Glyphidocera rodriguezi, DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005

DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), Zootaxa 858, pp. 1-158 : 42-44

Glyphidocera rodriguezi , new species

(Figs. 2, 60–62, 307, Map 11 )

Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera rodriguezi is similar to G. a e d i s but differs by having a longer apical furca of the valval costa and a narrower distal part of the valva.

Description.— Head (Fig. 2): Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales, segment II with pale­brown scales along apical margin; inner surface pale brown intermixed with brown scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale­brown scales; male 4th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of 4th flagellomere; proboscis brown.

Thorax: Scales of tegula and mesonotum brown tipped with pale brown. Legs with brown scales tipped with pale brown and pale­brown scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 307): Length 7.7–9.1 mm (n = 53), Scales brown tipped with pale brown; distal 1/3 slightly darker than basal 2/3; cell with 2 large brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Grayish brown.

Abdomen (Fig. 60): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Sex scales between terga 2–3 appear slightly larger than the sex scales between terga 3–4.

Male Genitalia (Figs. 61–62): Uncus elongate, slightly constricted above a widened base, apically widened to an acuminate and sparsely setose apex; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent from a widened base, fusing midway between posteroventral margin of tegumen to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal digitate process to apical furca; furca acuminate, slightly excavated dorsally; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, dilated distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with short, nearly truncate outer margin; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a large, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus slightly shortened on one side, exposing a large, hollow, basal cavity.

Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] Cuatro, Esquinas, P[arque] N[acional] Tortuguero, 0 m, Prov[incia] Limón, COSTA RICA, J. Solano, Oct. 1990, L­N­280000, 590500”, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 178834” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 838” [yellow label].

Paratypes (52 ɗ): 2 ɗ, Same label data as holotype except, “L/02/062”, “CRI001, 234829”, “Slide No. 873”; “CRI001, 234806”; 1 ɗ, “ 13 Ene. 1993, L0009”, “CRI001, 219488”; 1 ɗ, “ 20 Mar. 1993, Arboleda, L/05/021”, “CRI001, 226054”; 1 ɗ, “ 20 Julio 1994, L/01/109”, “CRI001, 243886”; 1 ɗ, “ 1 Julio 1994, Bosque secundario, L/00/111”, “CRI001, 262151”; 1 ɗ, “ 10 Febrero 1994, L/03/097”, “CRI001, 259612”; 1 ɗ, “ 28 Feb 1996, L/04/168, Biblioteca”, “CRI001, 250663 ”, “Slide No. 903”; 1 ɗ, “ 12 Feb. 1996, L/ 04/140, Biblioteca”, “CRI001, 258205”; 1 ɗ, “ 13 Febrero 1996, L/04/142”, “CRI001, 258070”; 1 ɗ, “ 15 Feb. 1996, STR 250 m, L/00/148”, “CRI001, 251015 ”; 1 ɗ, “ 19 Feb. 1996, L/05/159, Arboleda”, “CRI001, 250084”, “Slide No. 881”; 1 ɗ, “ 22 Feb. 1996, L/ 04/162, Biblioteca”, “CRI001, 257947”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/160, CES 300 m ”, “CRI002, 057138”; 1 ɗ, “ 4 Marzo 1996, L/04/172, Biblioteca”, “CRI002, 057072”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/173, CES 600 m ”, “CRI002, 057039”, “Slide No. 882”; 2 ɗ, 6 Marzo 1996, L/00/179, CCC 650 m ”, “CRI002, 057675”, “CRI002, 057678”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/177, STR 545 m ”, “CRI001, 250851 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/04/176, Biblioteca”, “CRI001, 250925 ”; 3 ɗ, “ 11 Marzo 1996, L/00/180, STR 1850 m ”, CRI001, 250796 ”, “CRI001, 250793 ”, “CRI001, 250792 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/181, STR 2050 m ”, “CRI001, 250739 ”; 3 ɗ, “ 13 Marzo 1996, L/00/187, STR 450 m ”, “CRI002, 058145”, “CRI002, 058113”, “CRI002, 058149”, “Slide No. 916”; 2 ɗ, “ 21 Marzo 1996, L/04/192, Biblioteca”, “CRI002, 058330”, “CRI002, 058336”; 2 ɗ, “ 25 Marzo 1996, L/ 04/196, Biblioteca”, “CRI001, 257119”, “CRI001, 257110”; 1 ɗ, “ 27 Marzo 1996, L/04/ 202, Biblioteca”, “CRI002, 058814”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/201, CCC 650 m ”, “CRI002, 059039”, “Slide No. 910”; 2 ɗ, “ 8 Abril 1996, L/00/207, STR 2550 m ”, “CRI002, 059779”, “CRI002, 059775”; 1 ɗ, “ 15 Abril 1996, L/00/213, STR 540 m ”, “CRI002, 060065”; 2 ɗ, “ 17 Abril 1996, L/00/217, CCC 650 m ”, “CRI002, 060327 ”, “CRI002, 060336 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/ 05/216, Arboleda”, “CRI002, 060356 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/219, STR 300 m ”, “CRI002, 060496 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/04/218, Biblioteca”, “CRI002, 060205 ”; 1 ɗ, “ 22 Abril 1996, L/04/220, Biblioteca”, “CRI002, 061154 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/221, CES 200 m ”, “CRI002, 061106 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/05/ 222, Arboleda”, “CRI002, 060715 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/00/223, SOR 700 m ”, “CRI002, 060643 ”; 2 ɗ, “ 24 Abril 1996, L/00/227, STR 500 m ”, “CRI 060603 ”, “CRI002, 060608 ”; 1 ɗ, “ 29 Abril 1996, L/00/229, STR 300 m ”, “CRI002, 061864 ”; 1 ɗ, “L/04/228, Biblioteca”, “CRI 061654 ”; 1 ɗ, Est. Cuatro Esquinas, P. N. Tortuguero, 0 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, J. Solano, Oct. 1990, L­N­280000, 590500”, “CRI000, 178794”, “Slide No. 837”; 1 ɗ, “E. Rojas, 20 Set. – 7 Oct. 1990 ”, “CRI000, 676842”, “Slide No. 839”; 1 ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Prov. Limón, Sector Cedrales de la Rita, 3 km N del Puente Río Suerte, Ruta Puerto Lindo., 10 m, Oct. 1996, E. Rojas, L­N­ 278600, 566500, # 44661”, “CRI002, 492793”, “Slide No. 851”, (37 in INBio, 15 in USNM).

Distribution ( Map 11 ): Glyphidocera rodríguezi is know from three collecting sites in north­central Costa Rica between Cordillera Central and the coastline along the Caribbean Sea.

Etymology: The species is named in honor of Carlos M. Rodgríguez.

Figures

MAP 11. Distribution of Glyphidocera rodríguezi () and G. capsae (). Outlying circles indicate multiple adjacent localities.