Scaeosopha erecta Li et Zhang 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Houhun
name: Zhang, Zhiwei
name: Sinev, Sergey Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cosmopterigidae
Scaeosopha
Scaeosopha erecta

description: <i>Scaeosopha erecta</i> Li <i>et</i> Zhang sp. nov. (Figs. 10, 34) <b>Description.</b> Adult (Fig. 10): Wingspan 13.0 mm. Head with frons grayish-white, vertex leaden, scale tuft behind compound eye whitish yellow mixed with black scales. Antenna grayish-white except scape black and flagellum ringed with black on dorsal surface. Labial palpus grayish-white, third segment with black annulus near apex. Thorax black, margined with whitish yellow. Tegula grayish-yellow, diffused with black scales. Forewing whitish yellow, with sparse deep-yellow scales on basal half, becoming denser beneath fold, with dense deep-yellow scales on distal half, becoming fainter beneath fold; grayish-white line from 3/4 length of costa obliquely to termen below apex, its outside with a cuneiform black blotch; longitudinal brown streak along middle of fold; tuft of erect deepyellow scales beneath fold at 3/5; cilia deep-yellow mixed with black. Hindwing and cilia deep-gray. Legs grayishwhite, except fore and mid legs with femur and tibia black and grayish-yellow on outer side. Male genitalia (Fig. 34): Brachia of uncus parallel margined, hooked apically. Valvae slightly asymmetrical, with several long setae near base of costa; left valva slightly concave on costal and ventral margins, its distal 2/5 expanded, setose, rounded terminally; right valva slightly concave on costal margin, straight on ventral margin, gradually expanded distally, setose on distal 1/4, obliquely rounded terminally; valvellae finger-shaped, distal 1/3 setose, left valvella narrowly rounded, right valvella rounded at apex. Anellus sclerotized, cone-shaped, reaching 1/ 5 length of uncus brachium. Phallus membranous, evenly broad, twisted in S shape, with alongitudinal sclerotized cornutus in basal 3/4. Female. Unknown. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype &amp;male;, <b>CHINA</b>: Liulianling [18°47' N, 110°23' E], Wanning City, Hainan Province, 100 m, 23–26.vii.2008, coll. Bingbing Hu &amp; Li Zhang, genitalia slide no. ZZW09004 (NKUM, Tianjin). <b>Distribution.</b> China. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the forewing having a tuft of erect deep-yellow scales beneath posteriad of fold at 3/5. It resembles <i>S</i>. <i>spinivalvata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in the male genitalia, but can be separated by the finger-shaped valvellae: the left one with narrowly rounded apex and the right one with rounded apex and the long and narrow cornutus (Fig. 34); in <i>S</i>. <i>spinivalvata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, the valvellae are spine-shaped in distal 1/4 and acuminate apically, and the cornutus is shorter and differently shaped (Fig. 39). <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is derived from the Latin <i>erectus</i> = erect, referring to the tuft of erect scales at 3/5 wing length beneath fold on the forewing.
description: Published as part of <i>Li, Houhun, Zhang, Zhiwei &amp; Sinev, Sergey Yu., 2012, Review of the genus Scaeosopha Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Scaeosophinae) in the world, with descriptions of sixteen new species, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3322</i> on pages 14-15