Trinoridia piperica sp. nov.

Figs. 3 E–F, 6 E–F, 9 C–D, 10 J, 13 E–H, 46 A–H.

Male and female. General habitus brown with numerous tiny yellow spots. Eyes and ocelli black. Face pale yellow, frontoclypeus and clypellus dark brown with a median pale yellow stripe extending to base of clypellus, clypellar suture dark brown. Forewing venation light brown, interrupted by dark brown spots. Lateral stripe on thoracic pleura dark brown interrupted by pale yellow. Hind femoral apices, tibiae and tarsal segments black, setae on hind tibiae dark brown to light brown (Figs. 3 E–F, 6 E–F, 9 C–D). Female seventh sternite with posterior margin slightly convex, with median concavity, lateral margins conically rounded, slightly produced posteriorly (Fig. 10 J).

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view triangular, setose throughout, with small rounded caudodorsal lobe and digitate process on caudoventral margin (Fig. 46 H). Subgenital plate long, inner lateral margin slightly sinuate, apex somewhat truncate, with setae (Fig.46 D). Style symmetrical, broad at base, apophysis of uniform width in basal ¾, narrowed towards apex (Fig. 46 E). Connective with lateral margins strongly sinuate, longer than wide at base with distinct median ledge extending entire length (Fig. 46 F). Aedeagus slightly curved in apical 1/ 3 in lateral view, with four short, glabrous and one long, spinose subapical processes, gonopore subapical on spinate process, dorsal connective sinuate (Figs. 46 A–D).

Female genitalia. Valvulae I in lateral view sculptured in apical ¼ (Figs. 13 E–F). Valvulae II with basal teeth on dorsal margin, toothed on apical ¼ (Figs. 13 G–H).

Measurements. Male 6.5−6.7 mm long, 1.8 mm wide across eyes and 2.0 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Female 7.8−8.0 mm long, 2.1 mm wide across eyes and 2.5 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

M aterial examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Kerala: Nelliampathy, 12.v.2011, Piper nigrum, N. M. Meshram (NPC) . PARATYPES: INDIA: Karnataka: 2 ♀, Chettalli, 5.v.2011, Mercury vapour light, N. M. Meshram; Kerala: 1 ♂, Kanikhed, 10.v.2011, N. M. Meshram; Tamil Nadu: 1 ♂. 3 ♀, Mettupalayam, 10.v.2011, Calotropis gigantea, N. M. Meshram (NPC, UASB)

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Etymology. This species is named after one of its host plant genera, Piper .

Remarks. T. piperica sp. nov. resembles T. tripectinata but differs in having five subapical processes on the aedeagal shaft compared to three in the latter species. The gonoduct extends into the spinose subapical process of the aedeagal shaft and opens slightly before the distal end (Figs. 44 A–B). A similar situation is also found in Olidiana peniculata .