Published February 22, 2021 | Version v1
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Pseudopostega saturella Puplesis & Robinson 1999

  • 1. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  • 2. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos St. 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania. & remeikis. andrew @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9310 - 1112
  • 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 20013 - 7012, USA. & alma. solis @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6379 - 1004
  • 4. Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 KØbenhavn Ø, Denmark. & okarsholt @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6969 - 2549

Description

The saturella group

Externally, species are characterized by the dark brown fascia of the forewing (Fig. 1); creamish white or yellowish cream to ochreous yellow frontal tuft. In the male genitalia, the uncus is comprised of two short, rounded lateral lobes; the gnathos is uniquely-shaped, pointed apically and with a slender, hook-like projection basally; the vinculum is without a juxta, and heavily folded medially (Fig. 1). In the female genitalia, apophyses are long; anal papillae are unique, modified into a single, wide, short transverse lobe with a distinctive, trianglular process (Fig. 1); signum is strongly developed (P. javae and P. amphivittata) or weakly developed (P. saturella).

From other groups of the Oriental (or Neotropical) Pseudopostega, the saturella group is distinguished by the unique shape of the gnathos in the male genitalia and anal papillae with a distinctive, triangular process in the female genitalia.

Distribution. Currently the group is comprised of three species distributed in Thailand and Indonesia.

Notes

Published as part of Stonis, Jonas R., Remeikis, Andrius, Solis, M. Alma & Karsholt, Ole, 2021, Diagnostics and updated checklist of Oriental Pseudopostega (Opostegidae) including the matrona species group with a new, extralimital species discovered in the Mediterranean, pp. 341-360 in Zootaxa 4933 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4554946

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