Scaeosopha grandannulata Li et Zhang 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Houhun
name: Zhang, Zhiwei
name: Sinev, Sergey Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cosmopterigidae
Scaeosopha
Scaeosopha grandannulata

description: <i>Scaeosopha grandannulata</i> Li <i>et</i> Zhang sp. nov. (Figs. 25, 49, 61) <b>Description.</b> Adult (Fig. 25): Wingspan 14.0–14.5 mm. Head yellow, scale tuft behind compound eye tinged with black posteriorly. Antenna brown. Labial palpus with second segment whitish-yellow; third segment deep-brown except distal 1/3 and basal 1/3 whitish-yellow on dorsal surface. Thorax and tegula dark-brown tinged with yellow. Forewing whitish-yellow, overlaid with dark-brown spots and patches; dark-brown patches along costal margin; elliptical ocherous brown spots at middle of cell on anterior margin, at end of cell and at 3/4 length of fold respectively; several short brown streaks along veins from outer margin of cell to before apex; about six dark-brown spots from distal 1/5 of costal margin to tornus; area between fold and dorsum covered with dense dark-brown scales; terminal line deep yellowish-brown; cilia grayish-white, yellowish-brown at tornus. Hindwing and cilia yellowishbrown. Fore leg whitish-yellow, tarsus black on outer side; mid and hind legs yellow, distal three tarsomeres of mid leg black. Abdomen dark-brown. Male genitalia (Fig. 49): Brachia of uncus slender, with hooked tip. Anterior margin of tegumen srongly concave mesially. Valva broad and short, with numerous commalike processes on ventral half; costa arched, ventral margin nearly straight; valvella finger-shaped, longer than valva in length, sparsely setose, slightly narrowed mesially. Anellus stout, cone-shaped, with numerous commalike processes in distal half. Phallus twisted, weakly sclerotized; cornutus composed of bundle of spicules extending from 2/3 to 5/6 length of phallus. Female genitalia (Fig. 61): Posterior apophysis about twice as long as anterior apophysis. Sterigma triangular, straight anteriorly, pointed posteriorly. Ductus bursae twice length of posterior apophysis; ductus seminalis arising from about middle of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae elliptical, about half as long as ductus bursae; signa linear, sclerotized, placed posteriorly. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype &amp;male;, <b>BRUNEI</b>: Rampayoh R. [4°29' N, 114°29' E], LP 291B, GR 951801, Lowland dipterocarp forest, 150 ft., 11–15.iv.1988, G. S. Robinson, BM 1988-160, BMNH Microlep. slide no. 31010, Houhun Li (BMNH, London). Paratypes: <b>BRUNEI</b>: 1 &amp;female;, same data as for holotype, BMNH Microlep. slide no. 31025, Houhun Li (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;male;, Rampayoh R., LP 195B, GR 960785, Lowland dipterocarp forest, 100 m., 26–29.ix.1997, G. S. Robinson, BMNH (E) 1997-261 (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Rampayoh R., LP 195, GR 960785, Lowland dipterocarp forest, 300 ft., 11–19.iii.1989, G. S. Robinson, BM 1989-76, BMNH Microlep. slide no. 31009 (&amp;female;), Houhun Li (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;male;, Rampayoh R., LP 195, GR 960785, Lowland dipterocarp forest, 300 ft., 21–24.ix.1992, G. S. Robinson, Brunei-Malaysia, BM 1993-2 (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;male;, 13 km W of Bandar SB, Kampong Katimanar, secondary forest, 10 m., 24.Vi.1991, G. S. Robinson, Malaysia-Brunei, BM 1991-134 (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;female;, Ulu Temburong, LP 298, Lowland forest, 1000 ft., 19–22.ii.1982, G. S. Robinson, BM 1982-156 (BMNH, London); 2 &amp;male;, Ulu Temburong, LP 298, GR 838892, 26–30.iv.1989, G. S. Robinson, BM 1989-129 (BMNH, London). <b>MALAYSIA</b>: 1 &amp;male;, W. Malaysia: Fraser’s Hill, Gap, 850 m, 2–3.xi.1989, G. S. Robinson &amp; M. A. Tobin, BM 1989-269, BMNH Microlep. slide no. 31020, Houhun Li (BMNH, London). <b>INDONESIA</b>: 1 &amp;male;, N. Sumatra, Prapat, 1150 m., 28. v.1.–vii.1984, E. Diehl, BM 1988-7, BMNH Microlep. slide no. 31024, Houhun Li (BMNH, London); 1 &amp;male;, Sulawesi Tenggara, N slope Gn Watuwila, 21.x.1989, at light, coll. R. de Jong &amp; J. Huisman / S 8915, 3 km SW Sanggona dry secondary forest on sandy soil, along Sg Mokowu, 200 m, genitalia slide no. ZZWGW005 (RMNH, Leiden). <b>Distribution.</b> Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This new species is similar to <i>S</i>. <i>dentivalvula</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in the male genitalia, but can be separated from it by the valva having numerous commalike processes on ventral half, but lacking the toothlike ventroapical process. In <i>S</i>. <i>dentivalvula</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, the valva has commalike processes in the distal part on the ventral half and bears a ventroapical toothlike process (Fig. 47). <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is derived from the Latin prefix <i>grandi-</i> = stout, and the word <i>annulatus</i> = annular, in reference to the stout anellus.
description: Published as part of <i>Li, Houhun, Zhang, Zhiwei &amp; Sinev, Sergey Yu., 2012, Review of the genus Scaeosopha Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Scaeosophinae) in the world, with descriptions of sixteen new species, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3322</i> on pages 27-28