Scoparia tenuispina Leger 2024, sp. n.
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia tenuispina

description: Scoparia tenuispina Léger, sp. n.
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Figs. 08, 64.
MATERIAL
Holotype: ♂ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_8d160d, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-G04, genitalia on slide TL1037♂; BOLD sample ID PYPHI138-21, Genbank Accession Number PP196823). PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Mount Agtuuganon, 1050 m, 28.05-07.06.1996 (W. Mey). Deposited in MfN.
Paratypes: 2 ♂ (specimen identifiers coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_3d2f97, a471a9), 1 specimen with sex unknown (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_9a94b7) (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/10.5061/ dryad.b8gtht7mh).
DIAGNOSIS
The short and large white forewings with dark brown markings (Fig. 08) separate this species from other Scopariinae from the Philippines. In male genitalia (Fig. 64), the duck-beak shaped apex of the uncus, the slender valva, and the thin tubular cornutus on the vesica easily separates this species from its congeners. No female specimen could confidently be assigned to this species.
HABITUS (FIG. 08)
Forewing length 5 mm (n = 2), rather large (width = 0.45 X length), white, sprinkled with dark brown scales, markings dark brown. Base dark brown. Antemedian line running from costal 1/4 to dorsal half, curved outwards, basally well-delimited. Median area with one costal subquadriangular and one discoidal X-shaped patch. Postmedian line white, edged with dark brown, running from costal 3/4 to 5/6 of dorsum, arch-shaped. Subterminal area dark brown, distally with three white patches on costal half; one large subquadriangular white spot between CuA1-CuA2. Marginal band white, well-marked, distally with 6-7 dark brown spots. Fringes dirty white. Hindwing white.
MALE GENITALIA (FIG. 65)
Uncus 5/4 X tegumen arm length, medially narrowed, apex broad, duck-beak shaped. Gnathos projection 4/5 X uncus length, slender, with apical tip pointing downwards. Valva slender, narrow on basal 1/4, dorsal margin slightly convex, apex rounded; ventral process marked, slightly protruding downwards. Juxta diamond-shaped, with base slightly indented. Phallus straight. Vesica with one thin tubular cornutus with rounded tip.
FEMALE GENITALIA
Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES: Mindanao (Davao oriental: Mount Agtuuganon). Collected at an altitude of 1050 m.
DNA BARCODING
The species delimitation analysis recovered three different MOTUs from Luzon (Camarines Sur, Mountain Province), Leyte and Mindanao (one MOTU each). Unfortunately, the MOTU from Luzon contains only one female, precluding direct comparison with the MOTU from Mindanao (three males). The abdomen of the specimen from Leyte was lost in the DNA extraction. Hence only specimens from Mindanao are confidently assigned to this species.
ETYMOLOGY
The name originates from the Latin tenuis, e: narrow, slender and spina, ae: spine, referring to the thin cornutus on the vesica.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 8, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964