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Tactusa dohertyi Fibiger 2010, new species

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Tactusa dohertyi Fibiger, new species

(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.

Notes

Published as part of FIBIGER, MICHAEL, 2010, Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Part 3, Taxonomy of the Tactusinae, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 2583 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094382

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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