Glyphidocera zophocrossa Meyrick 1929
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera zophocrossa

description: <i>Glyphidocera zophocrossa</i> Meyrick, 1929 (Figs. 210–212, 357, Map 38) <i>Glyphidocera zophocrossa</i> Meyrick, 1929: 530; Becker, 1984: 41 (checklist). Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera zophocrossa</i> is most similar to <i>G. guaroa</i> from which it can be distinguished by having the dorsal strut of tegumen constricted near midlength and the dorsal furca of costal valva extending beyond the ventral furca. Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brownish yellow; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margin of segment II, inner surface pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape of antenna pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of pale brownish­yellow and brown 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 pale brownish yellow. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown basally, pale brownish yellow distally. Legs brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 357): Length 5.9 –6.0 mm (n = 3), pale brownish yellow intermixed with pale yellow and few brown scales; cell with 2 small, brown spots, 1 spot near middle, 1 spot near distal end [specimens with spots present or absent]. Undersurface brown with pale brownish­yellow scales along costa and between CuP and anal margin. Hindwing: Pale gray. Abdomen (Fig. 210): Male with 5 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Male Genitalia (Figs. 211–212): Uncus elongate, broadly constricted above a wide base, gradually widened apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing midway between posteroventral margin, gradually widening to base of uncus; costa of valva gradually upturned broadly from basal process to dorsal furca; apex widely bifurcate, furcae slightly convergent apically; dorsal furca falcate, large, about 6 times longer 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 denticulate, bearing a large crescent­shaped apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Type Examined: Lectotype ɗ, designated by Clarke, “ Trinidad,. 2.28.”, “BM Slide No. 6117.” [BMNH]. Other Specimens Examined: (3 ɗ): “ COSTA RICA, Prov[incia] Limón, Sector Cedrales de la Rita, 3 km N del Puente Río Suerte, Ruta Puerto Lindo, 10 m, Oct. 1996, E. Rojas, L­ 278600, 566500, # 44661 ”, “ CRI 002, 492676 ”, “Slide No. 852 ”; “ CRI 002, 492671 ”, “Slide No. 853 ”; “ CRI 002, 492794 ”, (2 in INBio, 1 in USNM). Distribution (Map 38): <i>Glyphidocera zophocrossa</i> is known from one collecting site in north­central Costa Rica, north of the Cordillera Central, and from specimens collected from Trinidad off the coast of Venezuela (Meyrick, 1929).
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 121-122, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793
description: {"references": ["Meyrick, E. (1929) Exotic Microlepidoptera, 3, 481 - 544.", "Becker, V. O. (1984) Blastobasidae. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part I, Microlepidoptera-Immoidea. Dr. W. Junk, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 41 - 42."]}