Saccharodite aculeata Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 141

Saccharodite aculeata Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings elongated, 2.2 times longer than wide, length in male 3.6–3.8 mm. Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae light orange-brown; faint orange marks on base of clypeus and scutellum (in one paratype mesonotum faintly orange); joints between hind femora and tibiae orange; abdomen partly or completely orange (in holotype only anterior margin of pygofer orange). Forewings colourless; base of Sc+R without dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; rostrum reaching post trochanter; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae. 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 small triangle at base of Ms1; tips of Cu1 and Ms1b separated. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated; proximal dorsal process short; distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus with three slender and pointed processes, one at the tip, pointing forward, and two originating from the junction of apical part and stem and directed caudo-dorsad.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (aculeatus, -a, -um = spiny).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.8mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Tawau, Quoin Hill / 8–14.VII.1962 2) H. Holtmann / Light Trap / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Sandakan , 1 ♂ (fw. 3.6); same data as holotype, 15– 20. VII .1962, 1 ♂ (all BPBM) .

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite aculeata resembles Sa. ignea sp. nov., also from Borneo, in forewing venation and structure of the male aedeagus. It can be separate from that species by its stramineous to faintly orange coloration.