Hellinsia zakarae Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich

Ustjuzhanin, Petr, Kovtunovich, Vasily & Sáfián, Szabolcs, 2017, New data on the Pterophoridae fauna of Liberia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae), Zootaxa 4247 (2), pp. 194-200 : 195-197

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.2.13
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:34A11157-4405-4BB1-8DBA-E638D8AFDC86
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6017582
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC296D-6647-2C58-C0B2-FAEEFBDAFE9D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hellinsia zakarae Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich
status	sp. nov.

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Hellinsia zakarae Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich , sp. nov. ( Figs. 1–2 View FIGURES 1 – 2 )

Type material: Holotype, male, ( ZMJU 201611 View Materials ), LIBERIA, Nimba Mountains East Nimba Nature Reserve Camp Site on Cellcom Road , 7°31'44.66"N, 8°31'38.81"W, 14–25.xii.2015, Sz., Sáfián GoogleMaps ; Paratype, male, ( CUK 299 ), same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Description. External characters. Head with brown hair-like scales, thorax and tegula yellow. Labial palpus thin, straight, short, half eye diameter. Antenna yellowish grey, scape significantly thickened. Wingspan 18 mm. Fore wing yellow, interspersed with small brown scales. Dark brown elongated commalike spot in front of cleft. Three brown strokes on outer edge of second lobe. Fringe inside cleft unicolorous, pale yellow. Hind wing yellow, fringe between lobes yellow grey. Hind leg pale yellow, spurs distinctly brown.

Male genitalia. Valvae oval, asymmetric. Harpe on left valva as a large sclerotized trunk, widened at base and bent in distal part at an acute angle to form three split needles. Finger-like harpe on right valva basally. Uncus straight, tapered, apex slightly bent. Saccus concave, arched. Anellus arms of different length, right arm significantly wider and longer than left. Phallus thin, ¾ of valva length, slightly bent in middle, cornutus narrow, spinous, located in median part of phallus.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. The wing colour of the new species is similar to Hellinsia madecasseus (Bigot, 1964) , but it is distinguished by the specific structure of the harpe on the left valva; such structures have not been observed in other species.

Distribution. Liberia.

Flight period. December.

Etymology. The new species is named in honour of the Hungarian entomologist and bee specialist Erika Zakar, who assisted Sáfián's field work in the Putu Range in December 2009 and January 2010.