Micraglossa kianganensis Léger, sp. n.

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Figs. 19, 76.

MATERIAL

Holotype: ♂ (specimen identifier MTD11400, DNA barcode BC MTD 01473, genitalia on slide TL1296♂; BOLD sample ID PYRG626-11). PHILIPPINES: Luzon, Ifugao, Kiangan, 750 m, 10/11/1985 (J. Settele). Deposited in MTD .

DIAGNOSIS

In male genitalia (Fig. 76), the slender and wavy gnathos lacks the subapical dorsal conical projection observed on the other congeneric species from the Philippines. Females are not known.

HABITUS

Forewing length 4 mm, ground color cream and brown. Antemedian band wavy, edged with cream lines. Median area with a mix of cream and brown scales. Postmedian line well marked, S-shaped, running straight down to CuA1, meeting subterminal line at half length, then bent inwardly with 90° angle, running straight towards base, then bent downwards towards dorsum. Subterminal line fuzzy, cream, medially incurved inwards. Margin cream. Fringe cream with brown spots. Hindwing light copper-color.

MALE GENITALIA

Uncus about 1.4 X tegumen arm length, regularly bent downwards, slender, with scattered setae dorsally, apex ventrally with short tooth pointing downwards. Gnathos projection about 0.9 X uncus length, slender, evenly curved downwards, distal 1/4 straightened, tip pointed downwards. Valva dorsal margin sclerotized, strongly concave; ventral margin basally straight, conspicuously curved upwards on distal half; apex broadly rounded. Juxta tongue-shaped. Phallus straight, vesica without cornuti.

FEMALE GENITALIA

Not known.

DISTRIBUTION

PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Ifugao). Collected at an altitude of 750 m.

ETYMOLOGY

Name derived from Kiangan, the locality where the specimen was caught.