Glyphidocera spathae ADAMSKI, 2005, new species
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera spathae

description: <i>Glyphidocera spathae</i>, new species (Figs. 270–272, 377, Map 49) Diagnosis.— <i>Glyphidocera spathae</i>, <i>G. s c u t i c a e</i>, and <i>G. c o t i s</i> share abdominal sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, divergent costal furcae of the valva, and presence of several spinelike cornuti on the vesica of the aedeagus. <i>G. spathae</i> differs from the latter two species by having a setose gnathos, and dorsal strut of the tegumen with the arms constricted at midlength between the base of posteroventral margin and the base of uncus. Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with grayish yellow; outer surface of labial palpus dark brown intermixed with few grayish­yellow scales along apical margins of segments I–II; outer surface pale grayish yellow intermixed with few dark­brown scales; scape of antenna dark brown intermixed with few grayishyellow scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and grayish­yellow scales; male 4 th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6 [setiform scales associated with 4 th flagellomere missing]; proboscis pale grayish yellow. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with brown scales tipped with pale grayish yellow. Legs dark brown intermixed with few pale grayish­yellow scales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 377): Length 6.0– 6.3 mm (n = 2), grayish yellow intermixed with brown and dark­brown scales; costal margin dark brown intermixed with grayish­yellow scales; cell with 2 dark­brown, oblique spots, 1 spot near middle, 1 spot near distal end; marginal spots fused. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Gray. Abdomen (Fig. 270): Male with 5 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3. Anterior row of sex scales appear about ½ the size as the posterior 4 rows of sex scales. Male Genitalia (Figs. 271–272): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near 1 / 3, widened subapically, apex acuminate and setose; gnathos protuberant, setose, wide throughout length, apically upturned and densely setose; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing basally from a wide base, extending dorsally, gradually widening to base of uncus; costa of valva nearly straight from shallow depression beyond a slanted, basal, digitate process to apex; apex bifurcate; furcae slightly divergent, ventral furca slightly longer than dorsal furca; sacculus twisted apically slightly beyond midlength, constricting valva, forming a broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus with many spinelike cornuti, bearing a large, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a large, hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, F[in]ca de E. Rojas, 150 m, Prov[incia] Limón, COSTA RICA, E. Rojas, Dic. 1991, L­N­ 286000, 567500 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 550182 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 714 ” [yellow label]. Paratype 1 ɗ, “ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Est. Biol. La Selva, 50–150 m, 10 ° 26 'N, 84 °01'W, Jan. 1993, INBio­OET”, “ Ene. 1993, Arboleda, L0001”, “ CRI 001, 218977 ”, “Slide No. 899.” Distribution (Map 49): <i>Glyphidocera spathae</i> is known from two collecting sites in north­central Costa Rica, north of the Cordillera Central. Etymology: The species epithet <i>spathae</i> is derived from the Latin “spatha,” meaning spatula.
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 153-154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793