Tactusa dohertyi Fibiger 2010, new species
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Description
(Plate 3, figure 3)
Material examined. Holotype: male, Indonesia, Java, Arjuno, leg. W. Doherty, coll. BMNH.
Taxonomic notes. T. dohertyi is a member of the nieukerkeni species-group, which has a blackish triangular or quadrangular patch between the antemedial and postmedial lines.
Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 10 mm.
Forewing: ground colour light brown, suffused with brown scales, with acutely-angled blackish patch in upper medial area and dark brown subterminal area; a blackish patch between reniform stigma and fringes (apo.) and five black dots, including that by apex, between medial quadrangular patch and apex (apo.).
Crosslines: only terminal line marked by interneural black spots.
Reniform stigma: white, inwardly outlined black.
Hindwing: dark grey, with very faint discal spot.
Underside: unicolorous grey.
Abdomen lost, male and female genitalia unknown.
Differential diagnosis. T. dohertyi differs from other Micronoctuidae from SE Asian and Oriental regions in unique forewing pattern described above.
Distribution. Known from one specimen from Indonesia, Java.
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10094388 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10094382 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/805E84172D33FFA8FFBFF97CEF587732 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/7C67FC6F2D29FFB2FF28F8CEECE8735D (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Scientific name authorship
- Fibiger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Tactusa
- Species
- dohertyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tactusa dohertyi FIBIGER, 2010