Asytegumen Fibiger, 2010
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7C67FC6F-2D78-FFE3-FF28-F84BEB647386 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Asytegumen Fibiger |
status |
gen. nov. |
Genus Asytegumen Fibiger View in CoL , new genus
Type-species: Asytegumen absurdus Fibiger , new species.
Taxonomic notes. The genus Asytegumen is monotypic. Features of the genitalia relate it to the previous genus, Editum , more distantly to the other species of Obscurini ; see the taxonomic notes under Editum . The genus is characterised by several unique features.
Diagnosis. Image (external). Wingspan: 9–10 mm.
Labial palps: porrect; second segment brown outside, beige inside, roughly scaled vertically; third segment 1/4 of second, narrow, beige.
Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, and costal part of medial area: blackish brown.
Forewing ground colour: brown; with dark brown patches, including tornal patch (apo.).
Abdomen: grey, with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: all lines present, brown, terminal line well marked by brown interneural dots (apo.).
Reniform stigma: indistinctly marked, beige.
Hindwing: grey, without discal spot.
Underside: forewing brown, hindwing grey, without discal spot.
Male and Female genitalia. Male and female genitalia described under type-species.
Differential diagnosis. Asytegumen unlike any other species of Micronoctuidae (see autapomorphies above and under type-species), but apomorphies of Obscurini present (see also under genus Editum , Taxonomic notes.).
Distribution. Asytegumen is known only from Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak.
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