Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae)
Author
DAVID ADAMSKI
text
Zootaxa
2005
858
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journal article
38788
10.5281/zenodo.170793
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1175-5334
170793
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Glyphidocera harenae
,
new species
(Figs. 219–221, 360,
Map 40
)
Diagnosis.—
Glyphidocera harenae
is most similar to
G. crepidae
but differs from the latter by having an abdomen with more rows of sex scales between terga
2–3 in
male, a complete dorsal strut of tegumen, a longer valva, costal furcae of valva near parallel, and vesica of aedeagus without spinelike cornuti.
Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with palebrown scales to apical margin of segment II, inner margin pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape brown intermixed with few palebrown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and palebrown scales; male 4th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of 4th flagellomere; proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with few palebrown scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 360): Length 5.0–
6.1 mm
(n = 3), brown intermixed with few palebrown scales; cell with 1 faint, brown spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown.
Abdomen (Fig. 219): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3.
Male Genitalia (Figs. 220–221): Uncus elongate, broadly constricted near 1/3, gradually widened apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut with arms convergent, fusing medially from posteroventral margin, extending dorsally to midlength, gradually widening to base of uncus; valva with costa gradually upturned broadly from a shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to a raised dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, furcae large, widely divergent, parallel; sacculus twisted apically constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally, forming a broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus densely denticulate, bearing a large, sickleshaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.
Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype
, ɗ, “Est[ación] Sirena, P[arque] N[acional] Corcovado,
0–100 m
, Prov[incia] Punt[arenas],
COSTA RICA
, G. Fonseca,
Mar. 1991
, LS
270500
, 508300”, “INBio:
COSTA RICA
: CRI000, 447830” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 799” [yellow label].
Paratypes
(2 ɗ): Same label data as
holotype
except, “
Mar. 1992
”, “CRI000, 780697”, “Slide No. 792”; “CRI000, 621786”, “Slide No. 801”, (
1 in
INBio,
1 in
USNM).
Distribution (
Map 40
):
Glyphidocera harenae
is known from one coastal collecting site in southeastern
Costa Rica
, south of the Osa Peninsula.
Etymology: The species epithet
harenae
is derived from the Latin “harena,” meaning sand.