Stenentoma sorindeiae Razowski & Brown, 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Razowski, Józef
name: Brown, John W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Stenentoma
Stenentoma sorindeiae

description: Stenentoma sorindeiae, sp. n.
Figs. 13, 27, 37
Diagnosis. Stenentoma sorindeiae is superficially most similar to S. bisecta (see Razowski and Krüger 2007: fig. 126), with a dark forewing ground color. The male genitalia of S. sorindeiae are most similar to those of S. chrysolampra, but in S. sorindeiae the top of the tegumen is pointed rather than rounded; the valva is entirely sclerotized and much broader basally; the neck of the valva is very slender and strongly curved; and the very short cucullus is somewhat elliptical.
Description. Male. Head: Vertex and upper portion of frons blackish, lower portion of frons whitish; labial palpus upcurved, white, length ca. 1.2 times horizontal diameter of compound eye. Thorax: Notum dark brown, with sparse whitish scales; tegula paler distally. Forewing length 4.1–4.5 mm (mean = 4.2; n = 4); costal fold absent; forewing slightly expanding distally; costa almost straight in basal 0.65, then gently arched to apex; apex rounded; termen weakly convex, with notch just before middle; ground color dark brown with fine gray lines and distinct refractive bluish lines; orange and yellow-orange spots in postmedian and terminal areas; three faint, white costal strigulae in distal 0.5, separated by blackish divisions; fringe gray, whiter at tornus. Hindwing black-brown, with narrow costal fold in basal 0.6; fringe white with blackish basal line. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 27) with tegumen long, attenuate to apical prominence at top; pedunculi long, very slender; valva broadest basally, tapering to termination of sacculus; neck short, very slender, strongly curved ventrad; cucullus rounded-triangular, mostly strongly sclerotized, with dense linear row of long spines along caudal edge; phallus long, slender, very weakly sclerotized, about 0.66 as long as valva, with distal 0.2 more narrow, apex flared dorsally, cornuti not evident.
Female. Head and thorax: Essentially as described for male; forewing length 3.9–4.5 mm (mean 4.3; n = 5); hindwing without costal fold, frenulum with three bristles. Abdomen: Segment VIII with pair of large, rounded-triangular, lightly sclerotized, lateral regions surrounded by longitudinal wrinkles. Genitalia (Fig. 37) with papillae anales unmodified; sterigma ill-defined; ductus bursae long, slender, slightly longer than corpus bursae; ductus seminalis originating postmedially; corpus bursae elongate-ovoid; signa a pair of slender blades, each from a rounded base.
Holotype (3): Kenya, Coast Province, Shimba Hills, 436 m, 4°14.27’S, 39°23.74’E, 8 Aug 2002, A&M Coll. #2092, r.f. Sorindeia madagascariensis [Anacardiaceae], GS USNM 95,904.
Paratypes (43, 28Ƥ). KENYA: COAST PROVINCE: Muhaka Forest, 52 m, 4°19.481’S, 39°31.413’E, 7 Feb 2003 (13, 16Ƥ), A&M Coll. #2481, r.f. Sorindeia madagascariensis; GS USNM 95913 (Ƥ), 124,6261 (3), 124,627 (Ƥ). Diani Forest, 32 m, 4°20.00’S, 39°34.012’E, 8 Dec 1999 (13, 5Ƥ), KIP Coll. #261, and 82 m, 4°20.02’S, 39°33.83’E, 3 Nov 1999 (13, 7Ƥ), A&M Coll. #331, r.f. Sorindeia madagascariensis. Arabuko Sokoke Forest, 82 m, 3°13.10’S, 39°55.87’E, 9 Jan 2000 (13), KIP Coll. #331, r.f. Strychnos madagascariensis [Loganiaceae].
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the generic name of the food plant.
description: Published as part of Razowski, Józef & Brown, John W., 2012, Descriptions of new Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) reared from native fruit in Kenya, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3222 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280255