Hoploscopa marijoweissae Leger & Nuss, 2020
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Hoploscopa marijoweissae Leger & Nuss |
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sp. nov. |
Hoploscopa marijoweissae Leger & Nuss sp. nov. Figs 14 View Figures 4–18 , 57 View Figures 52–57 , 95 View Figures 95–98
Material examined.
Holotype: ♂, with labels: "M[oun]t. Goliath [Mount Yamin], | 5000 f[ee]t., Centr[al]. Dutch N[ew]. Guinea, | ca. 139° long, | February 1911, | (A. S. Meek)."; " NHMUK 010923397" [barcode appended]; "TL | 710 ♂". Deposited in NHMUK.
Paratypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀. Indonesia: 1 ♂ (NHMUK010923399), 1 ♀ (NHMUK010923351, genitalia on slide TL 709 ♀), same data as holotype (NHMUK).
Other specimens examined.
1 ♂. Papua New Guinea: 1 ♂, (DNA voucher MTD LEP3157 & genitalia on slide TL437 ♂) Morobe Province, Mount Kaindi, 2350 m, 11.xii.1976, leg. G. F. Hevel & R. E. Dietz (USNM).
Diagnosis.
This species is recognisable by the brown forewings broadly suffused with copper-coloured scales giving them a shiny appearance. Median cubital patch is white, discoidal stigma and postmedian patch are yellow, the latter marked with white toward dorsum and at costa. In male genitalia, uncus is elongated, with a truncate apex, and gnathos projection is ca. half the length of uncus, with truncate apex. In female genitalia, antrum is barely sclerotised, ductus bursae is long, slender and straight and corpus bursae is large, globular, with a small slightly curved thorn.
Similar species.
No similar species known.
Description.
Head. Antennae dorsally bronze. Proboscis pale yellow. Maxillary palpi brown, inner side pale brown. Labial palpi brown, ventrally pale yellow, inner side pale brown.
Thorax (Fig. 14 View Figures 4–18 ). Collar pale yellow. Forewing length 11 mm (♂), 12 mm (♀); forewing ground colour brown; broad basal yellow band stretching from subdorsum to costa, with crossing veins copper-coloured, edged with copper; costal field copper; median discoidal stigma yellow with copper edges, costally filled with copper, forming together with cubital trapezoid white patch a canine tooth shape; postmedian patch broad, yellow, basally encroached with copper, crossing veins copper-coloured, with white blotch at costa; postmedian line broad, marked on costal half; broad copper postmedian fascia with crossing veins brown; subterminal field marked with a mix of yellow and copper scales; fringe brown, with white dots. Hindwing white to pale brown. Forelegs brown. Midlegs with femur brown; tibia pale yellow, apically brown; tarsi pale yellow to pale brown. Hindlegs with femur brown; tibia pale yellow, speckled with brown; tarsi pale brown.
Abdomen. Male sternum A8 posterior margin bilobed.
Male genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 57 View Figures 52–57 ). Uncus long and slender, with straight lateral margin, apex blunt. Gnathos projection ca. half the length of uncus, with blunt apex. Valva ventral margin nearly straight, in basal half slightly concave, dorsal margin conspicuously rounded, apex pointed. Juxta with base rounded, notched on its middle, medially narrowed, apex rounded, faintly notched on its middle. Saccus triangular. Phallus with truncate cornutus.
Female genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 95 View Figures 95–98 ). Anterior apophyses conspicuously widened at posterior 1/3, with tip pointing dorsad. Antrum sclerotisation weak, ca. as long as broad. Ductus bursae of medium length, straight, slender. Corpus bursae large, globular, posterior half reticulated, anterior half membranous, with weak sclerotisation between corpus opening and thorn. Thorn long, slightly curved, with small dents pointing toward thorn base, basally with small outwardly projected extension.
Distribution.
Known from Mount Yamin (Indonesia: Papua), and Mount Kaindi (Papua New Guinea: Morobe Province), at altitudes between 1,700 m and 2,350 m.
Etymology.
Dedicated to the late Marijo Weiss, a close friend of Théo Léger’s family.
Remarks.
The specimen from Mount Kaindi is very similar to those from Mount Yamin but its postmedian fascia of the forewing is yellow and copper instead of dark copper, and uncus and gnathos projection are slightly longer in male genitalia.
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