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

description: <i>Glyphidocera fabulae</i>, new species (Figs. 243–245, 368, Map 44) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera fabulae</i>, <i>G. sapphiri</i>, and <i>G. arenae</i> share abdominal sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, an elongate valval cucullus, and an elongate and narrow apical cornutus within the vesica of the aedeagus. <i>G. fabulae</i> can be distinguished from those two species by having an abdomen with more rows of sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, a wider gnathos, a wider base of the dorsal strut of the tegumen, a wider valval cucullus, and a large, upturned dorsal furca of the valval costa. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus with segment I and basal half of segment II brown, distal half of segment II and segment III pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; inner surface pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale brown and brown; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6 [many setiform scales associated with 4 th flagellomere are missing]; proboscis pale brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; a pale banding appears near distal margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 368): Length 6.9 –7.0 mm (n = 2), brown intermixed with brown scales tipped with pale brown; cell with 2 large, faint, brown spots, 1 spot near middle, 1 spot near distal end. Undersurface brown intermixed with pale­brown scales along costal margin. Hindwing: Brown. Abdomen (Fig. 243): Male with 4 transverse rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 244–245): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near 1 / 3, near parallelsided apically, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent from a wide base, extending dorsally, widely to base of uncus; costa of valva shallowly emarginate broadly from a shallow depression beyond a basal, digitate process and a broadly upturned dorsal furca; apex bifurcate, each furca widely divergent; dorsal furca about 3 times larger than ventral furca; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly beyond midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many stout, cornuti, bearing an elongate, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near 1 / 3 length, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] S[an]ta Rosa, 300 m, P[arque] N[acional] Guanacaste, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, I Curso Microlepidoptera, Jul. 1990, L­N­ 313000, 359800 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 306838 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No. 513 ” [yellow label]. Paratype 1 ɗ, “Finca El Rodeo, Prov. San José, COSTA RICA, 810 m, Nov. 1992, K. Janeway, L­N­ 211000, 507000, # 5933 ”, “ CRI 002, 305949 ”, “Slide No. 508.” Distribution (Map 44): <i>Glyphidocera fabulae</i> is known from two collecting sites in Costa Rica; one in the north­western part of Costa Rica south­west of the Cordillera de Guanacaste, and one site in the south­central part of the country south of the Cordillera Central. Etymology: The species epithet <i>fabulae</i> is derived from the Latin “fabula,” meaning story.
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 139-140, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793