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Tolpia montana Fibiger, 2007, new species

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Description

Tolpia montana Fibiger, new species

(Plate 2, figure 8; female genit. plate 22, figure 2)

Material examined.

Holotype: female, Philippines, Palawan, Mantalingajan, Pinigisan, 600 m, 13.ix.1961, leg. Noona Dan Exp. 61-62, caught in Malaise-trap inside forest, genit. prep. 3489 M. Fibiger. Coll. ZMUC.

Diagnosis.

Wingspan: 15 mm.

Transverse lines: black, suffused with brown; basal, antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal lines well marked, with black spot by costa: terminal line marked by black elongated dots.

Reniform: elongated, black.

Hindwing: brown.

Underside: unicolorous brown.

Abdomen: brown.

Female genitalia.

Ovipositor: quadrangular.

Anterior apophyses: length equal to that of posterior apophyses.

8 th abdominal segment: very narrow, ventrally fused with 7 th segment.

7 th abdominal segment: heavily sclerotised; position of ostium in middle of segment; two large, hollow, triangular flaps anteroventrally.

6 th segment: posterior part of segment heavily sclerotised and fused to 7 th segment; anterior part of 6 th segment less heavily sclerotised – similar to rest of abdomen.

Antrum: relatively long and large, tapered, coiling, heavily sclerotised, 6 X longer that wide.

Ductus bursae: membranous, 3 X as long as corpus bursae.

Corpus bursae: globular.

Differential diagnosis.

The female genitalia of T. montana are unique in the shape of the antrum.

Notes

Published as part of Fibiger, Michael, 2007, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1567 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5096260

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMUC
Event date
1961-09-13
Verbatim event date
1961-09-13
Scientific name authorship
Fibiger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Tolpia
Species
montana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Tolpia montana Fibiger, 2007