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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Moca marionella
(
Viette, 1954
)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs. 24
A–F)
FIGURE 24.
Moca marionella
(
Viette, 1954
)
,
comb. nov.
: A, holotype; B, labels; C, male genitalia, prep. P. Viette no. 2539; D, ditto, aedeagus; E, ditto, abdomen; F, postero-abdominal coremata. Scale bar for the genitalia and aedeagus: 0.5 mm.
Idiopteryx marionella
Viette, 1954: 36
, TL: Mahajeby forest, near Morafenobe.
Type.
1♂
(
holotype
),
West
Madagascar
, near
Morafenobe
,
Mahajeby forest
(Bongolava), from leaf of
Haronga
sp
.,
v.1952
, rearing no. 1060 (by.
R
. Paulian) [
12 v 1952
; emergence:
21 v 1952
]; genitalia: prep.
P. Viette
no. 2539
.
Adult
(
Figs. 24A, B
). Wingspan,
16 mm
. This species is superficially similar to
Moca descarpentriesella
,
especially in the colour pattern of both wings, but it can be distinguished by the smaller costal patches on the forewing (which also lacks a yellow apical band). Antenna strongly serrate. Labial palpus fairly large, upturned, with acute third segment; yellow inwards, largely brown outwards. Tibiae mostly dark brown outwards; midleg tarsus yellow, with brown apex; hindleg tarsus brown outwards. Body white ventrally. Dorsal surface of the abdomen blackish, laterally with yellow scales. Abdominal segments without spinose zones (
Fig. 24E
); sternum II with fairly long apodemes and anterolateral processes, its postero-median region largely desclerotized; segment
VIII
strongly modified, with wide unsclerotized areas; pregenital region with a pair of coremata (
Fig. 24F
), which resemble those of, e.g.,
Moca chrysocosma
(Diakonoff, [1968])
(
Huang
et al
. 2019
:
Fig. 10
).
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 24C, D
). Aedeagus slender, strongly bent at basal 1/3. Vinculum heavily sclerotized, with a fairly long saccus. Valva broad, provided, in its ventro-distal region, with a strong sclerotized point, which is directed proximad and may represent a modified praesacculus (free apical process of the sacculus). Juxta cup-shaped, deeply emarginate postero-dorsally. Gnathos absent. Uncus slender, slightly longer than tegumen.
Distribution
.
Madagascar
(West) (
Viette, 1954
).
Remarks.
This species is transferred to the genus
Moca
Walker
, which includes
Immidae
that retain a well developed (slender, sclerotized) uncus, while members of the genus
Imma
Walker
have lost the uncus in male genitalia (
Huang
et al
. 2019: 371
). As mentioned above,
Moca marionella
is hardly distinct from
Moca descarpentriesella
but revising the Malagasy
Immidae
is outside the scope of our study. Previously, only one species of
Immidae
was recorded from
Madagascar
(
Viette 1990: 64
), namely
Moca humbertella
(Viette, 1956)
, a taxon probably misplaced in
Moca
since its quite special male genitalia have a short, triangular uncus (
Viette, 1956b
:
Fig. 3
).