Phyllonorycter umukarus, De Prins, 2012

Prins, Jurate De & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2012, Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), Zootaxa 3594 (1), pp. 1-283 : 156

The umukarus group

The umukarus species group includes one species, P. umukarus . is characterized by the broad, black band following the apical edge of first fascia. The lack of male genitalia and the divergent female genitalia inhibit the confident placement of P. umukarus De Prins , n. sp. in either of the other proposed informal species groups. The female genitalia are characterized by an appressed, arc-shaped sterigma with broad sclerotized posterior margin, very narrow strongly sclerotized ductus bursae, pear-shaped corpus bursae with a large, diamond-shaped, signum area located at median part of corpus bursae. Larvae of P. umukarus mine leaves of Tiliaceae .