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

description: Concinocordis, gen. n.
Figs. 4, 18, 31, 40, 43
Type species: Concinocordis wilsonarum, sp. n.
Diagnosis. Owing to its bright orange forewing ground color, Concinocordis is superficially similar to Anthozela Meyrick, 1913, Loboschiza Diakonoff, 1968, Cimeliomorpha Diakonoff, 1966, and Enarmoniodes Ghesquière, 1940 among genera of Enarmoniini. Concinocordis can be distinguished from Anthozela and Loboschiza by its slightly larger size and by the presence of numerous (21–25) raised, round patches of opalescent scales on the forewing (Fig. 4), which are similar to those of Cimeliomorpha Diakonoff and Enarmoniodes. In the latter two genera there are fewer spots. The wing venation of Concinocordis is most similar to that of Irianassa Meyrick, 1905, with the bases of Rs and M1 quite distant from each other in the hindwing. However, beyond venation, the two have little in common. Features of the genitalia easily distinguish the new genus from those of Cimeliomorpha and Enarmoniodes. The male genitalia of Concinocordis have a well-developed uncus and a simple, nearly parallel-sided valva with a slightly expanded, rounded cucullus; those of Cimeliomorpha (e.g., C. cymbalora (Meyrick, 1907) and C. nabokovi Kuznetsov, 1997) lack an uncus and have a long, slender, pointed apex of the valva with a long, broad, ovoid saccular region that extends more than half the length of the valva (see Clarke 1958: 435, Kuznetsov 1997: 801); those of Enarmoniodes (e.g., E. mirabilis Ghesquière) lack an uncus and have a complex valva with a bulbous, rounded basoventral portion and a conspicuous hairy digitate process from the venter of the base of the cucullus. The female genitalia of Concinocordis have a peculiar, long, tubular signum that extends externally well beyond the wall of the corpus bursae, unlike that of any other known tortricid.
Description. Head: Smooth scaled; labial palpus short, ca. 1.3 times horizontal diameter of compound eye (Fig. 40); ocellus moderately large; antenna ca. 0.5 forewing length, sensillae short in both sexes, ca. 0.1 times flagellomere diameter; proboscis ca. as long as labial palpus, presumably functional. Thorax: Tegula long, extending to ca. middle of metathorax; small patch of raised scales at posterior end of mesonotum; legs unmodified, male without conspicuous secondary sex scales. Forewing (Fig. 43) expanding to ca. middle, distal ca. 0.5 relatively uniform in width; apex broadly rounded; termen slightly rounded; all veins present and separate beyond discal cell; discal cell ca. 0.63 length of forewing; M-stem well developed; chorda absent; CuA2 originating ca. 0.75 length of discal cell; male without forewing costal fold; hindwing with Rs and M1 originating distant from each other, CuA1 and M3 short-stalked; male frenulum with one bristle, female with three (as in most other Enarmoniini; see Rota et al. 2009). Abdomen: Unmodified, lacking conspicuous secondary scales. Male genitalia (Fig. 18) with pedunculi long, slender; vinculum well developed, broad; uncus in form of subrectangular process with somewhat rounded apex, bearing a few long ventroterminal setae (frequently lost in slide mounted preparations) from large sockets; socius broad with sparse hairs; valva slender, nearly parallel-sided, with large basal process, sacculus simple, cucullus ovoid with small ventral lobe; juxta with small triangular basal plate and broad, subrectangular, hollow, shieldlike plate covering phallobase; phallus simple, slender, vesica without cornuti. Female genitalia (Fig. 31) with papillae anales slender; apophyses moderately long, slender, anteriores about as long as posteriores, distinctly curved medially; sterigma weakly sclerotized, minutely spined posteriorly; rim of ostium bursae slender; antrum weakly sclerotized, broader than ductus bursae; ductus bursae very slender, long; ductus seminalis from ductus bursae immediately posterad of junction of corpus bursae and ductus bursae, opposite of a small, somewhat linear sclerite; corpus bursae ovoid pear-shaped, with dense, extremely fine spines, except in posterior portion (longest spines ventrally and postmedially); signum a double-walled, tubular sclerite with extremely long, tubular capitulum extending outside of corpus bursae, a dense patch of spines at junction of capitulum and corpus bursae extending internally, and an attenuate terminal portion within corpus bursae.
Etymology. The name is comprised of the Latin “concino,” meaning to sing together, celebrate, and the Latin “cordis,” meaning heart. The name is in honor of the musical group Heart.
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 page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280255