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

description: <i>Glyphidocera gloriae</i>, new species (Figs. 258–260, 373, Map 47) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera gloriae</i>, <i>G. sollertiae</i>, and <i>G. coquae</i> share abdominal sex scales between terga 2–3 in the male, a densely setose gnathos, an angular dorsal furca of the valval costa, and an elongate apical cornutus of the aedeagus. The male genitalia of <i>G. gloriae</i> differs from those of <i>G. sollertiae</i> and <i>G. coquae</i> by having a dorsal strut of the tegumen with a more narrowed base, a smaller dorsal furca of the valval costa, and a more rounded apicoventral margin of the valval cucullus. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex brown tipped with pale brown; frontoclypeus brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales along apical margin of segment II; inner surface with segments I–II pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales, segment III brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale­brown scales; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of 4 th flagellomere; proboscis pale brownish yellow. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 373): Length 6.0– 6.5 mm (n = 2), brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas, with two brown spots, 1 large spot near middle, 1 smaller spot near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown. Abdomen (Fig. 258): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 259–260): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos densely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially near base of posteroventral margin, extending dorsally and slightly widening to base of uncus; costa of valva broadly emarginate medially from a shallow depression beyond a slightly curved, basal, digitate process to dorsal furca; apex bifurcate; dorsal furca upturned along basal 1 / 3, angled laterally, forming an aristate apex; furcae widely separate, about equal in lengths, parallel; sacculus twisted apically slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate, broadly rounded and distally protracted cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a large, sickle­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a large, hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “F[in]ca Cafrosa, 1300 m, Est[acion] Las Mellizas, P[arque] Internacional La Amistad, 1300 m, Prov[incia] Punt[arenas], COSTA RICA, M. Ramirez &amp; G. Mora, Oct. 1990, L­S­ 316100, 596100 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 355328 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 668 ” [yellow label]. Paratype 1 ɗ, “Est. Bijagual, 500 m, Res. Biol. Carara, Prov. S. Jose, COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Set. 1990, L­N­192250, 474760”, “ CRI 000, 299474 ”, “Slide No. 512.” Distribution (Map 47): <i>Glyphidocera gloriae</i> is know from south­central Costa Rica near the mouth of the Golfo de Nicoya, east to the Panamanian border south of the Cordillera de Talamanca. Etymology: The species epithet <i>gloriae</i> is derived from the Latin word “gloria” or glory
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 146-147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793