Tineovertex hamoides, Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2011

Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2011, A revision of the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 2991, pp. 1-12 : 7

Tineovertex hamoides , sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 L, 3F)

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: uncus digitate; saccus slender, about 1.8 × length of valva; and phallus curved dorsally with uncinate apex.

Description. Forewing length 6.5–7.5 mm, antenna length 7.0–8.0 mm in male ( Fig. 1 L).

Male. Head. Vertex and frons dark black. Thorax. Dorsum and tegula black with posterior portions yellowish white. Forewing gold creamy white, about 3.1–3.2 × as long as wide including fringe (about 3.4–3.5 × as long as wide excluding fringe); apex and termen brownish gold with seven distinct white spots; costa with a broad irregular black streak from base to basal 7/10, dilated in middle reaching almost halfway across wing; subapex with a distict white costal strigulae; a narrow and nearly straight black streak from dorsum basal 3/20 to apex, separated creamywhite and gold-yellow areas. Hindwing brownish gray, 1.9–2.0 × as long as wide including fringe (3.2–3.3 × as long as wide excluding fringe). Abdomen. Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 F) with uncus digitate, about 0.4 × length of valva. Saccus slender throughout, about 1.8 × length of valva. Valva relatively narrow, somewhat C-shaped, gradually curved dorsally. Phallus curved dorsally at middle with uncinate apex, about 2.1 × length of valva, vesica with cornuti consisting of a small mass of minute spines.

Female. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype, male, MALAYSIA: Cameron Highlands, 19.VIII.1986, leg. G.S. Robinson, BM. 1986-299, with the genitalia slide no. 32138 in BMNH. Paratype, 1 male, MALAYSIA: Pahang, 11–29.XI.1981, leg. K.R. Tuck, BM. 1981-549, with genitalia slide no. 32140 in BMNH. All types deposited in BMNH.

Bionomics. Seasonal occurrence: August to November, with host unknown.

Distribution. Malaysia.

Etymology of specific epithet. From the Latin hamoides (=like a hook), referring to the uncinate tube at the apex of the phallus.

Remarks. The new species is known to occur only in Malaysia.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Adults and labels of Tineovertex spp. A – B. “ Tinea melanochrysa Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Lectotype; C. Tineovertex melanochrysa (Meyrick, 1911), Female; D. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, Male, Holotype (also see Huang et al., 2007: Fig. 2 A); E. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, Female, Paratype (also see Huang et al., 2007: Fig. 2 A); F – G. “ Tinea canicoma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Lectotype;. H. Tineovertex thailandia sp. nov., Female, Holotype; I – J. “ Tinea sartoria Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Holotype; K. Tineovertex sartoria (Meyrick, 1911), Female; L. Tineovertex hamoides, sp. nov., Male, Holotype.

FIGURE 3. Genitalia of Tineovertex spp. A. “ Tinea melanochrysa Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; B. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); C. “ Tinea canicoma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; D. Tineovertex thailandia, sp. nov., Female, Holotype; E. “ Tinea sartoria Meyrick, 1911 ”, (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female); F. Tineovertex hamoides, sp. nov., Male, Holotype; G. “ Tinea melliflua Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; H. Tineovertex fibriformis, sp. nov., (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); I. Tineovertex expansa, sp. nov., (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); J. “ Tinea antidroma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; K. Tineovertex elongata, sp. nov., Male, Holotype.