Eoophyla stepheni, Published, 2012

Agassiz, David J. L., 2012, The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa, Zootaxa 3494, pp. 1-73 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3494.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E31EF0DC-825E-4D60-8AED-3127019CF8F0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5257600

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C387FB-FFE8-6550-FF43-4320FCD7C7FA

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Eoophyla stepheni
status

sp. nov.

Eoophyla stepheni sp. n.

Type locality: Zambia: Ikelenge .

Imago (Fig. 73): Wingspan 12–14mm. Head whitish; labial palpus upturned, slender, segment 3 longer than segment 2; maxillary palpus short; antenna dull yellow. Thorax pale yellow. Forewing base pale yellowish; an obscure oblique subbasal fascia; broad yellowish oblique antemedian fascia followed by a weak brownish line; trapezium-shaped strigula on costa withanother on dorsum white mixed pale brown; terminal area yellow; a white pre-apical strigula edged fuscous; silver-grey tornal spot; fuscous apical dot and small fuscous dots along termen; cilia pale fuscous. Hindwing base whitish; a diffuse yellow antemedian fascia, followed by two transverse fuscous lines; a subterminal line broad near base, then interrupted in middle; three black terminal eyespots, 1 and 3 divided by narrow yellow wedges, each separated from the next by yellow in the outer half, inwardly white; inner half of terminal cilia dark fuscous. Legs and abdomen pale yellow.

Male genitalia (Fig. 130): Uncus evenly tapered to a blunt point; gnathos 4/5 uncus, stout but abruptly tapered to a point bearing a double row of spines; valva more or less ovate, three or four specialised setae arising from terminal area, one of these is broad, the remainder narrow; juxta broad, with a row of very small spines down each side. Aedeagus cylindrical, apex clothed with spines, vesica with a single cornutus. Sternum 8 with a trapezoidal plate, from which a small projection points posteriorly.

Female genitalia (Fig. 181): Ostial chamber wide and cup-like, the anterior part scobinate with sclerotised ridges; ductus bursae twice length of ostial chamber with minute spiculation; corpus bursae of similar length to ductus, a pair of sclerotised ridges near to ductus, the remainder covered with small spicules.

Tympanal organs: Venulae widely separated, straight and parallel until bent outwards near the tympani.

Biology: Unknown.

Diagnosis: Distinguished from other members of the genus by the subterminal line of the hindwing, which appears as a conspicuous dark mark above eyespot 1, then it is absent, then reappears as a thin line above eyespot 3. Also the spiculation in the corpus bursae is diagnostic of this species.

Derivation: After Capt. Richard Stephen who found the holotype.

Distribution: Zambia, Congo, Cameroon.

Material examined: Holotype ♀, Zambia Ikilenge, Hillwood Farm, 11 13S, 24 19E, 6.vi.2001, R.D.Stephen ♀ DJLA slide 3038, with a red-circled holotype label ( TMP); GoogleMaps 6 paratypes marked with yellow-circled paratype labels: 1 ♂ Dept Agriculture, S. Rhodesia, Sept 1947. 1♀ collector E.C.G.Pinhey DJLA slide 3039 ( TMP); 1♂, soilzoological Exp., Congo- Brazzaville, Mindamba, Méya 2♀ 3.xi.1963 by lamplight, leg. Endrõdy-Younga ( TMMA). 1♂ 4771136| 14.x.2010 | Cameroon | Bolbitis (BMNH) . GoogleMaps

TMP

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Eoophyla

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