Saccharodite saucia Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 157

Saccharodite saucia Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 1.9 times longer than wide, length in male about 3.9 mm. Colour stramineous; facial carinae in front of eyes orange; a central, faintly orange mark on frons and base of clypeus; a red stripe across base of scutellum; fore tibiae and tarsi faintly orange; middle and hind femora with faint orange marks. Forewings glassy; faintly infuscated from apex of Cu to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; last subcostal sector accompanied by red; veins stramineous, but following veins orange-red: middle and apical parts of costa, last subcostal sector, apices of Sc and Cu, cross-veins between Sc and R, apical crossveins, hind margin near clavus tip, as well as veins around Sc+R fork, bases of Ms1, Ms2, and Ms3. Hindwings colourless. In profile, junction of vertex and face slightly angulated. Forewings with a broad basal median cell. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process wide, the short, pointed tip curved inwards; distal dorsal process long and slender. Stem of aedeagus swollen in apical half; apical portion of aedeagus short and narrow with a dorsal, longitudinal groove, lacking any processes or lobes.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (saucius, -a, -um = wounded).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.9 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Tawau, Quoin Hill / 15–20.VII.1962 2) H. Holtmann / Malaise Trap / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratype. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Tawau, Quoin Hill , Cocoa Res. Stn., 3.IX.1962, 1 ♂, light trap, Y. Hirashima ( BPBM) .

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite saucia is related to the large group of Saccharodite species which have in profile a slightly angulated junction of vertex and face, broad forewings (with a broad basal median cell), and a broad proximal dorsal process on the male genital styles (e.g. Sa. kagoshimana (Matsumura) or Sa. imperiali Zelazny , both also found in Borneo). It is characterized by the red stripe across the scutellum base and by the very simple apical portion of the male aedeagus.