3. Dragmatucha monticola Park & Karisch, sp. nov.

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Type specimen. Holotype: Male, Guinea, Mt. Nimba, ix 2010, coll. ZSM, gen slide no. 4270/Karisch, in ZSM.

Paratype: 1♂, Guinea, Mt. Nimba, ix 2010, coll. ZSM, in ZSM.

Diagnosis. Similar to D. mediolinea Park & Karisch, 2022 (from Ivory Coast), but distinguished by the narrower costal patch, the postmedian fascia being very weak or nearly absent, and the absence of yellowish-white fringes. In D. mediolinea, the costal patch is well-developed, triangular, and fringes with yellowish-white band beyond apex. The hindwing ground colour is darker with a small wedge-shaped costal patch and no yellowish-white basal line (in D. mediolinea, the costal patch extends to half the cell). The male genitalia resemble those of D. curvalis sp. nov. but the valva is shorter.

Description. Male (Figs 5A, B). Wingspan 11.5 mm.

Head: Shiny whitish dorsally. Antenna filiform; basal segment slightly broadened apically, dark brown; flagellum pale yellowish brown, annulated with dark-brown rings. Labial palpus arched; second palpomere slightly broadened, yellowish brown medially, shiny pale yellowish laterally; third palpomere as long as the second, greyish brown. Hind tibia yellowish white dorsally, soot brown in proximal half.

Thorax: Soot brown dorsally as tegula. Forewing ground colour soot brown; costa slightly convex around basal 1/3 and beyond 3/4, with a small, wedge-shaped yellowish-white costal patch at about 3/4; antemedian fascia narrow, yellowish white, strongly zigzagged; postmedian fascia weakly presented; termen nearly straight; fringes concolorous with forewing ground colour. Hindwing same as forewing ground colour, with a small, triangular, yellowish-white costal patch beyond 3/4; fringes concolorous with ground colour.

Abdomen (Fig. 5D): Soot brown dorsally, yellowish white laterally and ventrally; spinous zones on dorsal surface with rare spines.

Male genitalia (Figs 5C, C 1): Uncus slender, bent downward from beyond 2/3, with acute apex. Basal plate of gnathos triangular, with acute caudal apices; median process gently arched dorsally, with sharply pointed apex. Tegumen broad, weakly sclerotized, triangularly incised on anterior margin. Valva broadly expanded at base, deeply concave medially; ventral margin nearly straight, slightly sinuate; cucullus foot-shaped, produced apically, with rounded lower corner; sacculus weakly developed basally. Vinculum narrowly banded, heavily sclerotized. Juxta large, quadrate, slightly concave on caudal margin, with weak vertical ridge; caudal lobes absent.Aedeagus stout, as long as valva, slightly bent basal 1/4 ventrally; cornuti consisting of a bundle of several strong spines near basal 1/4, a large bundle of numerous spines and minute spinules beyond middle, and several short, strong spines apically.

Female unknown.

Distribution. Guinea (Nimba Mts.)

Etymology. From the Latin, montis (= mountain), and incola (= inhabitant), referring to the mountainous habitat. A noun in the nominative singular standing in apposition to the generic name.