Glyphidocera vestita Walsingham 1911
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera vestita

description: <i>Glyphidocera vestita</i> Walsingham 1911 (Figs. 225–227, 362, Map 41) <i>Glyphidocera vestita</i> Walsingham, 1911: 112; Becker 1984: 41 (checklist). Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera vestita</i> is most similar to <i>G. speculae</i> but differs by having fewer rows of sex scales between terga 2–3 on the abdomen of the male, a tegumen that is wider basally, a narrower costal furcae of valva, a more protracted apicoventral margin of the valval cucullus, an apical cornutus with a bulbous base, and the presence of many spinelike cornuti on vesica of aedeagus. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer and inner surfaces of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale­brown scales to apical margin of segment II; scape of antenna brown intermixed with few pale­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale­brown scales; male 4 th flagellomere 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 protuberance of 4 th flagellomere; proboscis brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with brown scales tipped with pale brown or brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale­brown to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 362): Length 5.5–6.1 mm (n = 14), brown intermixed with pale­brown scales and few brownish­yellow scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with 2 small, faint spots, 1 spot near middle, 1 spot near distal end [rubbed specimens with spots faint or absent]. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale brown. Abdomen (Fig. 225): Male with 4 transverse rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 226–227): Uncus elongate, constricted near ½ length, broadly rounded and upturned apically, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially, extending dorsally, gradually widening narrowly to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from a shallow depression beyond a curved, basal, digitate process to an upturned dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, inner margin U­shaped; dorsal furca large, falcate, ventral furca extending slightly beyond outer margin of cucullus; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally forming an broadly rounded, slightly protracted cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many moderately large, spinelike cornuti, and bearing a large, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus bulbous basally, with one side shortened, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Types Examined: Holotype ɗ, “ Panama: Canal Zone, Tabernilla, VI. 1907, A, Busck, (5810). Paratype ɗ, same label data as holotype except, “ 33632 ”, “BM Slide No. 30123.” Other Specimens Examined: (14 ɗ), 9 ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, Finca de E. Rojas, Prov[incia] Limón, COSTA RICA, 150 m, Set. 1993, E. Rojas, L­N­ 286000, 567500, # 2347 ”, “ CRI 001, 141294 ”, “Slide No. 704 ”; “Ago., # 2291 ”, “ CRI 001, 135862 ”, “Slide No. 696 ”; “Oct.”, # 2395 ”, “ CRI 001, 642573 ”, “Slide No. 712 ”; “ Jul. 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 643115 ”, “Slide No. 699 ”; “ Nov. 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 460134 ”, “Slide No. 708 ”; “ Nov. 1991 ”, “ CRI 000, 460100 ”, “Slide No. 703 ”; “ CRI 000, 361367 ”, “Slide No. 700 ”; “ Oct. 1992 ”, “ CRI 000, 819733 ”, “Slide No. 695 ”; “ 26 Jun. a 16 Jul. 1992 ”, “ CRI 000, 703098 ”, “Slide No. 707 ”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Cuatro Esquinas, P. N. Tortuguero, 0 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, J. Solano, Oct. 1990, L­N­ 280000, 590500 ”, “Slide No. 850 ”; 1 ɗ, “Estacion Pitilla, 9 km S de Santa Cecilia, Prov. Guana., COSTA RICA, 700 m, 4–24 Abr. 1995, M. Moraga, L­N­329950, 380450, # 4627 ”, “ CRI 002, 141080 ”, “Slide No. 771 ”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Queb. Bonita, 50 m, Res. Biol. Carara, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Mar. 1991, L­N­194500, 469850”, “ CRI 000, 648556 ”, “Slide No. 642 ”; 1 ɗ, “Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Quepos, Prov. Punta., COSTA RICA, 8 m, Oct. 1993, G. Varela, L­S­ 370900, 448800, # 2463 ”, “ CRI 001, 998230 ”, “Slide No. 810 ”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Sirena, 0–100 m, P. N. Corcovado, Prov. Puntarenas, COSTA RICA, G. Fonseca, May 1992, L­S­ 270500, 508300 ”, “ CRI 000, 914883 ”, “Slide No. 793 ”, (7 in INBio, 6 in USNM). Distribution (Map 41): In Costa Rica, <i>Glyphidocera vestita</i> is known from north­western to north­central Costa Rica, south to the Pacific Coast from the Province of San José east to Puntarenas. <i>G. vestita</i> is also known from Panamá (Walsingham, 1911).
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 130-131, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793
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