Brachylia maputo Yakovlev & László, 2020

Yakovlev, Roman V., László, Gyula M. & Vetina, Alvaro A., 2020, Contribution to the knowledge of the Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) of the Maputo Special Reserve in South Mozambique with description of two new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 28, pp. 40-52 : 43-45

Brachylia maputo Yakovlev & László sp. n.

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Material. Holotype: male, Mozambique, Maputo Special Reserve, West Gate (Sand Thicket), 22 m, 26°30’14.2”S, 32°42’59.6”E, 21−30.xi.2016, Light Trap, Aristophanous, M., Cristovao, J., László, G., Miles, W. leg., ANHRT:2017.22, ANHRTUK 00011141, Gen. slide No.: ANHRT 00071 ( ANHRT).

Diagnosis. The new species resembles externally B. terebroides , but differs from it by its much lighter coloration, longer uncus, more straight and narrower transtilla processes, and almost straight phallus that is strongly curved in B. terebroides .

Description. Male. Length of forewing 14 mm. Antennae bipectinate, rather long, equal in length to 3/5 of fore wing costal margin, crest rami three times longer than antenna rod diameter. Tegulae pale brown. Head and abdomen densely covered with pale grey scales. Forewing wide, apically rounded, pale grey with thin blackish undulated transverse lines in submarginal, postdiscal and discal areas; pale brown spot in discal area blurred; fringe pale brownish grey, unicolorous. Hind wing pale grey with a more or less parallel series of poorly visible undulated thin greyish lines.

Male genitalia. Uncus robust, triangle, apically rounded, relatively short; gnathos arms thick, long; gnathos robust, densely covered with tiny spines; valva membranous distally with a small crest with pointed pronglike process on costal margin at the transition between the sclerotized and membranous areas of valva; transtilla process long, thin, medially curved, apically pointed; juxta robust, with large, widely diverged lateral processes; saccus semicircular, robust; phallus almost straight, somewhat shorter than length of valva, thick, apex obliquely cut, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, equal to ¼ of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The new species is named after the capital of Mozambique.

Remark. Mey (2016, 2017) revised the genus Brachylia Felder, 1874 (type species, by monotypy − Brachylia terebroides Felder, 1874 ), describing seven new species from South Africa, and also provided diagnoses of the previously known species.

List of species

Figures

Figures 3−10. Сossidae, adults (all from ANHRT): 3. Afrikanetz smithi Yakovlev & László sp. n., holotype, dorsal; 4. Afrikanetz smithi Yakovlev & László sp. n., holotype, ventral; 5. Brachylia maputo Yakovlev & László sp. n., holotype, dorsal; 6. Brachylia maputo Yakovlev & László sp. n., holotype, ventral; 7. Azygophleps asylas (Cramer, 1779), ♂; 8. Azygophleps inclusa (Walker, 1856), ♂; 9. Azygophleps leopardina Distant, 1902, ♂; 10. Phragmataecia irrorata Hampson, 1910, ♂.

Figures 15−16. Сossidae, male genitalia: 15. Afrikanetz smithi Yakovlev & László sp. n., Holotype (ANHRT Gen. Slide: 00070); 16. Brachylia maputo Yakovlev & László sp. n., Holotype (ANHRT Gen. Slide: 00071).