Afroromieuxia bernardlandryi Bassi 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: Bassi, Graziano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Afroromieuxia
Afroromieuxia bernardlandryi

description: Afroromieuxia bernardlandryi sp. n.
Figs 1, 2, 12, 14, 22
Material examined
Holotype: Male; [DRC], H[au]t Katanga, Tshinkolobwe, 10.xii. [19]30, J[ean] Romieux, GS 6903 GB, MHNG. Paratypes: Male, same locality and collector as holotype, 18.xii. [19]30, RCGB. – Female, some locality and collector as holotype, 15.xii. [19]30, GS 6720 GB, MHNG. – Male; some locality and collector as holotype, 17.xii. [19]30, GS 2206 GB, MHNG. – Male; Elisabethville [DRC, Haut Katanga, now Lubumbashi], 8.XII.1937, Ch. Seydel [legit], GS 3223 GB, RMCA. – Female; Elisabethville, 28.x.1932, Ch. Seydel [legit], GS 6911 GB. RCGB.
Diagnosis: For differences from A. aarviki and A. ustjuzhanini externally and in the female genitalia, see the diagnosis under A. aarviki. In the male genitalia the feature of the uncus and gnathos associated with the strongly developed pars basalis of the valva, the dorsally produced vinculum and the two large subapical teeth in the phallus are unlike all known Afrotropical species of Ancylolomiini.
Etymology: The species is dedicated to Bernard Landry (MHNG), well known Crambinae specialist, a colleague, but above all a great friend over the last few decades.
Description (Figs 1, 2): Wingspan: holotype 26 mm; males 25 and 26 mm; females 28 and 29 mm. Labial palpus 4 x eye diameter, bronze brown bordered white; inner side white. Maxillary palpus basally bronze brown, apically white. Antenna biserrate in male, filiform in female, with scape white, then brown with bronze brown costa. Frons rounded, slightly produced, white. Vertex white. Patagia white with lateral edge dark brown. Tegulae dark brown with external border white. Thorax white. Forewing and hindwing as in Figs 1, 2 and under diagnosis of A. aarviki. Forewing fringes bright golden brown with double medial band white. Underside of forewing bright brown medially, suffused with white elsewhere and with terminal line brown; underside of hindwing brown along costa, then white and with terminal line light brown. Abdomen off-white with first three tergites suffused with brown; sternites more intensely suffused with brown. Legs bronze brown with inner side white; tibial spurs small, strongly asymmetrical, first pair longer than apical pair.
Male genitalia (Figs 12, 14). Uncus twice as long as tegumen, narrow, basally with round patch of spinulae, arched distally and pointed apically. Gnathos slightly shorter than uncus, subtriangular basally, then thin, upcurved and pointed. Tegumen short, triangular. Vinculum strongly produced dorsally, with lateral arms subrectangular. Juxta v-shaped with apical tips triangular. Pseudosaccus minute. Valva subrectangular, twice as long as uncus; basal costal process 0.8 as long as uncus, distally upcurved and wrinkled. Phallus subcylindrical, with two triangular, serrated apical teeth; vesica without cornuti.
Female genitalia (Fig. 22). Papillae anales strongly produced dorsally, fused with ninth abdominal segment. Ninth abdominal segment more sclerotized ventrally. Apophyses posteriores basally a hardly traceable line, then arched and with rounded tip. Abdominal segment VIII bulged dorsally and sclerotized medially. Apophyses anteriores 0.7 as long as apophyses posteriores, straight, with rounded tip. Ostium bursae rounded, sclerotized, slightly produced. Ductus bursae half the length of corpus bursae, wrinkled. Ductus seminalis branching off at 0.75 of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae broad, suboval, with two vertical stripes of spinulae.
Biology: Unknown.
Distribution: Presently known from the DRC, Haut- Katanga Province only.
description: Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, 2021, New genera and species of Afrotropical Ancylolomiini Ragonot, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae sensu lato: Crambinae), pp. 477-486 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2) on pages 483-485, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0058, http://zenodo.org/record/5640160