Tolpia odor, Fibiger, 2007

Fibiger, Michael, 2007, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae, Zootaxa 1567 (1), pp. 1-116 : 11-12

Tolpia odor Fibiger, new species

( Plate 1 ; figs 1, 2; male genit. plate 12, figure 1, female genit. plate 21, figure 3)

Material examined.

Holotype: male, Thailand N, 50 km NW Mae Hong Son, by Shan , 800 m, 14.vii.2003, leg. M. Fibiger. Coll. MF, to be deposited in ZMUC.

Paratypes: 5 males, 1 female: 3 males, same data as for holotype ; 2 males, 1 female, Thailand N, 30 km N Mae Hong Son, Karen village , 1100 m, 16.vii.2003, leg. M. Fibiger. Colls. BMNH, CNC, MF, ZMUC .

Diagnosis.

Wingspan: 14–16 mm.

Transverse lines: brown, suffused with black scales; antemedial and postmedial lines well marked, with a black spot on costa; subterminal line indistinct.

Reniform: indistinct, almost invisible.

Hindwing: brown.

Underside: unicolorous brown.

Abdomen: brown with black crest dorsally on first segment; male with long black and brown anal tufts.

Male genitalia.

Saccus: short, rounded.

Vinculum: short.

Tegumen: extremely long.

Tergite and sternite: indistinct.

Sacculus: with heavily sclerotised cone-like process dorsally on right side.

Ampulla: asymmetrical, club-like, apically smoothly rounded; on left side a short mushroom-like process. Pollex : short, rounded, with long hair-like setae.

Digitus: on right side, long, narrow, bent, pointed apically; short, stout, tapered, and thorn-like on left side. Juxta: higher than wide.

Anellus: fused with juxta, dorsally membranous on left side, forming almost a full circle around phallus. Fultura superior: membranous.

Phallus: broadest by ductus ejaculatorius, coiling clock-wise, S-shaped, slight tapering towards apex; coecum long and narrow.

Female genitalia.

Ovipositor: quadrangular.

Anterior apophyses: length equal to that of posterior apophyses.

8 th abdominal segment: very narrow, ventrally fused with 7 th segment.

7 th abdominal segment: heavily sclerotised, anteriorly with an irregular, triangular extension.

Antrum: short, tapered, heavily sclerotised.

Ductus bursae: membranous, long, coiling by antrum; ostium and ductus bursae 2 X as long as corpus bursae. Appendix bursae: arising postteriorly from ductus bursae immediately after antrum.

Corpus bursae: globular.

Differential diagnosis.

The female genitalia resemble those of T. fyani but differ in the shape of ostium and the irregular, triangular extension of the 7 th segment.

Figures

PLATE 1. Figures 1–8. Tolpia species, adults. 1, 2, T. odor, male holotype, Thailand N, Mae Hong Son, and male paratype, with same data; 3, T. fyani, female holotype, Vietnam, Fyan; 4, 5, T. unguis, male holotype, Thailand mid W, Kanchannaburi, and lateral view of same; 6, T. sikkimi, male holotype, India, Sikkim; 7, T. bhutani, male holotype, Bhutan; 8, T. indiai, male holotype, India S, Nilgiri Hills.