Saccharodite obrieni Zelazny, 2011

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

Saccharodite obrieni Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length: male 3.8–4.0 mm, female 3.2–3.8. Colour stramineous; a small orange-red stripe above eyes; margins of facial carinae in front of eyes light orange-brown; fore tibiae and tarsi tinted with red; middle femora with a red stripe; hind femora with a red mark near apex; apical part of abdomen light brown. Forewings glassy; lightly infuscated from hind margin around clavus tip to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; veins stramineous to faintly orange-brown; last subcostal sector and adjoining part of costa orange; base of Sc+R with four dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face angulated; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae by a low ridge; 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 triangle at base of Sc+R. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process long. Stem of aedeagus with two small, dorsal projections near junction with apical portion; apical part very small, nearly globular.

Etymology. The species is named for the collector and ' obrieni ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.8 mm), SOLOMON ISLANDS; labels: 1) SOLOMON IS./ Santa Ysabel/ Kolotuve, light/ Trap, 20. VI.'60 2) C.W. O'Brien / Collector ( BPBM) . Paratypes. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Santa Ysabel: SE, Tatamba , 0–50m, 1.IX.1964, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.2), Malaise trap, R . Straatman; Buala , 24.VIII.1964, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.8), light trap, Straatman ; Choiseul I., Malangona , 8. III .1964, 1 ♂, light trap, P. Shanahan; Guadalcanal, Suta , 500–1200 m, 27. VI .1956, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.0), Gressitt; San Jorge , 26.IX.1965, 2 ♂, Casuarina forest, vac. Collector (all BPBM) .

Distribution. Solomon Islands.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite obrieni shows similarities to Sa. montana sp. nov., Sa. minuscula sp. nov. and Sa. picta sp. nov., all three from New Guinea. It can be distinguished from these by the stramineous mesonotum and scutellum, and by the very small, globular apical part of the male aedeagus.