Coleophora cederbergensis Baldizzone 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Baldizzone, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Coleophoridae
Coleophora
Coleophora cederbergensis

description: Coleophora cederbergensis, sp. nov.
(Figs. 10, 55–61)
Holotype ♂ (GP Bldz 15026) “RSA, Cederberg | Algeria | Jamaka Farm, 1.- 3.3.2005 | leg. W.Mey LF”, [S 32°20.242’ E 19°01.473’, 510 m], in coll. MfN.
Paratype: 1♀ (GP Bldz 15025), idem, in coll. MfN.
Diagnosis. Medium-sized species with broadly streaked white forewing, belongs to the group of C. diffusa Meyrick, 2013. The male genitalia resembles that of C. rabdophaeella Baldizzone, 2019, species of which the female is unknown. The main differences are as follows: in C. rhabdophaeella the transtilla is shorter, curved and wider, the protuberance on the outer edge of the valve is inconspicuous, whereas that of C. cederbergensis is large and well sclerotized; the protuberance in the dorsal angle of the sacculus is narrower and sharper, the phallotheca is longer with two evident juxta rods, whereas that of C. cederbergensis is conical, more sclerotized at the apex; the cornuti are smaller and more numerous, gathered in a curved and not straight formation like that of C. cederbergensis.
Description. Wingspan 15 mm. Head white. Antenna: scape white on outer side, ochre on inner side, without erect scales; flagellum white. Labial palpus ochre on outer side, almost completely white on inner side; third article as long as second. Proboscis very short. Thorax white. Tegula white, brown suffused externally. Forewing with white costal streak, ending before apex; a long and narrow brown area between costal streak and wide white streak in middle of wing; this streak formed by the fusion of the one that runs along the lower edge of cell and the one that covers the anal fold: in male these streaks partially divided by thin line of brown scales, which are also located on the lower edge of the anal streak; in female brown scales almost absent; costal cilia white, brown to apex; dorsal cilia light grey. Hindwing grey; cilia light grey. Abdomen white.
Abdominal structures (Figs. 58, 61): Anterior lateral struts about 2.5 times as long as posteriors. Transverse strut thin and linear on proximal edge, sclerotized only in middle, more sclerotized on distal edge except in central part. Tergal disks (3 rd tergite) length about 3 times their width, covered with about 50 small spines.
Male genitalia (Figs. 55–57): Gnathos knob globular. Tegumen long, pedunculus slightly dilated outwards. Transtilla straight and thin. Valvula elongate, subtriangular, with small rounded well-sclerotized protuberance at base of dorsal expansion of sacculus. Cucullus narrowed at base, progressively widened to apex. Sacculus large, very sclerotized, curved and thick on slightly expanded edge of ventral angle with large, blunt, horn-shaped protuberance at apex of dorsal angle. Phallotheca short and conical, more sclerotized at apex. Cornuti numerous, of different lengths, gathered in bundle almost as long as vesica.
Female genitalia (Figs. 59–60): Papillae anales elongate-oval, covered with spinules of different length and long setae on outer side. Apophyses stout: posteriores about twice as long as anteriores. Sterigma trapezoidal, about 2.5 times wider than long, with longitudinal folds, distal edge straight with some long thin setae and largely hollowed by sinus vaginalis. Colliculum cup-shaped, more sclerotized in distal part. Ductus bursae transparent, with thin medial line in last distal 1/4; finely spinulose proximal part of ductus progressively widened to corpus bursae which is shaped like an elongated sac.
Bionomy. The early stages and the foodplant are unknown.
Distribution. RSA (prov. Western Cape).
Etymology. The name derives from the place where the species was collected, the Cederberg mountains.
description: Published as part of Baldizzone, Giorgio, 2021, On the taxonomy of Afrotropical Coleophoridae (VI). New species of the genus Coleophora Hübner, 1822 from South Africa (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae), pp. 167-205 in Zootaxa 5071 (2) on page 187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5723470