Scaeosopha minuta Sinev et Li 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 minuta

description: <i>Scaeosopha minuta</i> Sinev <i>et</i> Li sp. nov. (Figs. 12, 36, 55) <b>Description.</b> Adult (Fig. 12): Wingspan 8.5–10.0 mm. Head whitish yellow, leaden laterally, scale tuft behind compound eye grayish-yellow with black outer margin. Antenna with scape grayish-yellow; flagellum deep leaden dorsally, deep-yellow ventrally. Labial palpus grayish-yellow, distal half of second segment and entire third segment deep leaden ventrally. Thorax whitish yellow mottled leaden scales at middle. Tegula deep leaden, grayish-yellow along margins. Forewing whitish yellow, overlaid with black and brown spots, stripes and patches; costal margin with four black spots, the spot at base smallest, spots at 1/4 and 2/3 length larger; brown line from near base of fold arched upward and then extending along subcosta vein to second spot of first row; cell with an elliptical black spot at middle, with a round black spot at end; slender brown stripe along middle of cell on anterior margin, irregularly shaped dark-brown patch anterior to anterior corner of cell beneath; three black patches along above fold from basal 1/5 to 5/6, the third one at 5/6 smallest; beneath fold with three brown stripes; apex with a deep-brown spot; dorsum with a small black dot near base, with a large brown patch at 2/5 length; brown fascia from 2/3 length of costal margin to tornus, arched outward medially; termen brown; cilia whitish yellow mixed with brown. Hindwing and cilia deep-gray. Legs grayish-yellow except fore femur deep leaden on ventral surface. Abdomen brown dorsally except yellow at basal 1/4, whitish yellow ventrally. Male genitalia (Fig. 36): Brachia of uncus sclerotized, slightly curved; right brachium slightly longer than left one, hooked apically. Valva broad and short, rounded terminally, costa slightly concave, ventral margin straight; valvella finger-shaped, 3/4 length of valva, basal 3/4 uniformly wide, then gradually narrowed to apex, costal margin with a small process at 3/4 length. Anellus heavily sclerotized, gradually narrowed to roundly pointed apex, reaching 1/3 length of uncus brachium. Phallus slightly narrowed distally, coiled at middle, distal part membranous. Cornutus spine-shaped. Female genitalia (Fig. 55): Posterior apophysis about twice as long as anterior apophysis. Sterigma widely collar-shaped. Ductus bursae broad, slightly longer than posterior apophysis, crinkled longitudinally, with a large annular sclerite medially. Corpus bursae rounded, same length as ductus bursae; signa a pair of sclerotized stout teeth, with weakly sclerotized, irregularly shaped base. <b>Type material.</b> Holotype &amp;male;, <b>INDONESIA</b>: Mentawir River [1°03' N, 116°44' E], E. Borneo, Balikpapan, 50 m, x. [19]50, coll. A. M. R. Wegner, genitalia slide no. ZZWGW001 (RMNH, Leiden). Paratypes: 1 &amp;male;, same data as for holotype; 1 &amp;female;, <b>INDONESIA:</b> S. Celebes, 50 m, Bantimurung, 9– 18.viii.1949, coll. A. Diakonoff and Manis, genitalia slide no. ZZWGW002 (RMNH, Leiden). <b>Distribution.</b> Indonesia. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This new species resembles <i>S</i>. <i>hongkongensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, but can be distinguished from it by the smaller size, the eighth segment in male without pleural lobes, which are present in <i>S</i>. <i>hongkongensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is derived from the Latin <i>minutus</i> = small, in reference to the small size of the species.
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 16-17