Glyphidocera tibiae ADAMSKI, 2005, new species
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera tibiae

description: <i>Glyphidocera tibiae</i>, new species (Figs. 168–170, 287, 343, Map 30) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera tibiae</i> is similar to <i>G. novercae</i> but differs from the latter by having an absence of sex scales between abdominal terga 2–3 in male, a wider dorsal furca of the valval costa, and a less protuberant ventral furca. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus dark brown intermixed with pale­brown scales to apical margin of segment II, segment III pale brown intermixed with dark­brown scales; inner surface pale brown intermixed with few brown and dark­brown scales; scape of antenna pale brown intermixed with few dark­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale­brown and brown scales; male 4 th flagellum dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of 4 th flagellomere; proboscis brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brownish yellow intermixed with few dark­brown scales. Legs dark brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 343): Length 7.8–8.8 mm (n = 11), brownish yellow intermixed with few dark­brown scales; cell with Radius and Cubitus irregularly overlaid with dark­brown scales, and few dark­brown scales within [some rubbed specimens with dark­brown scales absent]. Undersurface brown intermixed with pale brownishyellow scales along costa. Hindwing: Pale brown. Abdomen (Fig. 168): Male with with 4 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 3–4. Male Genitalia (Figs. 169–170): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, slightly widened laterally, apex setose, acuminate, and recurved; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from shallow depression slightly beyond a basal, digitate process to an inwardly curved dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, each furca widely divergent; dorsal furca large; ventral furca, a broadly rounded lobe; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly beyond midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a narrowly elongate, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side slightly shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia (Fig. 287): Papillae anales elongate, wider basally than apically; apophysis posterioris and apophysis anterioris about equal in length; eighth sternum narrower than eighth tergum; eighth sternum with posterior margin broadly rounded, anterior margin broadly emarginate; eighth tergum with posterior margin nearly straight, anterior margin broadly emarginate; antrum enlarged posteriorly from a constricted anterior end, posterior margin nearly straight, posterolateral margin angular, anterior end with a pair of elongate, spinelike processes inside cavity formed from outer wall; ductus bursae short; corpus bursae slightly enlarged anteriorly, sparsely denticulate; ductus seminalis long, coils decreasing in size distally; ductus seminalis with a short, 5 ­coiled internal support; side opposite ductus bursae slightly swollen, with a moderately long, internal support. Holotype, ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Est[ación] Biol[ógica] La Selva, 50–150 m, 10 ° 26 'N, 84 °01'W, Mar. 1993, INBio­OET”, “ 20 Mar. 1993, Bosque primario, L/01/022”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 001, 230676 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 858 ” [yellow label]. Paratypes (9 ɗ, 1 Ψ): 8 ɗ, 1 Ψ, Same label data as holotype except, “ 17 Mar. 1993, L/ 02/018”, “ CRI 001, 225854 ”, “Slide No. 975 ”; “ 13 Apr. 1993, L/02/026”, “ CRI 001, 231205 ”, “Slide No. 970 ”; “ 18 Junio 1993, L/02/046”, “ CRI 001, 233143 ”, “Ψ Slide No. 859 ”; “ 17 Octubre 1993, Lab. clearing, L/04/077”, “ CRI 001, 239675 ”, “Slide No. 974 ”; “ 10 Enero 1994, Bosque primario, L/02/090”, “ CRI 001, 258996 ”, “Slide No. 856 ”; “ 29 Junio 1994, L/01/ 109 ”, “ CRI 001, 243869 ”, “Slide No. 984 ”; “ 4 Julio 1994, Lab. area, L/ 04/ 118 ”, “ CRI 001, 244514 ”, “Slide No. 978 ”; “ 6 Feb. 1996, STR 250 m, L/00/ 123 ”, “ CRI 001, 249773 ”, “Slide No. 973 ”; “ 19 Feb. 1996, L/00/ 157 ”, “ CRI 001, 250418 ”, “Slide No. 920 ”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Pitilla, 700 m, 9 km S Sta. Cecilia, Prov. Guan., COSTA RICA, C. Moraga &amp; P. Rios, Dic. 1990, L­N­ 330200, 380200 ”, “ CRI 000, 280964 ”, “Slide No. 750 ”, (6 in INBio, 4 in USNM). Distribution (Map 30): <i>Glyphidocera tibiae</i> is known from two collecting sites in Costa Rica; one in the north­west along the Cordillera de Guanacaste and one in the northcentral part of the country, north of the Cordillera Central. Etymology: The species epithet <i>tibiae</i> is derived from the Latin “tibia,” meaning a reed pipe.
description: Published as part of <i>DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), pp. 1-158 in Zootaxa 858</i> on pages 98-100, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793