Cosmetra podocarpivora Razowski & Brown, 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Razowski, Józef
name: Brown, John W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Cosmetra
Cosmetra podocarpivora

description: Cosmetra podocarpivora, sp. n.
Figs. 6, 20
Diagnosis. Superficially, C. podocarpivora is similar to C. taitana, but the forewing ground color is pale brown in the former and grayish green in the latter. The male genitalia of C. podocarpivora are most similar to those of C. nereidopa, but the sacculus of C. podocarpivora lacks a distinct caudal angle, and the ventral lobe of the cucullus is indistinct and lacks the single strong spine present in C. nereidopa.
Description. Male. Head: Vertex and upper frons beige; lower frons with appressed pale cream scales; labial palpus conspicuously broadened by scales distally, length ca. 1.3 times horizontal diameter of compound eye. Thorax: Notum mostly pale brown; hindtibia densely clothed in long whitish scales. Forewing length 5.5–6.0 mm (n = 2); forewing slightly expanded distally; costa weakly and gradually convex; termen slightly oblique, somewhat concave beneath apex; ground color pale brownish, with fine irregular darker brown irrorations in basal 0.5; distinct, dark brown, oblique median fascia from costa ca. 0.6 distance from base to apex, terminating at lower edge of discal cell; patches of white scales along basal 0.5 of dorsum. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 20) with uncus represented by broad, low hump dorsally, with a few scattered long setae and small sclerotized processes ventromedially; socius with large, lateral, sclerotized hump near base, moderate process near middle, and sclerotized, pointed distal portion; valva with neck absent, ventral edge of sacculus oblique, angle absent, cucullus broad, rounded, without ventral lobe, with submarginal group of strong spines on lower 0.7; phallus short, broad, vesica with eight deciduous cornuti (represented by sockets in holotype).
Female. Head and thorax: Essentially as described for male, except lacking long scales on hindtibia; forewing length 6.5 mm (n = 1); patches of white scales along basal 0.5 of dorsum with some gray-green scales. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 39) with papillae anales unmodifed, parallel-sided, setose; apophyses about 1.2 times length of papilliae anales, posteriores and anteriores of similar length; sterigma a complicated medial process with ovoid ositum subtended by a pair of strong, lateral, anvil-shaped processes, each with a flattened, densely and finely spined posterior margin, mesal posterior portion of sterigma a subrectangular plate, with dense microtrichia; ductus bursae about 3 times length of apophyses, relatively uniform in width in posterior 0.6, sclerotized in posterior 0.3, abruptly broadened in anterior 0.3; origin of ductus seminalis inconspicuous; corpus bursae cordate, finely punctuate, with a pair of moderately large, thorn-shaped signa.
Holotype (3): Kenya, Central Province, Gatamayu Forest, 2281 m, ca. 0°58.20’S, 36°41.68’E, 24 Apr 2001, A&M Coll. #1193, r.f. fruit of Podocarpus latifolius [Podocarpaceae]; GS USNM 124,453.
Paratypes (13, 1Ƥ). KENYA: EASTERN PROVINCE: Mt. Kenya Forest, 2500 m, 24 Jan 2002 (13), A&M Coll. #1699, r.f. Podocarpus latifolius; GS USNM 124,467. WESTERN PROVINCE: Itieni Forest, 2560 m, 0°14.05’N, 37°52.58’E, 25 May 2004 (1Ƥ), A&M Coll. #2904, r.f. fruit of Podocarpus latifolius; GS USNM 124,5043.
Etymology. The name refers to the genus of the food plant, Podocarpus.
Remarks. The genitalia of the male paratype differ slightly from those of the holotype in the following: socius slightly larger with middle process less defined, and the presence of a distinctly sclerotized arch above the excavation immediately basad of the lower edge of the cucullus.
description: Published as part of Razowski, Józef & Brown, John W., 2012, Descriptions of new Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) reared from native fruit in Kenya, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 3222 on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280255