Lutzkobesia tenera ( Roepke, 1957 ) Yakovlev & Vos & Hulsbosch & Zolotuhin, 2022

Yakovlev, Roman V., Vos, Rob De, Hulsbosch, Ramon & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2022, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. VIII. Genus Lutzkobesia Lehmann, 2019, Ecologica Montenegrina 52, pp. 49-52 : 52

Lutzkobesia tenera ( Roepke, 1957) comb. n.

Figs 2 , 4−5

Squamura tenera Roepke, 1957: 51 .

Type locality: Telawa , Central Java .

Type material (holotype) in NBCL .

Material examined. Holotype, male, Telawa, Central Java, 23.x.1933, Kalshoven. Allotype, female, Malang , East Java ( NBCL) .

Male genitalia. Uncus long, wide, apically extended, apex forked; tegumen narrow; gnathos arms thin, hook-like; scaphium and subscaphium fused into wide short spindle-like tube (on the preparation, this structure is shown next to the phallus); valve short, costal edge semicircular, apex of valve slightly drawn, semicircular; elongated longitudinal harpe in lower third of valve; sacculus strongly sclerotized, about 1/2 of lower edge of valve in length; juxta scaphoid; phallus short, basally wide, slightly narrowing apically, strongly curved in medium third, with cuneal cornutus in vesica.

Distribution: Indonesia, Java.

Host plant: Tectona grandis L.f. ( Lamiaceae ) ( Roepke 1957).

Figures

Figures 1−2. Adult specimens of Lutzkobesia (holotypes, males): 1. L. hollowayi Lehmann, 2019 (from Lehmann, 2019) (ZSM); 2. Lutzkobesia tenera (Roepke, 1957) comb. n. (NBCL).

Figures 3−4. Male genitalia of Lutzkobesia (holotypes): 1. L. hollowayi Lehmann, 2019 (from Lehmann, 2019); 2. Lutzkobesia tenera (Roepke, 1957) comb. n.

Figure 5. Distributional map of Lutzkobesia.