Torodora babeana Park, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Torodora
Torodora babeana

description: Torodora babeana Park, sp. nov.
(Figs. 5, 12, 12 a, 16)
Type. HOLOTYPE ɗ, Cuc Phuong Nat. Park, 200 m, Ninh Vinh Prov., Vietnam, 11–12.VI.2004 (K.T. Park & N. Cuong), gen. slide no. CIS-5242. PARATYPES. 1ɗ, same data as holotype, gen. slide no. CIS- 5247. 1ɗ, same locality, 450 m, 24.IV.2006 (Park, Kim, Kang), gen. slide no. CIS-5243. 3ɗ, 1&, Ba Be Nat. Park, Bac Khan Prov., 26–28.VII.2006 (Park, Chae, & Cuong), gen. slide no. CIS-5248 (&). Types deposited in CIS.
Diagnosis. This new species is similar to T. chinanensis, T. vietnamensis sp. nov., and T. manoconta Wu & Liu. It can be distinguished from them only by features of the male genitalia: apex of uncus smaller, less expanded laterally; lateral lobe of juxta digitate with serrate edge preapically; cornuti a long spine, about 1/3 length of aedeagus and shorter one forming a round plate with spines.
Description. Male. Forewing length 19–20 mm. Head shiny, pale brownish yellow, with concolorous erect scales laterally. Antenna with pedicel pale brownish orange, shiny dorsally; flagellum pale brownish orange throughout, with pale brownish annulations. Second segment of labial palpus rather slender, pale brownish orange all around; 3rd segment as long as second, dark brown ventrally. Tegula and thorax shiny golden brown. Forewing ground color shiny golden brown, often with large yellowish triangular or elongate patch near 2/3 on inner margin; apex somewhat round; termen less oblique; fringe golden brown. R3 stalked at basal 1/3; R4 and R5 stalked beyond basal 4/5; R5 to termen; M1 close to R3+4+5at base; M2 and M3 connate at base; M3 and CuA1 stalked for 1/2, sometimes fro 2/3 length. Hindwing pale yellowish brown; apex acute; M3 and CuA1 stalked mesially, sometimes near basal 1/3 length; fringe golden brown. Hind tibia with dark brown hairlike setae preapically.
Male genitalia (Figs. 12, 12 a). Uncus with clavate apex, somewhat rounded. Gnathos strongly bent downwardly. Valva foot-shaped, costa gently concave mesially. Juxta with heavily sclerotized, crescent-shaped median flap; flap often concealed on slide-mounts (see Fig. 12). Lateral lobe of juxta digitate, serrate preapically on outer margin. Aedeagus with a pair of cornuti: longer one spine-shaped, slender, about 1/3 length of aedeagus; shorter one with large round plate basally, with few spines.
Female genitalia (Fig. 16). Eighth sternum deeply emarginate at middle. Apophysis anterioris very short. Antrum poorly defined. Ductus bursae broad, with heavily sclerotized plates of variable shape in distal half. Corpus bursae ovate; signum elliptical, a heavily sclerotized plate with many spinules on surface, shorter than 1/4 length of corpus bursa.
Distribution. Vietnam (North).
Etymology. The species name is derived from the geographic locality of four of the paratypes, Ba Be, Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, 2007, A review of the Torodora manoconta species-group (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), with descriptions of three new species, pp. 55-64 in Zootaxa 1465 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273738