Glyphidocera illiterata Meyrick 1929
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera illiterata

description: <i>Glyphidocera illiterata</i> Meyrick, 1929 (Figs. 150–152, 281, 337, Map 27) <i>Glyphidocera illiterata</i> Meyrick, 1929: 509; Becker, 1984: 41 (checklist). Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera illiterata</i> can be distinguished from its congeners by a unique combination of features that include a short valva, a stout digitate process of the valva, costal furcae of valva widely separate, and dorsal furca of costa about midway between digitate process of valva and ventral furca. Description.— Head: Vertex dark brown; frontoclypeus dark brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales; outer surface of labial palpus dark brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales to near apical margin of segment II, inner margin dark brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales; scape of antenna dark brown intermixed with few palebrown scales, flagellum dark brown; male with 4 th flagellum dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; proboscis dark brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum dark brown. Legs dark brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales to near apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 337): Length 5.2 –7.0 mm (n = 15), dark brown intermixed with few brown and pale­brown scales; cell with one large, dark­brown spot near distal end. Undersurface dark brown. Hindwing: Pale brown basally, gradually darkening to brown towards apex. Abdomen (Fig. 150): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Male Genitalia (Figs. 151–152): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted medially, broadly rounded apically, slightly keeled dorsally, apex narrowly rounded; gnathos protuberant, narrow throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing near midlength between posteroventral margin and base of uncus, dorsally divergent slightly and atrophied; costa of valva short, slightly sloped broadly from a shallow depression beyond a short, digitate process to dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, distance between furcae about as long as costa; dorsal furca curved outwardly, ventral furca twice as large as dorsal furca, and curved dorsolaterally; sacculus twisted apically slightly beyond midlength, constricting valva, widening distoventrally forming a broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many stout, conical cornuti, and bearing a large crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia (Fig. 281): Papillae anales elongate, slightly wider basally than apically; apophysis posterioris and apophysis anterioris about equal in size; eighth sternum slightly narrower than eighth tergum; eighth sternum with posterior and anterior margins broadly rounded, anterior margin more emarginate medially; eighth tergum with posterior and anterior margins broadly rounded; antrum enlarged posteriorly from a constricted anterior part; posterior margin nearly straight, posterolateral margin angular; anterior part with a pair of short, spinelike processes inside cavity formed from outer wall; ductus bursae short; corpus bursae denticulate, slightly enlarged anteriorly; ductus bursae large, coiled throughout length, coils gradually decreasing in size apically; ductus seminalis with a long, 8 ­coiled, internal support; side opposite ductus seminalis with an elongate, platelike, internal support. Type Examined: Holotype, ɗ, “Balboa, Panama, Canal Zone, at light, 19.6.[19] 24, St. George Expedn., C.L. Collenette.” “BM Slide No. 5645.” [BMNH]. Other Specimens examined: (11 ɗ, 4 Ψ) 1 ɗ, “Est[ación] Las Pailas, 800 m, P[arque] N[acional] Rincón de la Vieja, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, 24 Nov. a 26 Ene. 1993, J. Sihezar, G. Rodriguez, L­N­ 306300, 388600 ”, “ CRI 001, 211921 ”, “ɗ Slide No. 495 ”; 1 ɗ, “ 23 Oct. a 12 Nov. 1992, C. Cano”, “ CRI 000, 920403 ”, “Slide No. 500 ”; 1 ɗ, 1 Ψ, “Agua Buena, P. N. Guanacaste, Prov. Guana., COSTA RICA, 200 m, 7–12 Feb. 1994, E. Lopez, L­N­ 334800, 364100, 2692”, “ CRI 001, 747346 ”, “Ψ Slide No. 496 ”; “ CRI 001, 747377 ”, “Slide No. 494 ”; 1 ɗ, “Quepos, 80 m, P. N. Manuel Antonio, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Abr. 1991, L­S­ 370900, 448800 ”, “ CRI 000, 593398 ”, “Slide No. 618 ”; 1 ɗ, 2 Ψ, “Fca. Cafrosa, 1300 m, Est. las Mellizas, P. N. Amistad, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, M. Ramirez, Mar 1991, L­S­ 316100, 596100 ”, “ CRI 000, 355262 ”, “Slide No. 682 ”; “ CRI 000, 355393 ”, “Ψ Slide No. 684 ”; “ CRI 000, 355278 ”, “Ψ Slide No. 685 ”; 5 ɗ, 1 Ψ, Same label data as above except, “Abr.”, “ CRI 000, 475034 ”, “Slide No. 683 ”; 1 ɗ, “ CRI 000, 474676 ”; 1 ɗ, “ CRI 000, 474630 ”; 1 ɗ, “ CRI 000, 475017 ”; 1 ɗ, “ CRI 000, 475106 ”; 1 ɗ, “ CRI 000, 474553 ”; 1 ɗ, Same label data as above except, “ June 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 663689 ”, (7 in INBio, 7 in USNM). Distribution (Map 27): In Costa Rica, <i>Glyphidocera illiterata</i> is known from four collecting sites from the northwestern part of the country, along the Cordillera de Guanacaste, southeast to the coast in south­central Costa Rica, east to the border near Panamá, along the Cordillera de Talamanca. <i>G. illiterata</i> is also known in Panamá from specimens described by Meyrick (1929).
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 89-90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793
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