Astrotischeria maya Diskus & Stonis, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jonas R. Stonis
name: Arūnas Diškus
name: Fernando Carvalho Filho
name: Owen T. Lewis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tischeriidae
Astrotischeria
Astrotischeria maya

description: Astrotischeria maya Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov.
(Figs. 7, 83–92, 233–235)
Type material. Holotype: ♂, HONDURAS: Copán Department, Copán Archaeological Site Ruinas, 14°50'13"N, 89°08'37"W, elevation ca. 620 m, 15.ii.2012, A. Diškus, genitalia slide no. AD524♂ (ZMUC).
Diagnosis. From the most similar A. selvica it differs in the apically rounded dorsal lobe of valva and the narrow gap between median lobes of uncus.
Male (Figs. 83, 84). Forewing length about 2.9 mm; wingspan about 6.4 mm. Head: face pale brown; palpi brownish cream; frontal tuft comprised of brownish cream lamellar scales; pecten very prominent; antenna with about 36 segments, longer than half the length of forewing; flagellum ochre cream; sensillae very long and fine, brownish cream. Thorax ochre cream; tegula densely speckled with grey-brown scales, particularly densely anteriorly. Forewing slender, speckled with pale brown to dark brown scales, especially densely along costa in apical half of the forewing; most of the dark scales pale-tipped; apically forewing with an elongated, pale yellowish ochre patch; fringe pale brown on costal margin and tornus but yellowish ochre near to the apical patch; fringe-line indistinct, formed by a few black-brown scales; forewing underside brown, without spots or androconia. Hindwing brown on both upper and underside, except narrow edges on upper side which remain cream; no androconia; fringe pale grey-brown. Legs very contrasting in color: bright yellow cream to ochre cream, speckled with dark greybrown scales on upper side or ochreous cream scales distally.
Female. Unknown.
Male genitalia (Figs. 7, 85–92). Capsule about 520 µm long, 265–280 µm wide. Uncus consisting of two slender, long, lateral lobes and two short, rounded, median lobes (Fig. 86); the gap between median lobes narrow. Valva divided (Fig. 7): ventral lobe slightly curved, about 360 µm long and rather wide (Fig. 85); dorsal lobes consisting of two lobes: an inwardly curved, distally rounded lobe (Figs. 89, 90) and more thickened, distally pointed lobe; transtilla absent; basal process of valva long (Figs. 86, 89). Anellus with 5 setae, thickened only proximally (Fig. 91), distally membranous. Phallus 640 µm long, distally bifurcated and without numerous fine spines (Figs. 87, 92).
Bionomics. Adults fly in February. Otherwise biology unknown.
Distribution (Fig. 233). Known from a single locality in Honduras, at an elevation of about 600 m (Figs. 234, 235).
Etymology. This species is named after the Maya people, a Mesoamerican civilization in reference to the discovery of the species right in the Copán archaeological site, a world-wide famous Mayan ruins in Honduras.
description: Published as part of Jonas R. Stonis, Arūnas Diškus, Fernando Carvalho Filho & Owen T. Lewis, 2018, American Asteraceae-feeding Astrotischeria species with a highly modified, three-lobed valva in the male genitalia (Lepidoptera, Tischeriidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4469 (1) on pages 27-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4469.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1454525