Torodora parisortilega Yu et Wang 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yu, Shuai
name: Zhu, Yanmei
name: Wang, Shuxia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Torodora
Torodora parisortilega

description: Torodora parisortilega Yu et Wang, sp. nov.
(Figs 10, 28, 44)
Type material. CHINA, Xizang [Tibet]: Holotype ♂, Zhangmu Town (27°59′N, 85°58′E), Nielamu County, 1961 m, 8.VII.2019, leg. MJ Qi & JQ Deng, slide No. YS 20111. Paratypes: 2♀, same data as holotype, slide No. YS 20323.
Diagnosis. This new species is similar to T. sortilega (Meyrick, 1911) in both appearance and male genitalia. It can be distinguished by the antenna glabrous ventrally, in the female genitalia by the triangular signum wider than long; in T. sortilega, the antenna is ciliate ventrally in male, and the strawberry-shaped signum is longer than wide (Park 2003a: 19, fig. 9).
Description. Adult (Fig. 10). Wingspan 23.0‒23.5 mm.
Head pale yellowish brown. Antenna with scape pale yellowish brown; flagellum orange white. Labial palpus with second palpomere orange white on inner surface, brown on outer surface; third palpomere pale yellowish brown, as long as second palpomere.
Thorax and tegula yellowish brown. Forewing slightly widened distally, costal margin slightly arched, apex roundly produced, termen shallowly concave; ground color brown, mixed with yellowish brown scales; discal stigma blackish brown, rounded; discocellular stigmata blackish brown, doubled, small, rounded; subterminal line pale brownish yellow, obscure; fringe pale greyish brown, basal line orange white. Hindwing and fringe pale yellowish brown; fringe with an orange white basal line. Legs pale yellow except femora and tibiae yellowish brown ventrally.
Male genitalia (Fig. 28). Uncus wide at base, narrowed to basal 2/3, distal 1/3 clubbed; with a small spine at base laterally. Gnathos with basal plate triangularly produced posteriorly; mesial process wide at base, slightly narrowed to middle where it curved ventrad, distal half arched, slender to pointed apex. Valva broad basally, slightly narrowed to cucullus; cucullus about 2/5 length of valva, extending obliquely dorsad, triangular, narrowed from base to rounded apex, obtuse ventrally; costa concave medially, straight distally; sacculus wide at base, abruptly narrowed to basal 1/3, distal 2/3 slender to cucullus, ventral margin straight except gently arched basally. Vinculum narrow, rounded on anterior margin. Juxta quadrate, shallowly concave on posterior margin, produced to a papillary process at middle on anterior margin. Aedeagus shorter than valva, tubular, gently arched, denticulate ventrodistally; cornuti consisting of dense spines of variable size running from beyond middle to apex and a small, heavily sclerotized plate situated beyond middle.
Female genitalia (Fig. 44). Eighth abdominal sternite shallowly concave on posterior margin. Apophyses posteriores about twice length of apophyses anteriores. Antrum membranous, funnel-shaped. Ductus bursae distinctly shorter than corpus bursae, narrowed posteriorly, widened anteriorly; ductus seminalis slender, arising from about middle of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae large, elliptical; signum situated at posterior 1/3, triangular, wider than long, denticulate.
Distribution. China (Xizang [Tibet]).
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin par- and sortilega, referring to the similarity of the new species and T. sortilega.
description: Published as part of Yu, Shuai, Zhu, Yanmei & Wang, Shuxia, 2022, Eighteen new species and fifteen new records of the genus Torodora Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) from China, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 5133 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6521240