Asylemissa comma Fibiger, 2010

FIBIGER, MICHAEL, 2010, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae, Zootaxa 2583 (1), pp. 1-119 : 65-66

Asylemissa comma Fibiger , new species

( Plate 8 , figure 2; male genit. plate 17, figure 4)

Material examined. Holotype: male, NE Thailand, Chaiyapumh Distr. , Phu Khieo, 2–4.v.1986, leg. M.G. Allen, genit. prep. 3210 M. Fibiger, coll. BMNH.

Diagnosis. Image (external). Wingspan: 8 mm.

Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, costal part of medial area, and fringes: blackish brown, costal medial area quadrangular.

Crosslines: partly indistinct, light brown.

Terminal line: indistinct, indicated by few black, interneural dots.

Reniform stigma: white, outlined by light brown.

Hindwing: grey, without discal spot.

Underside: forewing light brown; hindwing light grey.

Male genitalia. Tegumen: relatively narrow throughout.

Vinculum and saccus: inconspicuous.

Saccus: short, broadly U shaped.

Valvae: short, narrow, asymmetrical.

Clasper: barlike, slightly oblique to valva margins.

Ampulla: circular; asymmetrical; right one with prominent, commalike process, ventrally directed (apo.).

Juxta-anellus plate: asymmetrical; with hole for phallus dorsal, left; juxta quadrangular, pointed ventrally (apo.)

Phallus: short; strongly curved, broadest by coecum, tapered smoothly to pointed tip (apo.).

Vesica: armed with a long, narrow, sclerotised plate (apo).

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. A. comma differs from other Obscurini species in:

- yellow ground colour throughout, except fringes;

- with black tornal patch;

- weakly-marked reniform stigma;

male genitalia, in

- ampulla circle shaped;

- right ampulla with large, spinelike process;

- phallus strongly curved, broadest by coecum;

- vesica with long, narrow, sclerotised plate.

Distribution. A. comma known only from NE Thailand.

Figures

PLATE 8. Figures 1–8. Clarior and Obscura species, adults. 1, Tantulius belli, female holotype, abdomen lost, India S, Kawar; 2. Asylemissa comma, male holotype, NE Thailand, Chaiyapumh Distr.; 3, Clarior kitchingi, male holotype, Thailand N, Dot Phu Kha Nat. P.; 4, Obscura lateraprocessa, female holotype, Indonesia, N. Sumatra; 5, O. clarus, male holotype, Indonesia, West Sumatra; 6, O. niasiensis, male holotype, Indonesia, S Nias Isl.; 7, O. fragilis, female holotype, Thailand NW, Mae Hong Son; 8, O. davisi, male paratype, Sri Lanka, District, Chundikkulam Sanct.