Orybina pseudoflaviplaga Singh &Ranjan, 2018

Singh, Navneet & Ranjan, Rahul, 2018, A new species of Orybina Snellen, 1895 from India (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae), Zootaxa 4392 (3), pp. 595-597 : 596

Orybina pseudoflaviplaga Singh &Ranjan , sp.nov ( Figs. 1–3 )

Type locality: Kutta , Karnataka, India.

Type material: Holotype: Male, India, Karnataka, Kutta , 05.xi.2010.

Paratype: 1 Male, same data as in the holotype.

Description. Forewing length 19mm. Adult pinkish; forewing with costal half suffused with shiny pale fuscous; a large yellow patch on costa, as present in most of Orybina species; antemedial line outwardly oblique, bifurcated near inner margin, one branch meet the latter straightly and another obsolescently extends on anal vein; postmedial line slightly oblique. Hindwing with inner area yellowish. Male genitalia with uncus large tongue like, concaved, lateral edges indented near middle; gnathos with lower arms long & robust with a strong bulge before apex of each arms, upper arms joint towards apex to form single process; tegumen& vinculum simple; saccus u shaped; valvae broadened towards apex; a small process near base of costa; aedeagus slightly s shaped; ductus ejaculatorious entering at centre.

Diagnosis. Orybina pseudoflaviplaga sp. nov. is distinct from all its congeners due to absence of medial/postmedial line of hindwing (in the hindwing of all the other Orybina species medial or postmedial line is present). Morphologically, new species is closely similar to O. flaviplaga (figs. 4 – 6) but is distinct due to following attributes: forewing with antemedial line obsolescing on anal vein; male genitalia with uncus more robust, lower arms of gnathos shorter than that of O. flaviplaga and subapically bulged, forming a shape of arrow head. Whereas in O. flaviplaga , line of anal vein is prominent, lower arms of gnathos are simple.

Etymology: Name of the species is attributed to its resemblance with O. flaviplaga .

Figures

FIGURES1–3.Orybina pseudoflaviplaga, Holotype,male.1, Adult; 2, Male genitalia;3,Aedeagus.