Vangatinea panghapha Heppner & Bae 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Heppner, John B.
name: Bae, Yang-Seop
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tineidae
Vangatinea
Vangatinea panghapha

description: Vangatinea panghapha Heppner & Bae, sp. nov.
(Figs. 4, 7, 10, 12)
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Type locality: Thailand (Pangha Pha Pass, Mai Hong Son Prov.).
Type materials. Holotype: ♁, Pangha Pha Pass (868m) [near Soppong], Mai Hong Son Prov., Thailand, 27 Jul 2009, J. B. Heppner (gen. slide JBH–3197; adult photo 12222) (MGCL) (deposited at MGCL).
Diagnosis. This species is distinctive in the forewing having a basal orange mark besides the midwing orange fascia, the latter also without an extension to the apex (with apical finger-like extension in V. cambodiensis sp. nov.). Male genitalia with basal appendage on valvae.
Description. Wing expanse: 13.5 mm male (n = 1). Male (Fig. 4). Head (Fig. 7): vertex orange; frons yellow and laterally; caudal eye margin yellow; labial palpus yellow-white, with distal segment lighter and dark brown on basal segment, and bristles dark brown; antenna purple-brown, with light yellow segments on basal 5 segments and at 4/ 5 in short section; scape yellow. Thorax: golden-yellow to orange; tegula purple-brown to golden distally; venter purple-brown; forelegs purple-brown except yellow coxae, with remainder of legs golden except purplebrown markings at joints and dorsally on tarsi. Forewing (Fig. 4): lustrous dark brown, with dark orange fascia from costa at 2/5 and recurved to wing base, and wide orange fascia at midwing and with concave emargination by tornus; fringe purple-brown and long from before apex to tornus; venter lustrous dark brown, with light yellow patch on tornus. Hindwing (Fig. 4): pale bronze-brown, with purple-brown near apex; fringe purple-brown from before apex to tornus; venter lustrous dark brown. Abdomen: dark brown, with metallic bronze iridescence, with paler caudal marginal scales per tergite; venter light brown with bronze iridescence, with segmental caudal margins creamwhite; genital tufts brown with bronze iridescence; S6 caudally convex, medially conical. Male genitalia (Fig. 10): tegumen-vinculum as fused cylinder, with strong dorsal transtilla-like semi-circular ring; uncus undeveloped and membranous; medial linear subscaphium on diaphragma; valva quadratic and setose, with saccular margin strongly developed and densely setose and basally abruptly convex before basal joint; valval base with small triangular apically acute setose appendage; juxta-anellus complex as dorsal convex collar with lateral extended flattened arms to lateral semi-circular flattened ends; short oblong basal stylus plate; saccus short; aedeagus narrow and long, cornutus a single long thin tubule (subequal to aedeagus length and width). Female: unknown.
Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Pangha Pha Pass, northwestern Thailand (northwest of Chiang Mai).
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Known only from far northwestern Thailand (Mai Hong Son) (Fig. 12 map).
Discussion. The new species is closest to V. cambodiensis sp. nov., known only from the female, and could possibly be the male of the same species, but it seems to be a separate species.
description: Published as part of Heppner, John B. & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2023, New species of colorful tineids from Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam in the new genus Vangatinea (Lepidoptera: Tineidae: Erechthiinae), pp. 369-380 in Zootaxa 5264 (3) on pages 375-376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7836798