Marcopoloia dea ( Swinhoe, 1890 ) Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021

Yakovlev, Roman V. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2021, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. VI. Genus Tearbela Yakovlev & Zolotuhin gen. nov. from the Bangladesh and Marcopoloia dea (Swinhoe, 1890) comb. nov., Ecologica Montenegrina 45, pp. 43-47 : 45-46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2021.45.8

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2B3D9AAA-3B0D-4980-B631-4F760B638C63

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13233932

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0201562F-FF91-922D-6FE6-F8D0FE47F852

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scientific name

Marcopoloia dea ( Swinhoe, 1890 )
status

comb. nov.

Marcopoloia dea ( Swinhoe, 1890) comb. n.

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Arbela? dea Swinhoe, 1890 , Trans. ent. Soc. London, 1890: 199.

Type locality: Rangoon [ Myanmar] .

Type material. Holotype (male) in NHMUK, examined.

Material examined. Holotype, male, Rng [Rangoon], 5/[18]86 ( NHMUK, slide Cossidae # 259).

Redescription. Male. Length of fore wing 10 mm. Antenna bipectinate, setae 2.5‒3 times longer than antenna rod diameter. Body gracile. Fore wing brown, with poorly expressed pattern of black strokes postdiscally and submarginally, border very thin, black. Fringe light-brown, unicolorous. Hind wing dark-brown with light-brown anal edge. Fringe light-brown, unicolorous.

Genitalia. Uncus long, with parallel lateral sides, slightly extended apically, with triangle notch on apex; gnathos arms thin; subscaphium spindle-like, elongated; valve semicircular, saccular edge strongly sclerotized, lamellar, small mastoid harpe and fold-shaped harpe on saccular third of inner surface of valve; juxta wide, lamellar; saccus reduced; phallus shorter than valve, almost straight, basally swollen, apically narrowing, hooky cornutus closer to apex.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. Judging from the characteristic features of the male genitalia, namely – the poorly extended uncus and the strongly swollen basal end of the phallus, the species belongs to the genus, recently described by us – Marcopoloia Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021 , which leads to the establishment of a new combination: Marcopoloia dea ( Swinhoe, 1890) comb. n. Currently, the genus includes 6 species, distributed in southeastern Asia ( Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021b). Externally, M. dea is most close to M. leloi Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021 (type locality: C. Vietnam, Gia Lai Prov., Kon Ka Kinh NP), from which it differs in the slightly extended apex of the uncus and in the less expressed harpe on the saccular edge of the valve.

Distribution. Myanmar.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Metarbelidae

Genus

Marcopoloia

Loc

Marcopoloia dea ( Swinhoe, 1890 )

Yakovlev, Roman V. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V. 2021
2021
Loc

Arbela? dea

Swinhoe 1890
1890
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