New and little known Brachodidae from tropical Asia and Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea)
Author
Kallies, Axel
text
Zootaxa
2013
3641
3
241
259
journal article
43635
10.11646/zootaxa.3641.3.4
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1175-5326
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Nigilgia
sp.
(
Figs 26
,
36
)
Material examined.
1Ƥ, [
Indonesia
, West
Papua
] “New
Guinea
(NW),
100m
,
11km
SE of Oeberfaren,
10–17. VII. 1959
/ M. V. Light Trap / T.C. Maa collector, BISHOP” (USNM).
This specimen represents an unnamed species. It is similar to
N. atribractea
sp. nov.
but larger (alar expanse
18 mm
) with a bright white fringe of the hindwings. Furthermore it differs by the color of the forewing scales, which have a white spot at distal end (in the centre of the scale in
N. atribractea
sp. nov.
). This species has a very characteristic genitalia morphology that places it close to
Nigilgia diehli
Kallies, 2000
from Sumatra. The female genitalia (Gen. Prep. AK28,
Fig. 36
) show a ductus bursae that gradually widens towards the bursa, a bursa with a rough, tongue-shaped area near the entrance of the ductus and two signa (a small irregular structure and a larger disc-like structure). Due to its unresolved relationship to the Australian species of
Nigilgia
, which are currently under revision, this species is not described herein.