Saccharodite lugubris Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 139

Saccharodite lugubris Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length in male about 4.3 mm. Colour light brown; frons, facial carinae, and some marks on head, thoracic pleura, and coxae orange to orange-red; abdomen orange-brown, but genitalia stramineous. Forewings dark brown with small light patches; veins dark orange-red; four dark spots on base of Sc+R. Hindwings infuscated; veins orange-brown. In profile junction of vertex and face angulated; subantennal process connected to margins of facial carinae; rostrum reaching post trochanters. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell nearly twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small trapezoid cell at base of Ms1; tips of Cu1 and Ms1b separated (left forewing of holotype, but not, right one with supernumeral subcostal sector, see Fig. 284f). Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles broad; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus slightly curved, with a dorsal, longitudinal groove, and a dorsal pointed lobe on the right side.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective ( lugubris , -is, -e = mourning).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.3 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Mt. Kinabalu , Kam-/baranga, 2140 m / x-22–30-1958 2) T. C. Maa / Collector / BISHOP ( BPBM).

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite lugubris can be easily recognized by its brown and orange coloration of body and forewings and by the face having an angulated profile. It shows some similarities to Sa. rufa sp. nov., also from Borneo, which, however, has a less infuscated and more red coloration, as well as a different structure of the male aedeagus.