Saccharodite gagnei Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 161

Saccharodite gagnei Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length in male about 3.6 mm. Colour light yellowish brown; a mark above eyes orange-brown; junction of frons and clypeus light orange; scutellum bright orange. Forewings glassy; lightly infuscated in clavus and around base of Cu; veins faintly yellowish but Cu and basal parts of Cu1 and Ms1 red; anterior apical crossveins lightly infuscated; base of Sc+R with 4 dark spots. Hindwings with basal parts of Cu and some claval veins orange-red. In profile junction of vertex and face angulated; subantennal processes not connected to margins of facial carinae. Forewings with Sc+R fork before middle of wing; basal median cell broad, about 2x as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated; a small hump between dorsal processes; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process elongated. Apical portion of aedeagus short, tapering towards end, with a narrow, dorsal, longitudinal impression.

Etymology. The species is named for the collector and ' gagnei ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.6 mm), NEW CALEDONIA; labels: 1) NEW CALEDONIA: 30 km / NW Col de Monirange ,/ 175 m, 10.VIII.1979 2) W.C. Gagne Coll. / BISHOP MUSEUM / Acc. No. 1979.380 ( BPBM).

Distribution. New Caledonia.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite gagnei resembles in structure and coloration Sa. crispa sp. nov. (also from New Caledonia), Sa. joycei sp. nov. (from Fiji), and Sa. doddi sp. nov. (from Australia). It can be distinguished from these by the forewings having an infuscated clavus and by the short, slightly pointed apex of the male aedeagus.