Tactusa minor Fibiger, 2010
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7C67FC6F-2D29-FFB3-FF28-FFACECD874E6 |
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Felipe |
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Tactusa minor Fibiger |
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sp. nov. |
Tactusa minor Fibiger View in CoL , new species
( Plate 3 View PLATE 3 , figure 4; female genit. plate 22, figure 7)
Material examined. Holotype: female, Thailand N, Chiang Mai, 750 m, 11.xii.1985, leg. M.G. Allen, BM 1986 – 209 , genit. prep. 3192 M. Fibiger, coll. BMNH.
Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 11 mm.
tornus.
Crosslines: only subterminal and terminal lines visible, former line white, jagged, and latter marked by dark brown spots.
Reniform stigma: present but weakly marked by lower edge of triangular costal patch.
Hindwing: dark grey, with indistinct discal spot.
Underside: unicolorous grey.
Abdomen: grey with black crest dorsally on first segment.
Male genitalia. Unknown.
Female genitalia. Ovipositor: quadrangular with rounded corners.
Posterior apophyses: almost twice as long as anterior apophyses.
Anterior apophyses: slightly longer than 8 th abdominal segment.
Ostium: displaced to left.
Antrum: prominent, long, curved, conelike, tapered (apo.).
Ductus bursae: membranous, long, narrow; twice as long as corpus bursae.
Appendix bursae: arising anteriorly from ductus bursae, immediately after antrum.
Corpus bursae: globular.
Signum: cross shaped.
Differential diagnosis. T. minor differs from other Micronoctuidae from SE Asian and Oriental regions in combination of three features: small size, yellow ground colour and, in female genitalia, long, curved conelike antrum.
Distribution. Known from one specimen from N Thailand.
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