Tactusa tranumi Fibiger, 2010

FIBIGER, MICHAEL, 2010, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae, Zootaxa 2583 (1), pp. 1-119 : 28-29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7C67FC6F-2D28-FFB4-FF28-FD4EECEA77E8

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Felipe

scientific name

Tactusa tranumi Fibiger
status

sp. nov.

Tactusa tranumi Fibiger View in CoL , new species

( Plate 3 View PLATE 3 , figure 5; female genit. plate 22, figure 8)

Material examined. Holotype: female, Vietnam N, Prov. Vinh Phu, Tam Dad , 930 m, 22–26.ix.1994, leg. M. Owada, genit. prep. 3338 M. Fibiger. Coll. NSMT.

Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 12 mm.

Forewing: With large black triangle; costa black throughout, only interrupted by white marks indicating crosslines (apo.).

Crosslines: present but indistinct, white, narrow; even terminal line white; fringes blackish (apo.).

Reniform stigma: present but weakly marked, white.

Hindwing: dark grey, with indistinct discal spot.

Underside: unicolorous grey.

Abdomen: grey, with black crest dorsally on first segment.

Male genitalia. Unknown.

Female genitalia. Ovipositor: quadrangular with rounded corners.

Posterior apophyses: twice as long as anterior apophyses and ovipositor (apo.).

Anterior apophyses: as long as 8 th abdominal segment.

Ostium: displaced to left.

Antrum: short, slightly tapered (apo.).

Ductus bursae: membranous, long, narrow, coiled, 2.25 times longer than width of corpus bursae.

Appendix bursae: arising anteriorly from ductus bursae, immediately posterior to antrum.

Corpus bursae: globular.

in whitish subterminal line, and in female genitalia, in short, tapered antrum and long, coiled ductus bursae.

Distribution. Known from a single specimen from N Vietnam.

NSMT

National Science Museum (Natural History)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Tactusa

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