Torodora sogai Park & Koo & Minet & Razafindranaivo 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Koo, Jun-Mo
name: Minet, Joël
name: Razafindranaivo, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Torodora
Torodora sogai

description: 5. Torodora sogai Park & Koo, sp. nov.
(Fig. 7)
LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 234133BA-36E1-488B-89A0-5A10BED43587
Type specimen. Holotype: Male, [East Madagascar], [Integral] Natural Reserve no. 3 [Zahamena National Park], Andranomalaza, Ivelona valley, x [19]57, leg. P. Soga; gen. slide no. CIS-7369 (in MNHN). Paratypes: 2♁, same data as holotype; gen. slides nos. CIS-7368, -7382 (in MNHN).
Diagnosis. This new species is similar to the following new species, T. vietteiola sp. nov., but it can be distinguished by the following traits of its forewing venation: M 2 and M 3 nearly connate at base; CuA 1 and CuA 2 stalked for basal half (whereas, in T. vietteiola, M 2 is remote from M 3 proximally and CuA 1 and CuA 2 are stalked for basal 2/3). Moreover, the hind tibia has dark-brown rough scales before half and in distal 1/4 dorsally, whereas, in T. vietteiola, it has dark fuscous rough scales (Fig. 8D).
Description. Male (Figs. 7A–D). Wingspan, 14.0 mm. Head: brownish orange dorsally, with yellowish white, erect scales laterally. Antenna (broken away in distal part); scape elongated, pale orange all around; flagellum pale orange, without annulations. 2 nd segment of labial palpus thickened, arched, yellowish brown on outer surface; 3 rd segment slender, as long as 2 nd segment, slightly upturned. Thorax: tegula and thorax yellowish brown dorsally. Hind tibia with brownish orange rough scales before half and in distal 1/4 dorsally (Fig. 7D). Forewing ground color bronze brownish orange; antemedian fascia pale orange, followed by pale-orange suffusion in upper 1/3; costal patch small, wedge-shaped, pale orange; venation with R 1 arising from about 2/5 length of discal cell, nearly straight from base; distance between R 1 and R 2 at base about twice length of R 2 and R 3; R 3 stalked with R 4+5 for about basal 1/4; R 4 and R 5 stalked; R 5 termen; M 1 close to R 3+4 at base; M 2 and M 3 nearly connate, arising from lower corner of cell; CuA 1 and CuA 2 stalked for basal half; cell weakly closed; apex angulate; termen oblique. Hind wing ground color similar to that of the forewing; one vein absent, M 3 and CuA 1 being coincident; M 2 and M 3 +CuA 1 nearly connate; cell weakly closed. Abdomen (Fig. 7H): bronze brownish orange dorsally; spinose zones weakly developed anteriorly.
Male genitalia (Figs. 7E–G): Uncus bifurcate, with thumb-like latero-caudal processes directed outwardly, slightly going beyond caudal margin of basal plate of gnathos; apex rounded. Basal plate of gnathos broad, fanshaped with convex caudal margin; median process somewhat long, slightly bent apically. Tegumen weakly sclerotized. Valva broad at base; costa deeply concave; ventral margin emarginated before lower corner of cucullus; cucullus thumb-shaped, with rounded ventral margin, slightly upturned, densely setose; apex angulate. Juxta large, deeply concave on caudal margin; latero-caudal processes thumb-like. Aedeagus extremely stout, broader than base of valva, bifurcated in apical 1/4, with large fan-shaped ventral plate and dentate on dorsal surface; cornutus a large sac containing numerous minute conical spines.
Female unknown.
Distribution. Madagascar (eastern region).
Etymology. The species name is in honour of Pierre Soga who was a Malagasy forest ranger and famous insect collector.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Koo, Jun-Mo, Minet, Joël & Razafindranaivo, Victor, 2023, Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera) of Madagascar: I. Descriptions of eighteen new species of Torodora Meyrick, 1894, pp. 151-184 in Zootaxa 5264 (2) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7836316