Sufetula minuta Muller, Hayden & Leger 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Müller, Anne
name: Hayden, James
name: Lees, David C.
name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Sufetula
Sufetula minuta

description: Sufetula minuta Müller, Hayden & Léger, sp. nov.
LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 66E6A5C3-6202-4762-AF7B-8724A 2E4872
(Figures 15, 28, 51)
Material examined. Holotype. ♀. PHILIPPINES: Samar, Borongan, San Mateo; 11.67 ǫN 125.35 ǫE; 40m; 26 Apr. 1997; W. Mey, W. Speidel leg.; DNA voucher MFNLEP967; genitalia slide MfN gen. prep. 396F; specimen voucher coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_c135d6 (MfN). Paratype. 2 Ƌ; specimen identifiers coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_065c76, 065c40; 1 ♀; specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_065b67; 1 unsexed; specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_752be2. Detailed information in Table S1.
Diagnosis. Sufetula minuta sp. nov. (Figure 15) is very small (forewing length ¼ 3.6 mm). The costal median spots are very small, flat semicircles accompanied with a dark brown streak. The female genitalia (Figure 51) are unmistakable because of the lack of a discrete signum, the looped and sclerotised ductus bursae, and the remarkably long papillae anales.
Description. Wings (Figure 15). Forewing length: 3.6 mm; narrow, ground colour cream, speckled with dark brown. Antemedian area dark brown. Antemedian line cream, jagged. Costa with three small cream median spots. Median area dark brown on basal half. Median discoidal spot oblong, dark brown. Postmedian line cream, basally edged with dark brown, slightly incurved from costa to medial veins, bent outwards toward marginal emargination, then markedly arched basad from M 3 to dorsum. Subterminal area dark brown. Margin cream. Fringes chequered cream and dark brown. Hindwing brown, medially with two broad cream bands, postmedian area with cream patches. Tympanal organs (Figure 28). ♀. Bullae tympani posterior fourth recessed. Venulae secundae faintly marked, running nearly straight down to tergite II anterior edge. Tympanic depression small, about 1/4 width of bulla, a welldemarcated saccus tympani. Male genitalia. Not known. Female genitalia (Figure 51). Posterior apophyses ca 3.1 × tergite VIII length. Anterior apophyses ca 2.5 × tergite VIII length. Colliculum tubular, weakly sclerotised, ca 1/5 × tergite VIII length. Ductus bursae ca 3.3 × corpus length, anterior 1/3 forming sclerotised loop. Corpus bursae globular, covered with acanthae, anterior half with V-shaped patch of densely packed acanthae, proper signum absent.
Distribution. Known from the Philippines (Palawan, Samar), at elevation between 40 and 390 m (Figure 55).
Etymology. From the Latin minutus, a, um, “short”, referring to the short size of the species.
DNA barcoding. A maximum intra-specific variation of 7.3% is observed between the specimen MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL11- E 07 from Palawan and the specimen MFNLEP967 from Samar.
description: Published as part of Müller, Anne, Hayden, James, Lees, David C. & Léger, Théo, 2025, Assessment of species diversity of the Lathrotelinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from the Philippines using morphology and DNA barcoding reveals eight new species, pp. 1-24 in Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity CLXVI (CLXVI) on page 20, DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2025.01.012, http://zenodo.org/record/15396126