Coleophora centrafricana Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2020

Baldizzone, Giorgio & Van Der Wolf, Hugo W., 2020, On the taxonomy of Afrotropical Coleophoridae (III). New or little known species from Central and Oriental Africa (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae), Zootaxa 4763 (2), pp. 151-174 : 160-162

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.2.1

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A2541EDB-A6B4-4974-BFED-9C70312320B2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3806846

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C987F8-FFB8-FFB9-BCED-AD78FC89FEF3

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scientific name

Coleophora centrafricana Baldizzone & van der Wolf
status

sp. nov.

Coleophora centrafricana Baldizzone & van der Wolf , sp. nov.

( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–8 )

Holotype ♂ ( GP Bldz 15289 ) “ KENYA: Rift Valley | Kajiado North Dist | Masai Lodge, 1665m | 1°23’4”S 36°49’51”E | 28.xi.2010, D. Agassiz & L. Aarvik ”, coll. NHMUK. GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 1 ♂ ( GP Wf 5434) “ KENYA Samburu Nat. P. | Serena Lodge 925 m | 15-II-1989 at light | Leg. R. Schouten 64” “nr. River, shrubs, grass, Acacia trees”, ex coll Wf, coll. Bldz; 1 ♂ ( GP Wf 8954) “ TANZANIA Aru- meru Distr.: Usa River 1170 m | 28.VII.1991 | leg. L. Aarvik”, ex coll. Wf, coll. Bldz.

Diagnosis. In Coleophora centrafricana the forewing costa is brown and white, with the habitus similar to that of many African species. The male genitalia resemble those of C. textoria Meyrick, 1921 ( Baldizzone & van der Wolf, 2015), with obvious differences: in C. centrafricana sp. nov., the seta on the dorsal edge of the valvula is much shorter, the sacculus has a much more evident and less triangular and sharp protuberance than that of C. textoria , and the cornuti are much more numerous and smaller, grouped in a longer and thinner row.

Description. Wingspan 11 mm. Head white. Antenna white, weakly ringed with light-ochre; scape ochre on inner side and white on external side, with a tuft of short scales of same colour. Labial palpus white on inner side, ochre on external side; second segment as long as third. Proboscis short, of normal shape. Thorax white. Tegula whitish ochre. Forewing brown, slightly lighter between anal fold and dorsum; a narrow white costal line that does not reach apex; fringes light brown. Hindwing very light brown with fringes of same colour. Abdomen brown.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 27–29 View FIGURES 27–30 ): Gnathos knob small, oval. Tegumen elongated, pedunculus long. Transtilla short, thin, slightly curved. Valvula large, oval, with curved dorsal edge, bearing a robust seta. Cucullus long, narrower at base, club-shaped. Sacculus narrow and broad, with curved ventral border and lateral expansion bearing a sharp tooth. Phallotheca elongated, conical, with a thin line more sclerotized and jagged in dorsal part; vesica very long and thin. Cornuti numerous, in shape of small spines clustered in a long row.

Abdominal structures ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 27–30 ): No posterior lateral struts. Transverse strut narrow, slightly curved. Tergal disk about 3.5 times as long as wide, covered with about 25 conical spines.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Bionomy. The early stages and the foodplant are unknown.

Distribution. The species is known from Kenya and Tanzania.

Etymology. The name derives from Central Africa.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

GP

Instituto de Geociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Coleophoridae

Genus

Coleophora

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