Tineovertex sartoria ( Meyrick, 1911 )

Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2011, A revision of the genus Tineovertex Moriuti (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 2991, pp. 1-12 : 6-7

Tineovertex sartoria ( Meyrick, 1911)

( Figs. 1 I–K, 3E)

Tinea sartoria Meyrick 1911: 120 (type locality: Khasi Hills, NE India). Tineovertex sartoria: Robinson & Tuck 1996: 10 ; Huang et al. 2007: 40.

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished easily from the closely related species T. melanochrysa by the following characters: uncus thumb-shaped, lobes narrowly separated basally, valva curved dorsally nearly vertical at basal 2/3; phallus with apex pointed.

Description. Forewing length 5.5–6.0 mm in male, 6.5–7.0 mm in female; antenna length about 6.5 mm in male, about 7.5 mm in female ( Figs. 1 I–J).

Male. Head. Vertex and frons black. Thorax. Dorsum and tegula black with posterior portions yellowish white. Forewing with apex gold-yellow, about 3.5–3.8 × as long as wide including fringe (about 3.3–3.6 × as long as wide excluding fringe); costa with a broad irregular black streak from base to near apex, dilated in middle reaching about 2/5 across wing; two distict yellowish white costal strigulae present near apex; a narrow and nearly straight black streak from dorsum basal 1/4 to apex, long creamy-white at termen. Hindwing brownish gray, 2.0–2.2 × as long as wide including fringe (3.8–4.0 × as long as wide excluding fringe). Abdomen. Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 E: left) with uncus lobes thumb-shaped with rounded apex, nearly 0.5 × length of valva, narrowly separated basally. Saccus slender throughout, about 1.8 × length of valva. Valva broad with rounded apex, L-shaped, curved dorsally nearly vertical at basal 2/3. Phallus stout with pointed apex, about 2.0 × length of valva, vesica with cornuti consisting of large masses of minute spines.

Female. Very similar to male. Female genitalia ( Fig. 3 E: right) with corpus bursae broad, bearing a pair of lanceolate signa. Entire corpus bursae nearly equal in length to apophysis anterioris.

Type material. Lectotype (in BMNH), male, ASSAM: Khasi Hills, 1907, leg. E. Meyrick, BM. 1938-290, with genitalia slide no. 32132 in BMNH.

Other material examined (in BMNH). 1 female, ASSAM: Khasi Hills., 1907, leg. L. Walsingham, BM. 1910-427 (det. G. Robinson, 2007), with genitalia slide no. 32133 in BMNH.

Bionomics. Seasonal occurrence: March, based on the original description.

Distribution. This species is known only from the type locality in northern India.

Remarks. The female is reported for the first time in this study.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Adults and labels of Tineovertex spp. A – B. “ Tinea melanochrysa Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Lectotype; C. Tineovertex melanochrysa (Meyrick, 1911), Female; D. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, Male, Holotype (also see Huang et al., 2007: Fig. 2 A); E. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, Female, Paratype (also see Huang et al., 2007: Fig. 2 A); F – G. “ Tinea canicoma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Lectotype;. H. Tineovertex thailandia sp. nov., Female, Holotype; I – J. “ Tinea sartoria Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Holotype; K. Tineovertex sartoria (Meyrick, 1911), Female; L. Tineovertex hamoides, sp. nov., Male, Holotype.

FIGURE 3. Genitalia of Tineovertex spp. A. “ Tinea melanochrysa Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; B. Tineovertex gladiata Huang, Hirowatari & Wang, 2007, (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); C. “ Tinea canicoma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; D. Tineovertex thailandia, sp. nov., Female, Holotype; E. “ Tinea sartoria Meyrick, 1911 ”, (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female); F. Tineovertex hamoides, sp. nov., Male, Holotype; G. “ Tinea melliflua Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; H. Tineovertex fibriformis, sp. nov., (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); I. Tineovertex expansa, sp. nov., (Left: Male, Holotype; Right: Female, Paratype); J. “ Tinea antidroma Meyrick, 1911 ”, Male, Paralectotype; K. Tineovertex elongata, sp. nov., Male, Holotype.