Plateoplia, WARREN, 1909

Scoble, Malcolm J. & Krüger, Martin, 2002, A review of the genera of Macariini with a revised classification of the tribe (Geometridae: Ennominae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (3), pp. 257-315 : 269

PLATEOPLIA WARREN

(Figs 3, 68–71)

Plateoplia Warren, 1909 . Type species: Tephrinopsis ochriciliata Warren, 1901 , a junior synonym of Tephrina acrobelia Wallengren, 1875 . Angola: Cubal River.

Description

Head. Chaetosemata extended. Antenna fasciculate, not bipectinate.

Wings (Fig. 3). Rounded, ochreous with terminal, postmedial, and submedial lines.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 68 ). Uncus triangular, large, with spine-like setae. Gnathos prominent with large, triangular medial element. Valva: almost completely divided; costa with spine-like setae; sacculus with digitate process. Saccus long, pointed.

Pregenital abdomen of male ( Fig. 69 ). Sternum A8 weakly modified along margin.

Female genitalia ( Figs 70, 71 ). Ostium bursae: sterigma complex. Corpus bursae small, elongated, not round, without spines, and with a small signum with a single small tooth.

Diagnosis. The shape of the valva is distinctive. The corpus bursae has a signum and lacks spines, unlike the densely spinose condition in Platypepla and in many species of Milocera .

Distribution. Southern and East Africa.

Foodplants. Ximenia spp. (Olacaceae) .

Comments. Plateoplia belongs to the Platypepla - group of genera.

Number of species. The genus is monotypic.

Figures

Figures 68–71. Plateoplia acrobelia: 68, ♂ genitalia; 69, sternum A8 of ♂; 70, ♀ genitalia, ostium region; 71, ♀ genitalia.