Nymphicula hampsoni, Agassiz, David, 2014

Agassiz, David, 2014, A preliminary study of the genus Nymphicula Snellen from Australia, New Guinea and the south Pacific (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Acentropinae), Zootaxa 3774 (5), pp. 401-429 : 405

Nymphicula hampsoni sp. n.

Description of imago (fig. 6). Wingspan 15–16 mm. Head with ochreous and brown scales; labial palpus with terminal segment pale ochreous, longer than second; second segment clothed with fuscous scales. Antenna brownish, collar ochreous. Thorax whitish ochreous and brown.

Forewing: base dark brown extended along costa to first strigula; antemedian band broad, white, from dorsum to subcostal vein; medial zone white with brown scaling around central vein and from dorsum to subdorsal vein, these divide it into two rounded white trapezoidal patches; a broad area of brown before first strigula and beneath it two parallel diffuse brown lines before yellow-orange terminal area; first strigula wedge-shaped, white, second strigula an narrow wedge, slightly curved and inwardly edged brown, the lower half filled with leaden grey; costa between strigulae brownish; tornal spot shining lead-coloured, crescent shaped just touching brown edge of medial zone and not quite reaching termen; terminal cilia brown, whitish above tornus where there is a slight indentation of the termen.

Hindwing extreme base brown; a broad white subbasal band; antemedian band broad, brown containing obscure round ochreous spot; medial zone white, densely scaled dark brown forming a strong edge parallel to a strong submarginal line; an orange tornal streak and a small leaden spot before eye-spots; five black eye-spots connected by metallic leaden spots; orange-yellow between eye-spots and margin.

Abdomen pale ochreous; legs pale ochreous, brown above femur and tibia of fore- and mid-legs and on joints.

Tympanal organs (fig. 32) Venulae secundae almost parallel, slightly curved outwards.

Male genitalia unknown.

Female genitalia (fig. 77) Ostium broad with strong collar. Ductus bursae swollen, slightly restricted before corpus bursae. Corpus bursae with a pair of parallel spinose patches forming the signa which extend for the whole length of the corpus bursae.

Material examined. Holotype ♀, originally described as a paratype of queenslandica Hampson , "Kuranda Apr.1905, F.P.Dodd" in BMNH. Two paratypes, ♀: Cooktown NQ Apr. 1922, Mareeba| Qld.| 31 Jan. 1963 | P. Macnicol. slide No. 13083 ( ANIC).

Diagnosis. The markings of the forewing, with the partial white median fascia being separated by a dark fuscous line, are characteristic of this species alone.

Derivation. named in honour of Sir George Hampson who contributed greatly to our understanding of the Pyraloidea

Distribution. Known only from north Queensland, Australia (Cooktown, Mareeba and Kuranda).