Rhotana fordi Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 89

Rhotana fordi Zelazny , sp. nov.

( Figs. 27, 225)

Description. Forewings 1.7 times longer than wide, length about 5.5 mm. Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae light brown; clypeus except at its base orange. Forewings with some apical cross-veins and a short section of Sc faintly orange. Male genitalia with sides of pygofer bearing prominent projections; anal segment with a pair of short lateral processes. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process triangular; distal dorsal process slender and erect, curved outwards. Both processes widely separated. Aedeagus short and broad; apical portion with a prominent pointed process at its base, and another broad, pointed process on its ventral side; end truncated.

Etymology. The species is named for the collector and ' fordi ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 5.5 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA: PAPUA; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: PAPUA / Brown River / May 21–25-1956 2) E.J. Ford, Jr./ light trap ( BPBM).

Note. Figure 27 shows a male specimen from Bainyik , Papua in AMS (20.XII.1963, D.K. McAlpine, J.W. Evans collection, ASCTHE017620). The photograph has been provided by Murray J. Fletcher, who also identified the specimen .

Distribution. New Guinea (Papua).

Diagnosis. Rhotana fordi is externally indistinguishable from R. similis sp. nov. and very similar to R. dentata sp. nov., both also from New Guinea. It can be separated from both by the triangular ventral process on the apical part of the male aedeagus.