Spiniola hanaro Park 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Kyu-Tek
name: Koo, Jun-Mo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Spiniola
Spiniola hanaro

description: Spiniola hanaro Park, sp. nov.
LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8624065E-8690-45F1-A24C-8EA73F96FF32
(Figs. 2A–J)
Type material. Holotype. [Malawi] male, Ruo Gorge, Mulanje District, Southern Region, Malawi, 915 m, 7. ii. 2004 (leg. L. Aarvik), gen. slide no. CIS-7442, wings slide no. KJM0215, deposited in NHMO.
Diagnosis. See diagnosis of the genus in the present article.
Description. Adult (Figs. 2A, C–F). Wingspan 12.0 mm. Head: Vertex light brown with grayish-orange erect scales laterally. Antenna 0.8 times shorter than forewing; scape grayish orange with dark brown scales on outer surface; flagellum light yellow throughout, without annulations, finely ciliate ventrally. 2 nd segment of labial palpus thickened, dark brown on outer surface, grayish orange on inner surface; 3 rd segment 0.8 times shorter than 2 nd segment, dark brown on outer surface, grayish orange on inner surface (Figs. 2C, D). Thorax: Notum dark brown with light brown tegula. Forewing slightly dilated distally, without any markings; ground color light brown; costa slightly arched in basal 3/5, then nearly straight, curved toward apex in distal 1/5; apex obtuse; termen slightly oblique, not sinuate; fringe concolorous with ground color; venation (Fig. 2G) with R 1 arising from basal 3/5 of discal cell; R 2 arising near the upper corner of cell; distance between origins of R 2 and R 3+4 about 3.6 times shorter than that of R 1 and R 2; R 3 stalked with R 4 for about basal 1/4; R 4 reaching before apex; R 5 absent; M 1 remote from R 3+4 at base; M 2 absent; M 3 remote from CuA 1+2; CuA 1 and CuA 2 shortly stalked; 1A+2A shortly forked at base; discal cell closed. Hindwing slightly broader than forewing; ground color brownish gray, with nearly straight costal margin beyond basal 1/3; apex obtuse; termen slightly concave medially; fringe concolorous with ground color; venation with M 2 absent; M 3 stalked with CuA 1 for basal 1/4; discal cell weakly opened. Hindtibia grayish orange with concolorous rough scales (Figs. 2E, F). Abdomen (Fig. 2J): Spinose zones about 4 times wider than length in posterior half of each II–VII tergite. Anterior margin of VIII tergite heavily sclerotized, narrowed concavely towards anteromedial apex.
Male genitalia (Figs. 2H, I): Uncus elongated, exceeding apex of basal plate of gnathos. Median process of gnathos gradually narrowed, slightly bent in apical 1/7, with pointed apex. Tegumen weakly sclerotized, concave into inverted funnel-shape at anterior medial margin. Valva broad at base, slightly narrower toward cucullus, with small expansion at base anteriorly; costa extended at base; cucullus shortly developed, less than half of basal part of valva, thumb-like, upturned, with dense setae mainly along ventral margin. Saccus heavily sclerotized, spinelike, sharply pointed. Juxta bowl-shaped, slightly concave dorso-medially, with one pair of caudal processes arising from one on each latero-medial margin; latero-caudal process slender with rounded apex having three setae, weakly sclerotized, nearly same length as juxta. Aedeagus stout, slightly shorter than valva, narrowed at distal 1/5; cornuti consisting of 9 strong, long spines.
Female unknown.
Distribution. Malawi (Mulanje).
Etymology. This species name is derived from a Korean term, hanaro, meaning “all together”.
description: Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek & Koo, Jun-Mo, 2022, Description of Spiniola hanaro Park, gen. and sp. nov., and three new species of Torodora Meyrick, 1894 (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae, Torodorinae) from the Afrotropical Region, pp. 576-586 in Zootaxa 5092 (5) on page 578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.5.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5896455