Saccharodite propinqua Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 144

Saccharodite propinqua Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewing length in female about 4.3 mm. Frons with a conspicuous orange mark and hind femora red. Male genitalia with apical portion of aedeagus bearing two flat lobes. However, both lobes not parallel, the right one positioned horizontally, the left one vertically.

Note. Very similar to Saccharodite perlucida sp. nov. The above description has been shortened, due to this similarity.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (propinquus, -a, -um = neighbouring).

Type material. Holotype ♂, EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SARAWAK; labels: 1) BORNEO: SARAWAK/ Bau dist. Pang-/ Kalan Tebang / 300–450 m./ Sept. 5–8, '58 2) T. C. Maa / Collector / No. MB 306 ( BPBM) . Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Sandakan , 2 ♀ (fw. 4.3 mm), Baker ( BPBM, USNM) ; SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu , Nat. Park, 50 m, 7.I.1978, 1 ♀, J.D. Holloway ( BMNH) .

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite propinqua is closely related to Sa. perlucida sp. nov. (also from Borneo) but has a conspicuous orange mark on the frons and red hind femora. It is further very similar to Sa. separata Zelazny from the Philippines which, however, has the infuscation on the forewing base covering the basal quarter of the wing, including the basal median cell. As in these species, the forewing shape and venation is close to that of the genus Muiralevu . The assignment to Saccharodite is based on the forewings being glassy with the Sc+R fork located near its middle and on the red coloration.