Saccharodite mappa Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 162

Saccharodite mappa Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings elongated, 2.3 times longer than wide, length in male about 3.3 mm. Colour stramineous to greyish brown; a red mark above eyes; fore legs dark red, middle legs grey; abdomen light brown. Forewings mottled with light infuscation; a small dark spot at tip of Cu; veins stramineous to light brown; last subcostal sector and adjoining part of costa tinted with orange; base of Sc+R with four dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face strongly angulated; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae; rostrum reaching hind coxae. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly distad of middle of wing; basal median cell broad, about twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a very small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus narrow and elongated; tip with a small pointed process, directed ventrad.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin noun ( mappa = a map, a cloth) used in apposition.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.3 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SARAWAK; labels: 1) SARAWAK/ Gunong Mulu / Nat. Park. Mulu 2) Camp 4, Mulu / 178 m. i.1978 / 1. montane for. 3) J.D. Holloway / RGS Mulu - exped./ B.M. 1978-206 ( BMNH).

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite mappa shows similarities in structure to Sa. colorata sp. nov., also from Borneo. It can be separated from that species by the mottled forewings, and their colourless veins. It also resembles another species from Borneo, Sa. hollowayi sp. nov., from which it can be distinguished by the forewing infuscation, the red fore legs, and the small, pointed tip at the apex of the male aedeagus.