Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kirkaldy, 1902

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Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kirkaldy, 1902

Fig. 10G–H

Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kirkaldy, 1902: 57 .

Thaumastomiris sanguinalis – Distant 1904b: 473, fig. 305 (redescr.) — Stonedahl 1988: 96 (figs 93, 100, redescr.).

Diagnosis

Distinguished by the following characters: total length 4.8–5.4; dorsum uniformly bright reddish; left wall of genital capsule with two short subapical spines ( Stonedahl 1988: fig. 100a); aedeagus with twinconed subapical sclerotized process ( Stonedahl 1988: fig. 100e).

Material examined

Paralectotype

SRI LANKA • 1 ♀; Ceylon; [handwritten:] ” Thaumastomiris sanguinalis K. cotype“, ”Mus. Zool. H:fors Spec. typ. No 9852 Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kir. “; AMNH _ PBI 00338732 ; FMNH .

Other material

SRI LANKA • 2 ♀♀; Ceylon , Peradeniya; 7.263° N, 80.603° E; 497 m a.s.l.; May 1911; NHM • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Ceylon , Peradeniya; 7.263° N, 80.603° E; 497 m a.s.l.; Jan. 1900; ”Mus. Zool. H:fors Spec. typ. No 9851 Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kir. “; AMNH _ PBI 00338733 ; FMNH • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Haragama ; 7.233° N, 80.733° E; 584 m a.s.l.; May 1911; NHM • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Ceylon ; USNM .

Host

Kirkaldy (1902) reported Crinum asiaticum (Amaryllidaceae) as a host in the original description.

Distribution

Sri Lanka.

Remarks

Refer to the Remarks section of T. piceatus for the discussion of distinctive features. Stonedahl (1988) designated the male as the lectotype of T. sanguinalis from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum and mentioned that the paralectotype female is apparently deposited in the same collection but that he hadn’t seen the specimen. We found this paralectotype in the collection of the Finnish Museum of Natural History together with three specimens from the same series most probably not seen by Kirkaldy but labelled as types (see material examined).

Figures

Fig. 10. Dorsal view and label data of Thaumastomiris spp. A–B. Thaumastomiris philippinensis Hsiao, 1944, ♀, holotype, USNM. C–D. Thaumastomiris piceatus Distant, 1911, ♂, lectotype, NHM. E–F. Thaumastomiris piceatus Distant, 1910, ♀, specimen from Burma, USNM. G–H. Thaumastomiris sanguinalis Kirkaldy, 1902, ♀, specimen from Sri Lanka, NHM.