Scoparia masiita Leger 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia masiita

description: Scoparia masiita Léger, sp. n.
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Figs. 07, 63, 124.
MATERIAL
Holotype: ♂ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_dfb222, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-B05, genitalia on slide TL1039♂; BOLD sample ID PYPHI082-21, Genbank Accession Number PP196823). PHILIPPINES: Panay, Antique, San Reminigio, Aningalan, 09-10.04.1995 (W. Mey). Deposited in MfN.
Paratypes: 2 ♀ (specimen identifiers coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_c39589, cdeb6d) (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
DIAGNOSIS
Scoparia masiita sp. n. exhibits slender forewings devoid of any conspicuous markings (Fig. 07). In male genitalia (Fig. 63), the strongly protruding ventral process of the valva as well as the six cornuti of increasing length separates this species from its congeners. In female genitalia (Fig. 125), the pouch covered with sclerotized teeth at the base of ductus bursae is unique to this species.
HABITUS (FIG. 07)
Forewing length 5-7 mm (n = 3); ground color dark brown, markings dirty white. Antemedian area white, scattered with few brown scales. Median area with broad transverse band running from costal half to dorsal 3/4. Postmedian area with two white bands crossing in the middle, forming a broad X-shaped pattern. Subterminal area with subtriangular patch medially. Margin dirty white, basal edge dentate. Fringe chequered dirty white and dark brown. Hindwing dirty white.
MALE GENITALIA (FIG. 63)
Uncus about 2/3 of tegumen arm length, triangular, laterally and apically setose, apex pointed. Gnathos projection about 5/6 of uncus length, slender, with tip pointing downwards. Valva dorsal margin conspicuously convex, ventral margin straight, with ventral process reaching valva apex posteriorly, valva apex conspicuously rounded. Juxta short, base rounded, apex broad, truncate. Phallus slightly curved. Vesica with six cornuti of increasing length from 50 to 200 μm.
FEMALE GENITALIA (FIG. 124)
Antrum elongate, membranous. Colliculum lightly sclerotized, flattened. Ductus bursae bent at base, forming a pouch covered with small sclerotized spines on basal 1/4, medially narrow, distally enlarging towards corpus opening. Corpus bursae small, globular, barely delimited from corpus. Signum forming one large sclerotized patch.
DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Benguet), Panay (Antique). Collected at altitudes between 800 and 2350 m.
DNA BARCODING
A maximum intraspecific p-distance of 0.7% is found between samples MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL01-A02 and MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-A01, both from Benguet, Luzon.
ETYMOLOGY
From the Ilonggo masiit, “spiny,” referring to the six cornuti observed on the vesica as well as the spines found in the ductus pouch.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964