This species is superficially similar to
Torodora hiarakella
(
Viette, 1988
)
, especially in the forewing colour pattern with orange-white costal band along margin, however, it can be distinguished from the latter by having two small, triangular costal patches beyond half. Hind wing has M
2
present, M
3
and CuA
1
stalked. Abdominal segments (
Fig. 5E
) have strong spines triangularly distributed on segment II–VII dorsally, but rare in the segment I and not in
VIII
.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 5C, D
): Uncus narrowly elongated, with an expansion medially. Valva broad basally; costa strongly concaved; ventral margin emarginated before cucullus; cucullus narrow basally, then slightly broadened distally with rounded outer margin. Juxta large, without caudal lobes. Aedeagus slender, as long as valva; cornuti consist of numerous spinules in a long sac.
Remarks.
The species was originally described, based on a single specimen, but the genitalia of the
holotype
was not dissected by Viette (1968) and the third author dissected and illustrated for the first time.
Distribution.
Madagascar
(East) (Viette, 1968).