Glyphidocera paenulae ADAMSKI, 2005, new species
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera paenulae

description: <i>Glyphidocera paenulae</i>, new species (Figs. 12–14, 291, Map 2) Diagnosis.— Relationships between <i>Glyphidocera paenulae</i> and other species of <i>Glyphidocera</i> are difficult to determine because of the several unique features possessed by the former that include a short digitate process of the valva, a toothlike process on the distal 1 / 3 of valva, an angular distal part of valva, and large sex scales between abdominal terga 2– 3 and terga 3–4 in the male. Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale grayish orange; outer margin of labial palpus pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales, inner surface as above but paler; scape of antenna pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale grayish­orange and brown scales; male 4 th flagellomere not protuberant, 5 th and 6 th flagellomeres slightly excavated; proboscis pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales. Legs with all segments pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales, tarsomeres dark brown intermixed with pale grayish­orange scales to apical margins. Forewing (Fig. 291): Length 7.2–7.5 mm (n = 2), pale grayish orange intermixed with few dark­brown scales, with several small, dark­brown spots; 1 on base of costa, 2 on base near middle of cell between Radius and Cubitus, 2 near distal end of cell near to and parallel with crossvein, and 4 marginal spots. Undersurface pale grayish orange. Hindwing: Pale grayish brown basally, gradually darkening to apex. Abdomen (Fig. 12): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of large sex scales on intersegmental areas between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Male Genitalia (Figs. 13–14): Uncus elongate, wide, slightly constricted beyond base, parallelsided to a slightly rounded apex; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, apex rounded and upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially, narrow throughout length and extending dorsally from posteroventral margin to the base of uncus; costa of valva gradually downturned broadly from a shallow depression slightly beyond a stout digitate process to a slightly rounded apex; costa with a recurrent, toothlike process near 2 / 3 length; sacculus twisted apically, constructing valva narrowly, widening distoventrally, forming an angular cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a slanted outer margin; vesica of aedeagus with an elongate apical cornutus and several small, thin cornuti. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Heredia: Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva, 50–150 m 10 ° 26 'N, 84 °01'W, Apr. 1996, INBio­OET”, “ 10 Abril 1996, L/00/ 211, CES 350 m ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 002, 057137” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 911 ” [yellow label]. Paratype: 1 ɗ, Same label data as above except, “ 15 Abril 1996, L/05/ 214 ”, “ CRI 002, 060221 ”, “Slide No. 917.” Distribution (Map 2): <i>Glyphidocera paenulae</i> is known from a single collecting site in north­central Costa Rica. Etymology: The species epithet <i>paenulae</i> is derived from the Latin “paenula,” meaning a traveling cloak.
description: Published as part of <i>DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), pp. 1-158 in Zootaxa 858</i> on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793