Dracontogena schnirchi Karisch, 2005

Aarvik, Leif, Karisch, Timm & Marthinsen, Gunnhild, 2012, Review of the Afrotropical genus Dracontogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 3478, pp. 345-372 : 365

Dracontogena schnirchi Karisch, 2005

( Figs. 74, 75 )

Dracontogena schnirchi Karisch 2005: 464 , text fig. 17, pl. 1, fig. 11.

Type material. Holotype, Ƥ, ZAIRE: Prov. Equateur, Kalamba 55 km südl. Mbandaka, 3 km östlich Ort, 8.viii.1991, T. Karisch, genitalia slide T. Karisch 1676 ( MNVD) .

Diagnosis. Wingspan 24.5 mm. The forewing is blackish brown; the dorsal maculae are broadly interconnected, with dark dots and streaks. The female genitalia has a quadrate sterigma with rounded corners, with the posterior edge strongly sclerotised; and the sclerites posterior of the sterigma are united, forming a broad plate.

Remarks. Known only from the holotype. The broadly interconnected dorsal maculae with tiny marks are characteristic. Without knowledge of the male, the position of D. schnirchi within the genus cannot be determined.

Figures

FIGURES 74 – 77. Female genitalia of Dracontogena. 74 – 75. D. schnirchi Karisch (slide T. Karisch 1676). 76 – 77. D. lucki Karisch (slide BMNH 30598). Figs. 75, 77. Sterigma and sternite 7. Scale figs. 75, 77: 0.5 mm. Figs. 74, 76 from Karisch (2005).