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

description: <i>Glyphidocera notae</i>, new species (Figs. 105–107, 322, Map 20) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera notae</i> is most similar to <i>G. lanae</i> but differs from the latter by having abdominal sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, and a broader valval cucullus. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale grayish­yellow scales to apical margin of segment II, inner surface pale grayish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape pale grayish brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale­brown scales; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a shallow 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 grayish brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale grayish brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres [some specimens with hindlegs pale brownish yellow with banding absent]. Forewing (Fig. 322): Length 6.5 –7.9 mm (n = 21), pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; cell with 2 large, brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end; one spot one CuP basal to midcell spot; marginal spots present or absent. Undersurface brown except, pale grayish­brown scales along costa. Hindwing: Pale gray intermixed sparsely with pale brownish­yellow scales. Abdomen (Fig. 105): Male with 3 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 106–107): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, narrow throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally, dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially, gradually widening at constriction, beneath base of uncus; costa of valva broadly sloped downwards from a shallow depression slightly beyond a slanted, basal digitate process to apical furca; furca falcate; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus sparsely denticulate, bearing a stout, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus slightly shortened on one side, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado Suroeste del Volcán Cacao, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, C. Chaves, 25 Set.– 11 Oct. 1990, L­N­ 323300, 375700 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 390173 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 934 ” [yellow label]. Paratypes (20 ɗ): 9 ɗ, Same label data as holotype except, “ CRI 000, 390180 ”, “Slide No. 935 ”; “ CRI 000, 590757 ”, “Slide No. 938 ”; “ CRI 000, 390188 ”, “Slide No. 942 ”; “ CRI 000, 390220 ”; “ CRI 000, 390356 ”; “ CRI 000, 390164 ”; “ CRI 000, 390218 ”; “ CRI 000, 577747 ”; “ CRI 000, 590634 ”; 2 ɗ, “ Set. 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 357390 ”, “Slide No. 949 ”; “ CRI 000, 357305 ”, “Slide No. 937 ”; 6 ɗ, “ Abr. 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 319517 ”, “Slide No. 933 ”; “ CRI 000, 319838 ”, “Slide No. 936 ”; “ CRI 000, 319437 ”; “ CRI 000, 328822 ”; “ CRI 000, 319697 ”; “ CRI 000, 319530 ”; “ 23 Oct.– 9 Nov. 1990 ”, “ CRI 000, 316216 ”, “Slide No. 944 ”; “ CRI 000, 316269 ”; “ CRI 000, 315887 ”, (11 in INBio, 9 in USNM). Distribution (Map 20): <i>Glyphidocera notae</i> is known from a single locality in northwestern Costa Rica along the Cordillera de Guanacaste. Etymology: The species epithet <i>notae</i> is derived from the Latin “nota,” meaning mark.
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 67-69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793