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

description: <i>Glyphidocera asymmetricae</i>, new species (Figs. 3–5, 288, Map 1) Diagnosis.— The relationship of <i>G. asymmetricae</i> to its congeners is difficult to determine because of the extreme asymmetry of the male valvae. Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale­brown scales to apical margin of segment II, inner surface pale brown; scape of antenna brown, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and palebrown scales; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a wide and deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; proboscis brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Foreleg brown intermixed with pale­brown scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres, pterothoracic legs pale brown. Forewing (Fig. 288): Length 7.5 –8.0 mm (n = 2), brown intermixed with pale­brown scales; cell with 2 large, faint brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown. Abdomen (Fig. 3): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 4–5): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadened medially, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms fusing medially from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; valvae asymmetrical, right valva with apex of costa elongate, forming an upturned furca, about 1 / 4 length of valva; left valva with irregularly truncate, with a downturned apical process arising dorsally and a small toothlike process ventrally; apicoventral area beyond sacculus wider on left valva than on right valva; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva beyond midlength; digitate process on base of valva absent; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, with a moderately large, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] Queb[rada] Bonita, 50 m Res[erva] Biol[ógica] Carara, Prov[incia] Punt[arenas], COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Ago. 1990, L­N194500, 469850”, “ INBio, COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 181066 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No. 649 ” [yellow label]. Paratype (1 ɗ): “Est. Queb. Bonita, 50 m Res. Biol. Carara, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Jun 1991, L­N­194500, 469850”, “ CRI 000, 349044 ”, “Slide No. 647.” Distribution (Map 1): <i>Glyphidocera asymmetricae</i> is known from one coastal collecting site in southern Costa Rica along Río Tárcoles near the mouth of Golfo de Nicoya. Etymology: The species epithet <i>asymmetricae</i> is derived from the Greek “asymmetros,” meaning without symmetry, and refers to the asymmetry of the male genitalia.
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 page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793