Acrolepiopsis fibigeri, Gaedike, 2016

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2016, New and poorly known Acrolepiinae from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2), pp. 257-264 : 260

Acrolepiopsis fibigeri spec. nov.

Holotype: ♂, “ Nepal, Centr. N, Ganesh Himal , Ndesim, 2200 m, 23.x.1995, leg. M. Fibiger;” “Zool. Mus. Kopenhavn;” “Gen. präp. [genitalia slide] Gaedike Nr. 8064;” “Holotypus ♂, Acrolepiopsis fibigeri sp. n., det. R. Gaedike, 2016;” ZMUC.

Derivatio nominis: Named in honour of Michael Fibiger, the well-known specialist of Noctuidae , who has also collected numerous new and poorly known Microlepidoptera.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 5 ): Wingspan 9 mm. Head light greybrown. Labial palpus curved upwards, scales on outside brown mixed with light brown, on inside paler, tip of last segment brown. Scape of antenna brown, flagellum ringed. Thorax and tegulae dark brown mixed with light brown. Forewing ground-colour brown with a light brown, blackish and white pattern. White are: on dorsum at 1/3 a wedge-shaped patch, on costa at apical third three thin stripes and on the entire apical third some minute white dots. On costa at 2/3 an almost blackish patch, obliquely directed to apex, another blackish dot before apex; the entire costa covered with light brown and dark brown short stripes. Hindwing light grey.

Male genitalia ( Figs 20–22 ): Vinculum narrow, saccus very long and thin, with rounded tip; valva basally rounded, parallel-sided to apex, ventral edge of apex with small prolongation, the shape differs depending on preparation; phallus somewhat longer than the entire genital, slightly curved, basally rounded.

Female genitalia: Unknown.

Remarks: Superficially similar to some of the other species from Nepal and Japan, but the genitalia structure (shape of valvae) make the new species clearly distinguishable.

Figures

Fig. 5: Acrolepiopsis fibigeri. Fig. 6: Acrolepia peruana.

Figs 17–23: Acrolepiopsis juratae (male: 17 – uncus-tegu- men-vinculum-saccus, valvae; 18 – phallus), Acrolepiopsis jaspidata (female: 19), Acrolepiopsis fibigeri (male: 20 – genital apparatus, one valva and phallus removed; 21 – left valva; 22 – phallus), Acrolepia peruana (male 23: left valva removed).