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

description: <i>Glyphidocera crepidae</i>, new species (Figs. 222–224, 361, Map 41) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera crepidae</i> is most similar to <i>G. harenae</i> but differs from the latter by having an abdomen with fewer rows of sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, an incomplete dorsal strut of tegumen, a shorter valva, costal furcae of valva not parallel [ventral furca apically upturned abruptly], and vesica of aedeagus with many spinelike cornuti. Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown intermixed with few palebrown scales; labial palpus with outer surface of segments brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margin on segments I–II, segment III brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales; inner surface as above except with more pale brownish­yellow scales on segments I–II; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale brownish­yellow scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale brown scales; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep 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 brownish yellow. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs with segments brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales, tarsomeres brown with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margin. Forewing (Fig. 361): Length 5.1 mm (n = 1), brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales; cell with 3 brown spots, 1 spot near middle, 2 spots slightly coalescent, at distal end parallel with crossvein; marginal spots brown. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown. Abdomen (Fig. 222): Male with 2 transverse rows of sex scales on intersegmental area between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 223–224): Uncus elongate, wide at base, slightly constricted above, parallelsided apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos densely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from posteroventral margin to 1 / 3 length, dorsally atrophied; valva with costa slightly sloped dorsally from a shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, inner margin U­shaped; dorsal furca falcate, ventral furca abruptly angled apically, slightly broader than dorsal furca; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva at midlength, forming a ventrally protracted cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many moderately elongate, spinelike cornuti, and bearing a large, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva, 50–150 m, 10 ° 26 'N, 84 °01'W, June 1994, INBio­OET”, “ 28 Junio 1994, Bosque secundario, L/06/ 107 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 001, 243975 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 904 ” [yellow label]. Distribution (Map 41): <i>Glyphidocera crepidae</i> is known from one collecting site in east­central Heredia in northern Costa Rica. Etymology: The species epithet <i>crepidae</i> is derived from the Latin “crepida,” meaning slipper.
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 128-129, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793