Thubdora afropyralidis Park 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Mey, Wolfram
name: Koo, Jun-Mo
name: Prins, Jurate De
name: Akite, Perpetra
name: Cho, Soowon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Thubdora
Thubdora afropyralidis

description: 1. Thubdora afropyralidis Park, sp. nov.
(Figs. 2 A–E)
Type specimen. Holotype: female, Uganda, Kabarole District., Kibale National Park, 36N TF 0582 6208, 1500 m, 19–24 x 2014, leg. Leif Aarvik & Knud Larsen; gen. slide no. CIS-7251, COI barcode CBNU080, deposited in NHMO. Paratypes: 1♀, Western, Kibale Forest, Kanyawara 1520 m, 0°33’39’’N 30°21’27’’E, 23 x 2014, leg. D.J.L. Agassiz; gen. slide no. CIS-7094, COI barcode CBNU076, in NHMUK. Paratypes: 2♀, Uganda, Kibale National Park, Biol. Field Station, 19–24 xi 2014, LF, leg. W. Mey; gen. slide no. CIS-7001, COI barcode CBNU053; gen. slide no. CIS-7038, COI barcode CBNU054, in MfN.
Diagnosis. The new species is described only from females, and its status as a new species was confirmed by the comparison of COI sequences among allied species. The female genitalia can be distinguished from those of T. fruticosa, Park, sp. nov., by the narrower, longer ductus bursae and the hood-shaped plate of the signum.
Description. Female (Figs. 2 A–D). Forewing length 10.5 mm. Head: Vertex dark purplish brown, with light orange erect scales laterally. Antenna (Fig. 2B) serrate, shorter than forewing; basal segment elongated, dilated distally, pale orange, speckled with dark-brown scales dorsally; flagellum light orange with dark-brown annulations in basal 1/4, dark brown medially, orange white in distal 1/3. Second segment of labial palpus thickened, saber-shaped, dark brown dorsally light orange ventrally; 3 rd segment slender, strongly upturned, as long as 2 nd segment, light orange dorsally, dark brown ventrally.
Thorax: Notum and tegula dark purplish brown. Hind tibia dark brown on outer surface with orange-white band beyond middle and apex; orange white on inner surface; first tarsus dark brown, other tarsi orange white. Forewing ground color yellowish brown to dark brown, with purplish iridescence; antemedian fascia inconspicuous; costa slightly arched, lacking costal patch; apex obtuse; termen oblique; fringe concolorous with ground color, with narrow, orange-white basal line, usually inconspicuous; venation (Fig. 2D) with R 1 strongly bent outwardly near base, R 3 and R 4 stalked for basal 2/5, R 4 reaching before apex; R 5 absent; M 1 close to R 3+4 at base; M 2 arising from lower corner of cell; M 3 parallel to M 2; M 3, CuA 1 and CuA 2 on a common stalk. Hind wing yellowish brown.
Abdomen (Fig. 2C): Purplish brown to brown, lighter posteriorly. Female genitalia (Fig. 2E):Abdominal sternite VII deeply concave in U-shape medially, as deep as nearly half the length of segment VII. Ostium bursae slightly concave with acute latero-caudal processes. Antrum elongated, connecting membranous swollen posterior part of ductus bursae. Ductus bursae narrow, gradually broadened posteriorly, broadened in anterior half; ductus seminalis arising from near middle of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae ovate; signum large, hood-shaped, with broad, transverse groove medially; posterior margin forming a long, bell-shaped expansion; anterior margin shortly produced, convex medially.
Male unknown.
Distribution. Uganda (Kabarole Distr.).
Etymology. This species name is derived from the Latin, afer (= Africa) + pyralis (= moth).
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Mey, Wolfram, Koo, Jun-Mo, Prins, Jurate De, Akite, Perpetra & Cho, Soowon, 2020, Fourteen new species of the genus Thubdora Park, 2018 (Lepidoptera Gelechioidea: Lecithoceridae) from Uganda, and three new combinations in Ptilothyris Walsingham, 1897 from DR Congo, pp. 451-487 in Zootaxa 4759 (4) on pages 454-455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3740949