Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae)
Author
DAVID ADAMSKI
text
Zootaxa
2005
858
1
158
journal article
38788
10.5281/zenodo.170793
94a0cedb-15bb-4bfd-955e-77200a536045
1175-5334
170793
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Glyphidocera terrae
,
new species
(Figs. 39–41, 280, 297,
Map 7
) Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera terrae
is most similar to
G. c o r n i c u l a e
but differs from the latter by having a digitate process of valva that is not apically dilated, an apical furca of the valval costa that is longer and less acutely upturned, and a smaller apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.
Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales, segment II with pale brownishyellow scales along apical margin; inner surface pale brownish yellow or pale yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown or dark brown intermixed with few pale brownishyellow scales, flagellum pale brown; male 4th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; distal opening of concavity nearly closed by setiform scales on apex of 4th flagellomere; proboscis brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with palebrown scales to near apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 297): Length 7.1–8.0 mm (n = 13), brown intermixed with few palebrown scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with 2 large brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end; Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brownish gray.
Abdomen (Fig. 39): Male with 2 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga 2–3.
Male Genitalia (Figs. 40–41): Uncus elongate, broadly constricted near basal 1/4, nearly parallelsided apically, apex slightly rounded and setose; gnathos protuberant, wide basally, abruptly narrowed distal half and apically upturned, apex narrowly rounded; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa of valva gradually upturned from a shallow depression beyond basal digitate process to apical furca; furca angular and elongate, extending beyond base of uncus; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a nearly straight and elongate outer margin; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, with an elongate, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia (Fig. 280): Papillae anales elongate, slightly wider basally than apically; apophysis posterioris and apophysis anterioris about equal in length; eighth sternum narrower than eighth tergum; posterior margin of eighth sternum broadly rounded, anterior margin emarginate; posterior margin of eighth tergum broadly emarginate, anterior margin broadly rounded; antrum enlarged posteriorly from a narrow anterior part, posterior margin broadly rounded, posterolateral margin angular; constricted anterior part with a pair of short, spinelike processes inside cavity formed from outer wall; ductus bursae short; corpus bursae slightly expanded posteriorly, denticulate on anterior 2/3; inception of ductus seminalis enlarged; ductus seminalis coiled throughout length, decreasing in diameter from a widened base to apex; base of ductus seminalis with a small, singlecoiled, internal support; a slightly enlarged bulla opposite side of ductus seminalis; bulla with a twisted, platelike, internal support.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] Pitilla,
700 m
,
9 km
S S[an]ta Cecilia, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste],
COSTA RICA
, P. Rios & C. Moraga,
10 Set.–22 Oct. 1990
, LN330200, 380200”, INBio:
COSTA RICA
: CRI000, 579902” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 733” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(9 ɗ, 3 Ψ): 1 ɗ, “Est. Pitilla,
700 m
,
9 km
S Sta. Cecilia, Prov. Guan.,
COSTA RICA
, P. Rios & C. Moraga,
10 Set.–22 Oct. 1990
, LN330200, 380200”, “CRI000, 182146”, “Slide No. 731”; 1 ɗ, “
Set. 1991
, C. Moraga”, “CRI000, 460236”, “Slide No. 730”; 1 ɗ, “
6–19 Set. 1993
, P. Rios, # 2345”, “CRI001, 613362”, “Slide No. 741”; 1 ɗ, “P. Rios & C. Moraga,
Oct. 1990
”, “CRI000, 226245”, “Slide No. 742”; 1 ɗ, “
Dic. 1990
”, “CRI000,
281095
”; “Slide No. 735”; 1 ɗ, “C. Moraga,
May 1991
”, “CRI000, 649000”, “Slide No. 732”; 1 Ψ, “
2–9 Mar. 1992
”, “CRI000, 414815”, “Slide No. 737”; 1 Ψ, “C. Moraga & P. Rios,
Nov. 1990
”, “CRI000, 686179”, “Slide No. 739”; 1 Ψ, “C. Moraga,
Ago. 1991
”, “CRI000, 537964”, “Slide No. 743”; 1 ɗ, “
May 1995
, P. Rios, LN 329950, 380450, # 4815”, “CRI1002, 203461”, “Slide No. 740”; 1 Ψ, “Fca. San Gabriel,
2 km
SW Dos Ríos,
600 m
, Prov. Alaj.,
COSTA RICA
, I Curso Microlepidop.,
Jul. 1990
, L N318800, 383500”, “CRI000, 475389”, “Slide No. 514”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Carrillo,
700 m
, P. N. Braulio Carrillo, Prov. S. José,
Costa Rica
, I Curso Microlepidop.,
Jul. 1990
, LN236700, 541800”, CRI000, 219478”, “Slide No. 835”, (
7 in
INBio,
5 in
USNM).
Distribution (
Map 7
):
Glyphidocera terrae
is known from three collecting sites in northwestern
Costa Rica
along the Cordillera de Guanacaste, and one collecting site north of San José, along the Cordillera Central.
Etymology: The species epithet is derived from the Latin word for earth terra.