Duplex pullata Fibiger 2010, new species
Creators: name: FIBIGER, MICHAEL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Duplex
Duplex pullata

description: <i>Duplex pullata</i> Fibiger, new species (Plate 10, figure 8; male genit. plate 20, figure 4; female genit. plate 26, figure 2) <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype. Male, Australia, Northern Territory, Mataranka Homestead, Roper River, 25.i.1977, leg. M. S. &amp; B. J. Moulds, genit. prep. 6081 M. Fibiger, coll. ANIC. Paratypes. 5 females. 1 female, Australia, Western Australia, Carson escarpment, 14º49’S 126º49’E, 9– 15.viii.1975, leg. I. F. B. Common &amp; M. S. Upton, genit. prep. 6082 M. Fibiger; 3 females, Australia, Northern Territory, Keep River National Park, 2 and 8 km NE Jarrnam, Keep River, 15º44’S 129º09’E, 25. &amp; 27.v.2001, leg. E. D. Edwards, genit. prep. 6083 M. Fibiger; 1female, Australia, Northern Territory, Keep River National Park, Spring 10 km NE Jarrnam, 15º45’S 129º10’E, 28.v.2001, leg. E. D. Edwards. Colls. ANIC and M. Fibiger. <b>Diagnosis. Imago (external).</b> Wingspan: 10–11 mm (apo.). Head, thorax, and ground colour forewing, including fringes: grey and blackish grey. Forewing: relatively long. Reniform stigma: bright, ovoid, yellow, outlined black. Crosslines: all lines present, often broken, black, waved; terminal line marked by dense black interneural spots. Hindwing: grey, discal spot absent. Underside: forewing grey; hindwing grey, with indistinct discal spot. Abdomen: grey. <b>Male genitalia.</b> Tegumen, vinculum: inconspicuous. Saccus: rounded apically. Juxta-anellus plate: totally fused, arched, semi-globular; with hole for phallus, prominently displaced to left; at dorsal edge two, long, spinelike, parallel, narrow processes. Valvae: slightly asymmetrical. Ampulla: asymmetrical; large; like two plates, medially separated by deep cleft; dorsal left plate: ventrally and dorsally straight, basally and apically rounded; dorsal right plate: same but shorter; ventral left and right plates: broad-based, pick-axe-like, with almost equally long lobes (apo.). Digitus: absent. Phallus: long, narrow, tapered, curved 190º, coiled clockwise (apo.). Vesica: unarmed. <b>Female genitalia.</b> Posterior apophyses: 1.25 longer than anterior apophyses (apo.). 8 th abdominal segment: short, ringlike; connected by membrane to 7 th segment on dorsal and lateral sides; ventrally strongly fused with 7 th segment extended half way up 7 th segment. 7 th segment: on dorsal side 4 times wider than 8 th segment. Antrum: narrow, conelike; ventral part half as long as on dorsal side (apo.). Ductus bursae: membranous, very narrow, almost twice as long as corpus bursae. Corpus bursae: globular; with cross shaped signum. <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> <i>D. pullata</i> differs from other known <i>Duplex</i> species in having second longest forewing of genus, though only slightly shorter than in following species, blackish grey forewing, shape of ampulla and antrum, and length of ductus bursae.
description: Published as part of <i>FIBIGER, MICHAEL, 2010, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 2583 (1)</i> on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1