Urodeta pectena, Sruoga & Rocienė, 2018

Sruoga, Virginijus & Rocienė, Agnė, 2018, Three new species of Elachistidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from India, Zootaxa 4394 (4), pp. 575-585 : 582

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4BB22EDA-BC65-495E-BBEB-D086E4048DCC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509189

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D67A6A-9632-FFC5-FF3A-FB9E1C9FCEA8

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Plazi

scientific name

Urodeta pectena
status

sp. nov.

Urodeta pectena View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 16–19 View FIGURES 16–19 )

Type material. Holotype: ♀, India, Uttarakhand, Dehradun district, Rishikesh , 30°08’13.73”N 78°19’55.12”E, 450 m, 09.viii.2010, V. Sruoga leg. Gen. prep. VS469 (LEU). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Urodeta pectena is a small, pale-coloured species with indistinct wing markings. The female genitalia of the new species is mostly similar to U. talea Sruoga & De Prins, 2011 , known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, the forewing of U. pectena is without distinct dark streaks and spots, the colliculum is not dilated and the signum is composed of 9 long teeth, instead of 6–7 as present in U. talea .

Female ( Figs. 16–17 View FIGURES 16–19 ). Forewing length 2.5 mm; wingspan 5.5 mm (n=1). Head: Frons creamy white, only a few scales with light greyish brown tips; vertex and neck tuft creamy white, some scales with greyish brown tips; labial palpus short and straight, about 0.6 times as long as width of head, creamy white; scape broader than flagellum, covered with creamy white scales, without pecten; flagellum pale brown, without clear annulations. Thorax, tegula and forewing strongly mottled with scales basally creamy white and distally greyish brown; very small blackish brown spot at 2/3 of wing; fringe brownish grey. Hindwing and its fringe brownish grey.

Male. Unknown.

Female genitalia ( Figs. 18–19 View FIGURES 16–19 ). Papillae anales short, with scattered long setae; posteriorly with zone of very short setae mixed with longer ones. Apophyses posteriores vestigial, each visible only as a very short extension basolaterally. Tergum 8 very short, not sclerotized, apophyses anteriores weakly sclerotized except at apices, extending from central part of segment and spreading apart laterad. Ostium bursae situated in membrane between sterna 7 and 8. Antrum and colliculum not distinct. Ductus bursae wide, spirally coiled, with minute internal spines throughout its length. Corpus bursae with minute internal spines; signum formed from 9 stout teeth, which are slightly varying in size.

Biology. Unknown.

Flight period. The only known specimen was captured at the beginning of August.

Distribution. So far this species is known only from northern India ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ).

Etymology. The species name is derived from the Latin pecten (comb) in reference to the shape of the signum.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Elachistidae

Genus

Urodeta

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