Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae
Author
FIBIGER, MICHAEL
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Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1
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Duplex weintraubi
Fibiger
,
new species
(
Plate 10
, figure 5; male genit. plate 19, figure 6)
Material examined.
Holotype
.
Male
,
East Timor
,
Cova-Lima District
,
Tilomar
,
17 km
W Suai
,
40 m
,
18.viii.1990
, leg.
J. Weintraub
&
Agosti
, genit. prep. 6057
M. Fibiger
, coll.
ANIC
.
Diagnosis. Imago (external).
Wingspan:
8 mm
.
Labial palps: grey, third segment half length of second, third segment only slightly narrower than second.
Head, thorax, and ground colour forewing, including fringes: grey or blackish grey.
Forewing: grey in basal, subterminal, and terminal areas, including fringes; medial area dark brown (apo.).
Reniform stigma: bright yellow, ovoid, outlined black.
Crosslines: all lines present, beige (apo.), jagged or waved, terminal line marked by dense black interneural spots.
Hindwing: light grey, discal spot absent.
Underside: forewing dark grey; hindwing grey, with indistinct discal spot.
Abdomen: grey, with dark grey tuft on basal segment.
Male genitalia.
Tegumen and vinculum: inconspicuous.
Saccus: broad, rounded apically.
Juxta-anellus plate: totally fused; arched, semi-globular; with hole for phallus; hole prominently displaced to left; at dorsal edge two, long, spinelike, parallel, narrow processes.
Valvae: slightly asymmetrical.
Ampulla: large; like two plates, medially separated by deep cleft; dorsal plate almost round; ventral plate strongly elongated ventrally (apo.).
Digitus: absent. Phallus: long, narrow, tapered, curved 300º; coiled clockwise (apo.). Vesica: unarmed.
Differential diagnosis.
D. weintraubi
differs from other
Duplex
species
in dark-brown medial area, surrounded by grey colour of rest of forewing; beige crosslines; strongly elongated ventral plate of ampulla; and 300
o
coiled phallus.
Distribution.
D. weintraubi
known only from
East Timor
, at southern coast near Tilomar.