Saccharodite modesta Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 132

Saccharodite modesta Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 1.9 times longer than wide, length: male 3.0– 4.4 mm (mean = 3.6, n = 17), female 3.6–4.5 mm (mean = 4.0, n = 14). Colour white to stramineous; abdomen faintly tinted with orange. Some specimens (but not holotype) with faint red marks in front of eyes and at sides of pronotum, next to hind margin. Forewings lightly powdered; very faintly infuscated from apex of Cu to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; veins colourless to stramineous; a short section of costal margin adjoining last subcostal sector orange-red (in some specimens faint); base of Sc+R with 3 dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; subantennal processes not connected to margins of facial carinae; rostrum surpassing post trochanter. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly before middle of wing; basal median cell slightly wider than basal cell between Sc+R and M; a triangle at base of Ms1 (in some specimens missing). Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process elongated. Apical part of aedeagus short, its left side extending into a membranous, terminal lobe.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (modestus, -a, -um = moderate).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.6 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) NE NEW GUINEA: / Wau , Hospital Ck. / 1130 m, 3.IV.1965 2) J. Sedlacek / Malaise Trap / BISHOP MUS. ( BPBM) . Paratypes. INDO- NESIA: PAPUA: Waris, S. of Hollandia, 450–500 m, 27–30.VII.1959, 16–23.VIII.1959 , 2 ♀ (fw. 3.6, 3.7) , T. C. Maa; 1 ♂ (fw. 3.8), light trap, J.L. Gressitt; Wisselmeren, 1530 m, Urapura, Kamo Val. , 10.VIII.1955 , 1 ♀, Gressitt (all BPBM); Star Range, Sibil , Tenma Sigin , and Bivak 39A, 1260, 1800, 1500 m, 10,13,22 . V., 6,8,12. VI., 4. VII.1959 , 3 ♂ (fw. 2x3.1, 3.5) 5 ♀ (fw. 3.6, 4.0, 4.3, 4.5), Neth. New Guinea Exp. ( RMNH); PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NE: W. Highlands, Korn Farm , 1560 m, 19.X.1958 , 2 ♂ (fw. 3.3, 3.9), 2 ♀ (fw. 3.9, 4.0), Gressitt; Goiburung, E. of Korn Farm , 1560–1650 m, 16.X.1958 , 1 ♂ (fw. 3.4), Alpinia , Gressitt ; Mt. Hagen area , 1650 m, 28. VI.1957, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.8), D. Elmo Hardy; Aiyura , 1550, 1600 m, 18.V.1966, 9.VI.1966 , 3 ♂ (fw. 2x3.3, 3.9), Malaise trap, Gressitt; Mt. Flora , 6°45'S 146° E, 1900 m, 12. VI.1966, 1 ♀, Gressitt; Mt. Otto , 2200 m, 24. VI.1955, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.4) 1 ♀ (fw. 4.5), Gressitt; Wau , Morobe Distr., 1200 m, 17.VI.1961, 15–24.XI.1961 , 2 ♂ (fw. 3.7, 3.8), J. Sedlacek, Gressitt; Swart Val. , Karubaka , 1400 m, 21.XI.1958 , 1 ♀ (fw. 3.7), Gressitt ; Sepik-Waghi div., N. of Banz , 1900 m, 11. VII.1955, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.6), Gressitt ; Karap, N. of Jimmi Waghi div., 1550 m, 20. VII.1955, 1 ♀ (fw. 4.1), light trap, Gressitt ; nr. Busu Riv. , NE of Lae , Sangeman Vill. , 25 m, 30.VIII.1957 , 1 ♂ (fw. 3.0), light trap, Elmo Hardy ; PAPUA NEW GUINEA: S. Highlands, Dimifa , SE of Mt. Giluwe, 2200 m, 10.X.1958 , SE: Betege , 20 km NW of Koroba , 1600 m, 21.IX.1963 , 1 ♀ (fw. 4.2), light trap , R. Straatman ; PAPUA: S. Highlands, Mendi, 1660 m, 13.X.1958 , 1 ♀ (fw. 4.3), Gressitt; N. of Mendi , 1800 m, 8.X.1958 , 1 ♂ (fw. 4.2), Gressitt (all BPBM) .

Distribution. New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite modesta resembles closely Sa. nervosa sp. nov., also from New Guinea. However, it has lighter forewing infuscation and veins, as well as an orange-red section on the costa. It can be distinguished from Sa. basipunctulata (Melichar) , which also occurs in New Guinea, by its larger size, the last subcostal sector in the forewings being uncoloured, and by the triangle at the base of Ms1.