Nyctiophylax (Nyctiophylax) catunujah, Oláh & Johanson, 2010

Oláh, János & Johanson, Kjell Arne, 2010, Generic review of Polycentropodidae with description of 32 new species and 19 new species records from the Oriental, Australian and Afrotropical Biogeographical Regions 2435, Zootaxa 2435 (1), pp. 1-63 : 42-43

Nyctiophylax (Nyctiophylax) catunujah , new species

Figures 69–71

Diagnosis: This species resembles N. (P.) archemoros Malicky from Thailand, and N. (P.) antenor Malicky from Nepal. It differs from these species in having large rectangular cerci and straight, not curving, ventral paraproctal processes, each with a slightly hooked or knotted apex.

Description: Male. Body uniformly brown. Maxillary palp formula (I,II)-IV-III-V. Forewing length 6.4 mm. Forewings each with median cell open.

Male genitalia. Sternite IX rounded and pentagonal in lateral view ( Fig. 69 ); tergite IX fused with paraprocts. Segment X weakly sclerotized, in dorsal view deeply incised into large, quadrangular dorsal interlobular gap with short, irregular, median lobe and long, rod-like lateral lobes; lateral lobes narrow, scarcely setose. Cerci large, quadrangular ( Fig. 69 ), setose; arising from complex of tergite IX and paraproct. Paraproctal complexes each consisting of basal body and ventral paraproctal process; smooth, heavily sclerotized, straight with slightly hooked apex. Gonopods robust, each with basal expansion well-developed, representing ventral branch; dorsal branch straight in lateral and ventral views ( Figs. 69, 70 ), with dorsoapical incision in lateral view. Phallic apparatus ( Fig. 71 ) located dorsally in genitalia, guided by ventral paraproctal processes. Phallic apparatus with tube-like, faintly sclerotized phallotheca continuing into membranous endotheca or endophallus, with pair of long, arching, spines (possibly parameres) arising from phallobase.

Holotype male: MYANMAR: North East , Kambaiti, 7000 ft, 30.iv.1934, Malaise trap, [R. Malaise]— ( BMNH).

Distribution: Myanmar.

Etymology: Catunujah, quadrangular in Sanscrit, after the quadrangular cerci.

Remarks: Nyctiophylax (P.) archemoros was placed into subgenus Paranyctiophylax because it has looped anal veins in the forewing. Nyctiophylax (Nyctiophylax) catunuyah , new species, has very similar genitalia but the forewing anal veins are not looped.

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FIGURES 69–71. Nyctiophylax (Nyctiophylax) catunujah, new species, holotype. 69—genitalia, left lateral; 70— genitalia, ventral; 71—phallic apparatus, left lateral.