Goniophysetis cuthberti, Agassiz, 2022

Agassiz, David, 2022, The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 5174 (2), pp. 101-156 : 111

Goniophysetis cuthberti sp. n.

Imago (fig. 11): Wingspan 17–18 mm. Head white, maxillary palpus of male over half diameter of eye, whitish with brown lateral spots, labial palpus 1.5 × diameter of eye, whitish with fuscous scales, in the female the maxillary palpus is half eye diameter and labial palpus equal to eye diameter, pale ochreous. Thorax and tegulae whitish. Forewing white, dark brown antemedian linear fascia preceded by fuscous scales, white lunule in disc surrounded by pale fuscous suffusion; second irregular linear fascia to tornus, followed by fuscous suffusion, termen straight from apex, angled inwards halfway, with a series of dark fuscous dashes. Hindwing base white, antemedian and postmedian fascias dark brown, curved lines and dorsally with much dark fuscous suffusion, especially on the outside, postmedian fascia’s scales reddish brown; termen marked with a sequence of blackish dots.

Male genitalia: not known.

Female genitalia: not examined.

Diagnosis: Distinguished by the predomiantly whitish wings and the strongly marked fascias near the dorsum of the hindwing.

Life history: not known.

Derivation: named after my father Dr Cuthbert D.S. Agassiz who, at the time the species was taken, was involved in the first World War.

Distribution: Madagascar.

Type material: Holotype ♀ [ Madagascar] Diego Suarez 16.vii.1917 (G. Melou) NHMUK014046028 . Paratype ♀ same locality 12–15.ix.1917 NHMUK014046029 ( NHMUK) .