Dracontogena niphadonta, Diakonoff, 1970

Aarvik, Leif, Karisch, Timm & Marthinsen, Gunnhild, 2012, Review of the Afrotropical genus Dracontogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight new species, Zootaxa 3478, pp. 345-372 : 348

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scientific name	Dracontogena niphadonta
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Dracontogena niphadonta View in CoL species group

Male abdomen with coremata on segment 8; valva with internal circular scale patch. In most species the male has modifications in the hindwing. The potential modifications are described above. These modifications can be more or less pronounced in the different members of the group. The only species in which the male completely lacks hindwing modifications is Dracontogena agassizi n. sp.

Dracontogena niphadonta Diakonoff, 1970 View in CoL

Dracontogena niphadonta Diakonoff, 1970: 124 View in CoL , figs. 1a–f, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10a, 14, 34; Karisch 2005: 459, text figs. 3, 4, 5, 7, 10a, pl. 1, figs. 1–3.

Material examined. Numerous specimens of both sexes from MNHN, Paris.

Diagnosis. The deeply notched termen and a patch of black sex scales on the hindwing are shared only with D. tonitrualis (Meyrick) . The male genitalia, however, resemble those of D. continentalis Karisch.

Distribution. This is the only Dracontogena species known from Madagascar.

Remarks. Razowski & Trematerra (2010) recorded D. niphadonta from Ethiopia. This specimen is probably conspecific with D. agassizi n. sp. described below.