Hoploscopa tonsepi Leger & Nuss, 2020
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.907.36563 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0664603-AEC3-4D7B-8A99-146A6359A88C |
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Hoploscopa tonsepi Leger & Nuss |
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sp. nov. |
Hoploscopa tonsepi Leger & Nuss sp. nov. Figs 13 View Figures 4–18 , 55 View Figures 52–57 , 101 View Figures 99–102
Material examined.
Holotype: ♂, with labels: [exuvia in a capsule pinned under the specimen] "Sp. PYRA-106 | YP.4B.4041 | CATY 002 L 11 mm | YC 30471 Leaf M [circled] Y | Roll - Tie - Chew [circled] - Skel | 13 OCT 2012 [handwritten]"; "Papua New Guinea | Yawan village | 06°10'S, 146°5'E [1700m] | L[e]g[i]t J. Valeba, J. Auga | M. Dilu, F. Philip, R. Lilip | NG Binatang Res[earch]. C[en]t[e]r."; " USNM ENT: PNG | Madang Ecology Project | [barcode] | 00739227" [DNA voucher]; "DNA 2013"; "TL | 655 ♂". Deposited in USNM.
Paratypes: 2 ♂, 1 ♀. Papua New Guinea: 1 ♂ ( “YC30467”, DNA voucher MTD7874 & “00739207”, genitalia on slide TL661 ♂), same data as holotype except "CATY 001, L = 15 mm"; 1 ♂ ( “YC30472”, DNA voucher “00739208”), same data as holotype except "CATY 001, L = 15 mm", leg. B. Gewa, J. Kua, S. Sau, A. Kinibel; 1 ♀ ( “YC30473”, DNA voucher “00739234” & MTD7873, genitalia on slide TL658 ♀), same data as holotype except "L = 10 mm" “Roll”, leg. B. Gewa, J. Kua, S. Sau, A. Kinibel (USNM).
Diagnosis.
Hoploscopa tonsepi sp. nov. displays a triangular reddish brown median discoidal stigma with white edges, extending toward dorsum into narrow white cubital streak. In male genitalia, the two-armed uncus with two small tips on its middle is unique to this species. In female genitalia, the absence of posterior apophyses, the short ductus bursae and the small corpus bursae without thorn are atypical for the genus and observed only in this species.
Similar species.
No similar species known.
Description.
Head. Antennae dorsally striped with brown and bronze scales. Proboscis pale yellow, brown at base. Maxillary palpi dark brown, base and inner side pale yellow to light brown. Labial palpi dark brown, ventro-basally pale yellow.
Thorax (Fig. 13 View Figures 4–18 ). Collar pale yellow. Forewing length: 9-10 mm (♂ & ♀); forewing ground colour brown, broadly suffused with reddish brown; basal oblique thin white streak; cubital reddish brown fascia running from basal to postmedian area; basal and distal discoidal patches of a darker brown, basally and distally thinly edged with white; median discoidal stigma reddish brown, with V-shaped white edge, together with narrow white cubital streak forming a Y; postmedian patch roughly triangular, reddish brown, crossed with brown lines, abutted with pale yellow blotch at costa; postmedian line broad, marked on costal half; postmedian suffusion faintly marked, pale yellow; subterminal line pale yellow, diffuse, running more or less straight from dorsum distal 1/4 to apex; subterminal field marked with reddish brown; fringes brown, with pale yellow dots. Hindwing pale brown, darker at apex. Forelegs dark brown; tibia dark brown, distally pale yellow; tarsi pale yellow. Midlegs with femur dark brown; tibia pale yellow, speckled with brown, distally brown; tarsi pale yellow. Hindlegs brown; tibia and tarsi segments distally pale yellow.
Abdomen. Male sternum A8 posterior margin bilobed.
Male genitalia (N = 2) (Fig. 55 View Figures 52–57 ). Uncus broad, entirely sclerotised, on distal half extending into two arms with rounded tip, with small dent on inner side, margin between arms with two small tips on its middle. Gnathos projection plump, ca. 2/3 of uncus length. Valva slender, ventral margin nearly straight, dorsal margin slightly convex, apex pointed. Juxta with base roughly rounded, medially narrowed, apex blunt, slightly incurved. Saccus slightly quadrangular. Coecum penis reduced to a short protrusion.
Female genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 101 View Figures 99–102 ). Papillae anales thick, dorsally and ventrally not connected. Posterior apophyses absent. Anterior apophyses without bump at posterior 1/3. Antrum sclerotisation short. Ductus bursae short, slender, straight. Corpus bursae very small, ovoid, covered with tiny papillae. Corpus sclerotisation and thorn absent.
Distribution.
Known from the Yawan village (1,700 m) in the Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea).
Biology.
The moths were reared from Diplazium esculentum (Retzius in Retzius & König, 1791) Swartz, 1803 ( Athyriaceae ) (S. Miller, C. Redmond, & T. Whitfield, pers. comm.).
Etymology.
Named after Tonsep, the village leader of Yawan in Papua New Guinea, who locally conducted the project on which the larvae were collected and reared to adults.
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