Glyphidocera aedis, DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005

DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), Zootaxa 858, pp. 1-158 : 27-28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.170793

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:511FBF55-10F2-4A00-B15B-CBD34EAB023E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6267872

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2E2A7A1D-FFCA-E054-FED5-60A4FEFAFD01

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Glyphidocera aedis
status

sp. nov.

Glyphidocera aedis , new species

(Figs. 27–29, 300, Map 5 View MAP 5 )

Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera aedis is similar to G. rodríguezi but differs by having a shorter apical furca of the valval costa, and a wider distal part of the valva.

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

Thorax: Scales of tegula and mesonotum brown tipped with pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale­brown scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 300): Length 7.4–8.9 mm (n = 9), brown intermixed with pale­brown scales and brown scales tipped with pale brown; cell with 2 brown spots, 1 large spot in middle, and 1 smaller spot near distal end [some specimens with a large brown spot near base of cell]. Undersurface brown except costa brown intermixed with pale­brown scales. Hindwing: Brownish gray.

Abdomen (Fig. 27): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of minute sex scales on intersegmental areas 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. 28–29): Uncus elongate, wide at base, constricted near 1/3 length, broadly rounded apically, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent basally, forming a wide base, fusing midway between posteroventral margin of tegumen and base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a basal digitate process to apical furca; furca short, acuminate, with a wide base; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, forming an elongate cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a straight, and elongate outer margin, and a broadly rounded apicoventral margin; vesica of aedeagus denticilate, bearing a large, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.

Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Heredia: Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva, 50–150 m 10°26'N, 84°01'W, Aug. 1993, INBio­OET”, “L/01/060, 18 Agosto 1993, Bosque primario”, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI001, 230133 ” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 874” [yellow label].

Paratypes (8 ɗ): 1 ɗ, Same label data as above except, “L/02/062”, “CRI001, 234844”; 1 ɗ, “ 18 Jun., L/01/044”, CRI001, 228451”; 1 ɗ, “ 19 Julio 1993, Lab. clearing, L/04/053”, “CRI001, 233746”; 1 ɗ, “ 17 Ene. 1993, Lab. area, L0015”, “CRI001, 223275”; 2 ɗ, “ 14 Febrero 1994, Bosque primario, L/02/102”, “CRI001, 242166”, “CRI001, 242167”; 1 ɗ, “ 10 Febrero 1994, Bosque secundario, L/03/097”, “CRI001, 259613”; 1 ɗ, “ 4 Marzo 1996, L/00/175/SOR 700 m ”, “CRI001, 250704 ”, “Slide No. 925”, (4 in INBio, 4 in USNM).

Distribution ( Map 5 View MAP 5 ): Glyphidocera aedis is known from a single collecting site in north­central Costa Rica.

Etymology: The species epithet aedis is derived from the Latin “aedes,” meaning temple.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Symmocidae

Genus

Glyphidocera

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF