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Torodora kambanella

  • 1. Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea;
  • 2. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644 Korea.
  • 3. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.

Description

Torodora kambanella (Viette, 1986)

(Figs. 9 A–F)

Lecithocera kambanella Viette, 1986: 114. TL: Zahamena National Park.

Torodora kambanella; Park 2018: 1085.

Type. 1♂ (holotype), East Madagascar, near 3 rd Integral Natural Reserve [Zahamena National Park], road to Manakambahiny East, near Nosivola, alt. 1,000 m, 16 xi 1954, P. Viette leg.; genitalia: prep. P. Viette no. 3810.

Adult (Figs. 9A, B). Wingspan, 18 mm. The species is characterized by the trapezoidal blackish antemedian band discontinued to inner margin, and triangular blackish costal patch developed in 2/3 of costa on the forewing. The hind wing venation has M 3 stalked with CuA 1 at distal 1/5 (Fig. 9C). The abdomen has broad spinose zones on dorsal surface (Fig. 9F).

Male genitalia (Figs. 9D, E): See the line drawing given by Viette (1986, Fig. 10). Uncus long, elongate, narrowed apically. Basal plate of gnathos elongated with round apex. Valva elongated with spatulate cucullus; cucullus broadened distally with round apex. Aedeagus as long as valva, globular at base; cornuti consist of a long sac with numerous spinules and heavily sclerotized, shorter plate.

Remarks. This species was previously transferred from Lecithocera to Torodora by Park (2018).

Distribution. Madagascar (East) (Viette, 1986).

Notes

Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Koo, Jun-Mo & Minet, Joël, 2020, Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4845 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406460

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1954-11-16
Verbatim event date
1954-11-16
Scientific name authorship
Viette
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lecithoceridae
Genus
Torodora
Species
kambanella
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Torodora kambanella (Viette, 1986) sec. Park, Koo & Minet, 2020

References

  • Viette, P. E. L. (1986) Nouveaux Microlepidopteres de Madagascar (Oecophoridae et Gelechiidae) (New species of Malagasy Microlepidoptera-Oecophoridae and Gelechiidae). Bulletin mensuel de la Societe linneenne de Lyon, 55 (4), 109 - 118. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / linly. 1986.10753
  • Park, K. - T. (2018) A new genus Thubdora Park, gen. nov. and seven new species of the subfamily Torodorinae (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from Cameroon and Rep. of Congo, Africa. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21, 1085 - 1093. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. aspen. 2018.07.018