Rhotana gressittorum Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 90

Rhotana gressittorum Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length: male 4.6–5.0 mm (mean = 4.8, n= 5), female about 5.3 mm. Colour stramineous to light brown. Forewings glassy, faintly yellowish near margins, middle hyaline; the basal sections of Cu1, M, Ms1a, Ms1b, Ms2, and Ms3 lined with narrow bands of infuscation; seven brown-black round marks near hind margin, six of them arranged in pairs; veins stramineous to brown. Hindwings colourless. Facial carinae contiguous at their bases; rostrum slightly surpassing hind coxae; subantennal processes and lateral carinae of pronotum well developed. Forewings with apical section of Sc nearly straight; Sc+R fork before middle of wings; Ms1 branched at its basal quarter, Ms1b angulated at junction with apical cross-vein with Cu1; a small trapezoid cell at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles widening towards the end. Aedeagus with stem elongated, slightly widening before apical part; apical part flat, on the right side an elongated lobe, not reaching the tip.

Etymology. The species is named for J. Linsey Gressitt and his wife Margaret, who made outstanding contributions to the knowledge of the Pacific insect fauna and collected this and many other species described here. The name ' gressittorum ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case plural.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.8 mm), AUSTRALIA; labels: 1) AUSTRALIA: SE Qld. / Mt. Glorious / Rain Forest / 13–16.II.1961 2) L. & M. Gressitt / Collectors / BISHOP Mus. 3) Malaise Trap ( BPBM) . Paratypes: AUSTRALIA: same date as holotype, 2 ♂ (fw. 2x4.6) 2 ♀ (fw. 2x5.3) ( BPBM); NSW, Barren Ground N. R ., near Kiama , 1 ♂ (fw. 4.8), 8.II.1981, B.J. Loudon; NSW, Kanagara Walls, Jenolau area , SW of Sydney , 1 ♂ (fw. 5.0), 27.VIII.1962, B. Gray (all ASCU) .

Distribution. Australia (Queensland and New South Wales).

Diagnosis. Rhotana gressittorum is characterized by the forewings having narrow bands of infuscation accompanying parts of the median veins and Cu1, and by the forewing marks not separated by red veins or a red band.