Saccharodite crispa Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 166-167

Saccharodite crispa Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length in male 3.3–3.8 mm (mean = 3.6, n = 6), in female about 3.7 mm. Colour stramineous with the following parts bright orange: a stripe above eyes, margins of facial carinae in front of eyes, frons, scutellum, some marks on thoracic pleura and sternites, abdominal tergites, and abdominal pleura; mesonotum light brown; legs with orange-red marks (holotype) or stramineous to faintly yellow. Forewings glassy; very faintly infuscated from clavus tip to base of Ms1, veins in this area bright orange; remaining veins stramineous, except for the brownish anterior apical crossveins; three spots on base of Sc+R; junction of Sc+R and first subcostal sector reddish brown. Hindwing veins with red sections at their bases. In profile junction of vertex and face slightly angulated; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae by a low ridge. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly before middle of wing; basal median cell broad, more than twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender, its base slightly swollen; distal dorsal process long. Apical portion of aedeagus long and strongly curved, with a longitudinal, dorsal groove.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (crispus, -a, -um = curly).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.8 mm), NEW CALEDONIA; labels 1) NEW CALEDONIA:/ Ponebo , 20–100m / 4.II.1964 2) R. Straatman/ Light Trap / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratypes. NEW CALEDONIA: same data as holotype, 15,17. I.1964, 3.II.1964, 6 ♂ (fw. 3.3, 3.5, 3x 3.7) 1 ♀ (fw. 3.7); Paita-Mou , 300m, 8. III .1972, 1 ♀, Gressitt (all BPBM) .

Distribution. New Caledonia.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite crispa resembles Sa. doddi sp. nov. from Australia and Sa. joycei sp. nov. from Fiji. However, it has stronger orange coloration and a strongly curved apical portion of the male aedeagus.