Costasensora honeyi Fibiger, 2010

FIBIGER, MICHAEL, 2010, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae, Zootaxa 2583 (1), pp. 1-119 : 53-54

Costasensora honeyi Fibiger , new species

( Plate 6 , figure 8; male genit. plate 16, figure 4)

Material examined. Holotype: male, Malaysia, Sarawak, Gunong Mulu Nat. Park , site 25. -. iv.1977, 427550, 900 m, leg. R. G.S. Exped. 1977-78, J.D. Holloway et al., BM 1978-206 , genit. prep. 3205 M. Fibiger, coll. BMNH.

Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 11 mm.

Labial palps: porrect; second segment brown outside, white beige inside, roughly scaled vertically; third segment 1/3 of second, narrow, white beige.

Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, costal part of medial area, and terminal area, including fringes: black; costal medial area quadrangular.

Forewing ground colour: whitish yellow.

Abdomen: grey; with dorsal tuft on basal segment.

Crosslines: untraceable, except for terminal line marked by black interneural dots.

Reniform stigma: indistinct, small, white.

Hindwing: grey, with indistinct discal spot.

Underside: forewing grey brown; hindwing grey, with discal spot.

Male genitalia. Tegumen: extremely short snd stout, curved in semicircle; peniculus curved (apo.).

Vinculum: extremely stout, very broad; together with saccus and juxta circular; asymmetrical (apo.).

Saccus: extremely stout; broad; V shaped; with a medial crest to ventral tip (apo.).

Valvae: asymmetrical; broadest apically (apo.).

Editum : as long as valva; semi-cylindrical; setose, parallel with costa; attached to valva along vinculum, base of costa, and along ventral edge of valva (apo.).

Clasper: an extension of ventral margin of valva (apo.).

Digitus: commalike; positioned along apical part of costa; broadest apically (apo.).

Juxta: large, with medial crest; left part apically quadrangular; right part apically pointed (apo.).

Anellus plate: prominently asymmetrical; structure free from diaphragm; basally with lateral hornlike processes; distally very long, spatulate; with subapical crest; with rounded apical extensions (apo.).

Phallus: extremely long, narrow and curved; coecum 3 times longer than wide, apically rounded; broadest at ductus ejaculatorius; pointed at tip (apo.).

Vesica: armed with a small, narrow, spikelike cornutus (apo.).

Female genitalia. Unknown. [presumably with an extremely long and narrow, heavily sclerotised antrum, - see following genus}.

Distribution. C. honeyi known only from Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak.

Figures

PLATE 6. Figures 1–8. Fustis, Bruma, Costasensora, and Longiantrum species, adults. 1, F. sensora, male, Thailand N, Chiang Mai; 2, F. biextuta, male holotype, Thailand, Tham Sakoe Nat P.; 3, F. extuta, male holotype, Thailand, Mae Hong Son; 4, F. gregerseni, male holotype, Thailand W, Uthai Thani; 5, F. s-forma, male holotype, Thailand NE, Ban Nam Lee Pattana; 6, F. papei, female holotype, Thailand, Nakhon Nayok; 7, Bruma parvus, male holotype, Indonesia, North Sumatra; 8, Costasensora honeyi, male holotype, Malaysia, Sarawak.