Saccharodite media Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 170

Saccharodite media Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length: male about 2.5 mm, female about 2.9 mm. Colour stramineous; carinae in front of eyes, tip of clypeus, and mesonotum pale brown. Forewings slightly powdered; very faintly infuscated from clavus tip to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2 and Sc+R fork, as well as along apical crossveins; a spot of darker infuscation at M-Ms3 fork, here M dark brown; remaining veins stramineous, but short sections of Sc, R, M, and hind margin tinted with orange; 3 sections on costal margin red; a dark spot on base of Sc+R. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face slightly angulated; subantennal processes well separated from margins of facial carinae; rostrum surpassing post trochanter. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly before middle of wing; basal median cell as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; Ms1 unbranched (or Ms1b completely fused with Cu1). Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short, slender; distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus short, with a dorsal impression, extending into a membranous terminal lobe.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (medius, -a, -um = in the middle).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 2.5 mm), INDONESIA: PAPUA; labels: 1) NEW GUINEA: NETH ./ Waris, S. of/ Hollandia, 450–500m / VIII-1–7-1959 2) At Light 3) T . C. Maa / Collector / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratype. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NE, May Riv. , 100m, 8. VI .1963, 1 ♀ (fw. 2.9), R . Straatman ( BPBM) .

Distribution. Island of New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite media resembles Sa. nanus sp. nov., also from New Guinea, in structure and coloration. However, it lacks a red mark on the abdominal tergites and the forewings have fainter infuscation and a dark spot near the M-Ms3 fork.