Re-examination of the type specimens of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera), deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Belgium, with descriptions of ten new species from DR Congo belonging to Thubdora Park and Torodora Meyrick
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Author
Prins, Willy De
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-28
4571
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451
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journal article
27809
10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.1
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1175-5326
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Lecithocera dicentropa
Meyrick, 1938
(
Figs. 14
A–F)
Lecithocera dicentropa
Meyrick, 1938
.
Institut des Parcs Nationaux du
Congo belge
14: 14.
Material examined
.
1♂
(
holotype
),
Musée
du
Congo
,
Rutshuru
(1285),
16–26.xii.1933
,
G.F. de Witte
, Parc Nat. Albert;
Congo belge
:
Kivu
,
Rutshuru
,
1285 m
,
16–26.xii.1933
,
G.F. de Witte
; R.
DÉT
.
4080; P. 158;
E. Meyrick
, det. 1937,
Lecithocera dicentropa
Meyr.
, gen. slide no. CIS-7139/Park, in
RMCA
.
Diagnosis.
Male (
Fig. 10A
). The species has a somewhat similar wing pattern as the preceding species,
L. chloroscia
, but the male genitalia are distinctly separable.
Redescription
. Wingspan
15 mm
. Abdominal segment between VII and VIII with modified sclerites (
Fig. 14F
).
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 14D, E
). Basal lobes of uncus slender, concave in V-shape on caudal margin. Gnathos more or less short, bent subapically. Costal bar banded, slightly angled medially. Valva broad basally; cucullus narrowed toward apex, with more or less acute apex, densely haired on surface; sacculus banded. Juxta shield- shaped, deeply concave on caudal margin. Aedeagus strongly bent at basal 1/3; cornuti consisting of a long barshaped lobe, rounded chain with conic spines medially, and a curved row with short spines near apex.
Remarks.
The species was described based on two males from
North Kivu
,
DR Congo
, and it is confirmed to be a
Lecithocera
species. In the original description, the date was erroneously written as “
27.xii.1933
–
6.i.1934
”.
Distribution.
DR Congo
(
Nord-Kivu
).