Alara clava Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 20

Alara clava Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.4 times longer than wide, length 2.7–3.0mm. Colour stramineous to light brown, frons, clypeus, labium, mesonotum, fore femora and tips of hind femora as well as hind tarsi darker brown; tibiae and tarsi of fore- and middle legs dark reddish brown; last two abdominal segments of male reddish, genitalia dark grey, abdomen of female light brown. Forewings powdered, greyish brown; veins of same colour, but near costal and apical margins orange-red. Hindwings greyish brown, most of margins orange-red. Rostrum reaching end of abdomen; antennae and eyes small. Forewings with Sc+R fork in basal third; Ms1 branched before its middle, bases of Ms1 and Cu1 connected by a cross-vein. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow, slightly produced at the sides. Genital styles broad, rounded; dorsal processes separated by a small gap. Aedeagus long and slender; apical part flat, its tip curved ventrad; near the end two short, dorsal lobes.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin noun ( clava = a club) used in apposition.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.0 mm, body 1.5 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: SABAH; labels: 1) BOR- NEO ( BRIT.N.)/ Sandakan Bay ( NW)/ Sepilok For. Res./ 1–10m, X-30-1957 2) Calamus 3) J.L. Gressitt / Collector ( BPBM) . Paratype. Same data as holotype, 1 ♀ (fw. 2.7) ( BPBM) .

Distribution. Borneo (Sabah).

Diagnosis. Alara clava is similar to A. quatei Zelazny from the Philippines and A. lingua sp. nov. from New Guinea. It can be separated from the first by the absence of marks on the facial carinae, by the long apical part of the male aedeagus, and by the male genital styles having the dorsal processes close together; it differs from the second species by the reddish tibiae and tarsi of the first two pairs of legs, by the more greyish forewings, and by the more slender male aedeagus.