Saccharodite pirum Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 172-173

Saccharodite pirum Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 1.9 times longer than wide, length: male about 3.4 mm, female 2.4–3.1 mm (mean = 2.8, n = 3). Colour orange; labium, lower parts of facial carinae, subantennal processes, scutellum, and legs (except hind femora) stramineous; abdomen bright orange-red, but male genitalia stramineous. Forewings colourless, very faintly infuscated from hind margin around clavus tip to basal median cell; veins colourless to faintly yellowish, but orange around clavus tip; some spots on R and M tinted with orange; three dark spots on base of Sc+R. Hindwings with veins in basal half orange-red. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; face produced in front of antennae; subantennal processes well separated from margins of facial carinae; rostrum surpassing post trochanters. Forewings with Sc+R fork near middle of wing; basal median cell narrow, about as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; Ms1 unbranched, no triangle at base of Ms1; sensory pits on middle of R and M, and on base of Cu. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow; genital styles elongated; proximal dorsal process short and slender, distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus large and membranous, tapering towards tip.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin noun ( pirum = a pear) used in apposition.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.4 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: NE./ Adelbert Mts : Wanuma / 800–1000m X.26.1958 2) J.L. Gressitt / Collector ( BPBM) . Paratypes. INDONESIA: PAPUA: Sentani, 20–24. VI .1959, 1 ♂, light trap, J.L. Gressitt; PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NE , Amok , 165 m, 6.I.1960, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (fw. 2.4), T .C. Maa; Sepik Distr., Dreikikir, 24. VI .1961, 1 ♀ (fw. 2.8), grasses, J.L. & M. Gressitt; Madang, 5 m, 28.X.1958, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.1), Pipturus, Gressitt (all BPBM) .

Distribution. Island of New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite pirum is well characterized by the produced face, the orange colour and the forewings having an unbranched 1st median sector.