Neaspasia brevisecta ( Meyrick, 1930 )

Aarvik, Leif & Agassiz, David J. L., 2014, Revision of African Neaspasia Diakonoff, 1989 and the related Conaspasia, n. gen. (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), Zootaxa 3754 (2), pp. 117-132 : 123

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scientific name	Neaspasia brevisecta ( Meyrick, 1930 )
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Neaspasia brevisecta ( Meyrick, 1930) View in CoL , comb. n.

( Figs. 9 View FIGURES 2 – 9 , 17, 18 View FIGURES 15 – 20 , 25 View FIGURES 21 – 26 )

Argyroploce brevisecta Meyrick, 1930: 601 View in CoL .

Olethreutes brevisecta, Clarke 1958: 488 , pl. 243, figs. 2, 2a. Streblopotamia brevisecta, Razowski & Wojtusiak 2012: 77 , fig. 18.

Material examined. Holotype ♂ of Argyroploce brevisecta Meyrick ; BENIN: Agouë, 1884, Abbé Ménager, genitalia slide J.F. Gates Clarke 7061 ( BMNH).

IVORY COAST: 1♂ ca. 5 km S Nambonkaha, NNE Ferkéssedougou, 9°41’N 5°11’W, 30.vii.1997, L[icht]F[ang] 25 W HQL, T. Karisch, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2013.030 ( MNVD); 1♂ 20 km E Bouaflé, Titekro loc. 6, 4.i.1984, at light, R.T.A. Schouten & J.R.M. Buijsen, genitalia slide L. Aarvik 2013.032 ( RMNH).

Redescription. Male ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 2 – 9 ). Head: Cream, neck tufts grey. Antenna dark grey, scape dirty white. Labial palpus ca. 1.7 times diameter of eye, cream; third segment drooping, nearly concealed by scaling of second segment. Thorax: Blackish brown. Legs light grey, tibiae and tarsi dark grey externally, light rings on tarsi, pencil of hind tibia pale ochreous. Wingspan 12–13 mm. Basal third of forewing blackish brown, external third cream, with light brown suffusion in middle of wing and in costal and terminal areas, grey suffusion present at apex, tornus and along termen, cilia grey; underside brownish grey, whitish along dorsal edge. Hindwing dark brownish grey. Cilia grey at apex, becoming whitish towards anal edge, from below apex cilia consist of rhopaloid scales. Hindwing underside with whitish patch along anal edge. Abdomen: Grey, anal tuft beige. Genitalia ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 21 – 26 ) with cucullus of valva with several strong teeth along ventral edge, ventral lobe without single conspicuous tooth¸ group of spines between caudal edge of sacculus and basal excavation smaller than in other species.

Female. Unknown.

Diagnosis. The male of N. brevisecta differs from that of other Neaspasia by the dark hindwing with white rhopaloid scales along the dorsal edge. In the male genitalia the small group of spines on the sacculus is diagnostic.

Distribution. This species is known from Benin (holotype), Nigeria ( Razowski & Wojtusiak 2012), and Ivory Coast.

References

Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. I II. Tortricidae, Olethreutidae, Noctuidae, 600 pp.

Meyrick, E. (1930) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Nature, 3 (19), 577 - 608.

Razowski, J. & Wojtusiak, J. (2012) Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Nigeria. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 55 (2), 59 - 130. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3409 / azc. 55 _ 2.59

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 9. Adults of Neaspasia. 2 – 5. N. orthacta (Meyrick). 2. Male from Kenya: Gilgil. 3. Male from Tanzania: Morogoro. 4. Female from Rep. South Africa: Gauteng. 5. Female from Kenya: Gilgil. 6. N. coronana n. sp. Paratype male. 7. N. karischi n. sp. Holotype male. 8. N. malamigambo n. sp. Paratype male. 9. N. brevisecta (Meyrick). Male from Ivory Coast: nr. Bouaflé. Scale 10 mm.

FIGURES 15 – 20. Type material. 15. Holotype female of Argyroploce orthacta Meyrick. 16. Labels of holotype of A. orthacta. 17. Holotype male of Argyroploce brevisecta Meyrick. 18. Labels of holotype of A. brevisecta. 19. Holotype female of Penthina brevibasana Walsingham. 20. Labels of holotype of P. brevibasana.

FIGURES 21 – 26. Male genitalia of Neaspasia. 21. N. orthacta (Meyrick) (slide L. Aarvik 2012.010). 22. N. coronana n. sp. (slide L. Aarvik 2738). 23. N. karischi n. sp. (slide L. Aarvik 2013.017). 24. N. malamigambo n. sp. (slide NHMO 2303). 25. N. brevisecta (Meyrick) (slide L. Aarvik 2013.030). 26. N. brevibasana (Walsingham) (slide L. Aarvik 2012.011). Scale 1 mm.