Saccharodite conducta Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 166

Saccharodite conducta Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.1 times longer than wide, length about 4.2 mm. Colour stramineous; mesonotum pale brown. Forewings powdered, colourless; veins light brown, interrupted by some colourless sections; claval veins all colourless; base of Sc+R with one dark spot. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; subantennal process well separated from margins of facial carinae; rostrum surpassing post-trochanter. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly before middle of wing; basal median cell narrow, about as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; Ms1 unbranched or Ms1b completely fused with Cu1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated, slightly pointed at end; proximal dorsal process short and slender, distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus short with a dorsal impression and two small terminal lobes.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin participle (conductus, -a, -um = brought together).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.2 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) New Guinea: NE/ W. Highlands: Korn / Farm , 1560 m / Oct. 19, 1959 2) J.L. Gressitt ( BPBM).

Distribution. New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite conducta is characterized by its large size, the forewings having Ms1 unbranched, the colourless body and wings, the brownish forewing veins, and the male aedeagus bearing two small terminal lobes.