Saccharodite montana Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 171

Saccharodite montana Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.1 times longer than wide, length in male 4.1–4.3 mm (mean = 4.2, n = 3). Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae above eyes orange; a longitudinal, light orange band on frons; middle of pronotum orange; mesonotum light brown, gradually turning orange towards scutellum which is bright orange; fore legs tinted with orange; middle and hind femora with an orange-red mark; abdomen stramineous in basal half, brownish in apical half, but genitalia stramineous. Forewings glassy; faintly infuscated from base of Ms1 to hind margin around clavus tip, and along apical crossveins; veins stramineous, but last subcostal sector, apices of costa, Sc , and R, as well as apical crossveins between Sc and R, and between R and M orange-red, base of Sc+R with several dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face angulated; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae; rostrum reaching hind coxae. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell broad, more than twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small trapezoid cell at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles slightly widening towards end; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process long. Aedeagus stem widening towards end; apical part consisting of two flat, contiguous lobes.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (montanus, -a, -um = of the mountain).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.3 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: PAPUA / S. Highlands: Dimifa / SE of Mt. Giluwe,/ 2200m., X.10.1958 2) J.L. Gressitt / Light Trap ( BPBM) . Paratypes. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: PAPUA: S. Highlands: Mendi , 1660m, 13.X.1958, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.1) , T. C. Maa; Aiyurop, nr. Mendi , 1530m, 7.X.1958, 1 ♂, J.L. Gressitt; same data as holotype, 2 ♂ (fw. 4.1) (all BPBM).

Distribution. New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite montana resembles Sa. minuscula sp. nov., also from New Guinea. It can be distinguished by the middle of the pronotum being coloured orange, by the middle femora having an orange mark instead of an orange stripe, and by the much large apical part of the male aedeagus.