Dichomeris ochriella Park & Bae & Zhao & Li 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Bae, Yang-Seop
name: Zhao, Shengnan
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Dichomeris
Dichomeris ochriella

description: Dichomeris ochriella Park & Li, sp. nov.
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(Figs 17, 41)
Type material. Holotype ♂, VIETNAM: Vinh Phuc Prov.: Tam Dao Nat. Park, 950 m, 24 v 2007, leg. KT Park, gen. slide no. CIS-6277. Paratype: 1♂, same data as the holotype, 5 v 2005, gen slide no. CIS-6690. All types in NIBR.
Description. Adult (Fig. 17). Wingspan 17.0 mm. Head grayish yellow dorsally; frons pale yellow. Ocellus present. Antenna with scape yellowish brown on dorsal surface, yellowish white on ventral surface; flagellum alternately yellow and yellowish brown dorsally. Second segment of labial palpus thick, with triangular scale tuft dorsally, ochreous yellow on outer surface, pale yellow on inner surface; 3rd segment slender, smoothly clothed, shorter than 2nd segment, pale yellow except ochreous yellow on ventral surface. Thorax and tegula yellow, mixed with yellowish-brown scales; mesothoracic anepisternum without hair-pencils in male. Fore- and midleg yellowish brown on outer surface, yellowish white on inner surface, tarsi with tarsomeres yellowish white apically on outer surface; hindleg pale yellow, tibia clothed with long yellowish scales. Forewing ground color pale yellow, scattered with yellowish-brown scales especially below costa from basal 2/5 and below fold; a broad, yellowish-brown fascia with arched anterior margin above fold; costa arched in basal 1/3 then straight; apex more or less acute; termen oblique, slightly convex medially; fringe yellowish brown with yellowish-white narrow basal line. Hind wing brownish gray; fringe concolorous with ground color, with narrow yellowish-white basal line.
Male genitalia (Fig. 41): Uncus extremely large, more or less triangular distally, with a longitudinal ridge mesially; anterior margin concave in semicircular. Gnathos strongly bent in basal 1/3, with acute apex; culcitula triangularly rounded on posterior margin, densely spinous. Valva slightly longer than tegumen plus uncus, broadly expanded in distal half with rounded apex; free ventral lobe short, about 1/5 the length of valva, with rounded apex, setose. Setose patch short, irregular-shaped, inflated distally. Vinculum about 2/3 the length of tegumen plus uncus; lateral lobes arisig from distal 4/5 of vinculum, about 1/2 the length of vinculum. Saccal region broad, produced in triangular on anterior margin. Sica single, stout, about 2/3 the length of vinculum. Aedeagus shuttle-shaped, narrowed in basal 1/3, blunt at apex; one sclerotized internal lobe arising from zone, gradually narrowed to sharp apex, slightly exceeding apex of aedeagus; two sclerotized lobes from zone on ventral surface, about 1/3 length of aedeagus, symmetrical, sharp and excurvate apically.
Female unknown.
Distribution. Vietnam (Vinh Phuc).
Diagnosis. This species is similar to Dichomeris neixiangensis Li & Wang, 1999, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the forewing with yellowish ground color; the lateral lobe of the vinculum gradually narrowed in basal 1/3, the aedeagus having one clerotized internal lobe. In D. neixiangensis, the forewing ground color is yellowish brown; the lateral lobe of the vinculum is gradually narrowed to apex, and the aedeagus has no clerotized internal lobe.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin prefix, -ochro (= ochreous), with a Latin suffix, – ellus, referring to the ochreous yellow fascia in the forewing.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Bae, Yang-Seop, Zhao, Shengnan & Li, Houhun, 2020, Thirteen new species of genera Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 and Helcystogramma Zeller, 1877 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae) with twenty-one newly recorded species from Vietnam, pp. 435-461 in Zootaxa 4821 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4400933