Dracontogena bernardi Karisch, 2005

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 : 355

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Dracontogena bernardi Karisch, 2005 View in CoL

( Figs. 10 View FIGURES 10 – 17 , 28 View FIGURES 23 – 33 , 41, 42 View FIGURES 41 – 46 )

Dracontogena bernardi Karisch, 2005: 463 View in CoL , text fig. 14.

Type material. Holotype, 3, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Katana, W. Kivu, 5000–7000 ft., April ’24 Wet season, T.A. Barns, genitalia slide BMNH 30596 ( BMNH) .

Other material. UGANDA: 333 Kabale Distr.: Ruhija, 2330 m., S 0 1o 03,088’ E 29o46,733’, 4–7.xi.2007, L. Aarvik & M. Fibiger, genitalia slides L. Aarvik 2808, 2832 (LA).

Redescription. Adult. Male ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 10 – 17 ). Head: Blackish brown. Antenna dark grey, scape white. Labial palpus 1.5 times diameter of eye, blackish brown, extreme tip white. Thorax: Brownish grey, blackish in front, white posterior scale tuft; tegulae pale brown. Legs dark grey, tarsi with paler rings, tibiae with basal, medial and distal light dots, hind tibia with grey scale tuft. Wingspan 20.0–23.0 mm. Forewing upperside black, with weak brown suffusion in terminal third; dorsal maculae pure white, connection between them not interrupted, outer one may have one or two small dark dots on dorsum. Hindwing light brownish grey; scales in cell modified, narrow, darkened; veins darkened; termen slightly concave before anal corner; fringes white.

Female unknown.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 41, 42 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ). Indistinguishable from those of D. solii n. sp. Vesica (n=3) with 11–17 small cornuti. Tergite 8 ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 23 – 33 ) long, with oblique lateral sides, becoming broader towards posterior end.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. D. bernardi Karisch has the same hindwing shape as D. solii n. sp. However, it can immediately be separated from the latter by the lack of the conspicuous black scale patch on the hindwing upperside.

Distribution. Known from the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and from western Uganda.

Biology. The habitat in Uganda is the edge of mountain forests.

Remarks. The male genitalia of D. bernardi Karisch and D. solii n. sp. are virtually indistinguishable, indicating that the two are closely related in spite of their striking external differences. Karisch (2005) placed D. bernardi in the metamorphica -group; however, it is herewith transferred to the niphadonta -group.