Saccharodite fasciata Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 130

Saccharodite fasciata Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 1.9 times longer than wide, length: male 3.8–4.8 mm (mean = 4.2, n = 3), female about 4.1 mm. Colour stramineous to light brown; in some specimens around antennae and on thoracic pleura orange (holotype); 2 broad, longitudinal orange-red bands along sides of pro- and mesonotum (rarely faint). Forewings slightly powdered, clouded with faint infuscation; veins stramineous, without orange sections; 4 dark spots on base of Sc+R, numerous fainter spots along veins in apical half of wing. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; subantennal processes well separated from margins of facial carinae; rostrum reaching hind coxae. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell slightly wider than basal cell between Sc+R and M; a triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender, distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus short, tip with an irregular, membranous lobe.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin participle (fasciatus, -a, -um = banded).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.8 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: NE / Mt. Kaindi / 2350 m / 31.XII.1964 2) J. & M. Sedlacek / M. V. Light Trap ( BPBM) . Paratypes. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NEW GUINEA: S. Highlands, Dimifa, SE of Mt. Giluwe, 2200 m, 10.X.1958, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.0), J.L. Gressitt; ( NE) Mt. Wilhelm , 3560 m, 13.VIII.1969, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.8), Ericaceae, Gressitt ; Mt. Amingwiwa, 3000 m, 18.IX.1970, 1 ♀ (fw. 4.1), Gressitt (all BPBM) .

Distribution. Island of New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite fasciata is characterized by the orange-red lateral bands on pro- and mesonotum, by the lack of orange forewing veins, and by the dark spots on the apical forewing veins.