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Tactusa pars Fibiger 2010, new species

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Tactusa pars Fibiger, new species

(Plate 4, figure 6; male genit. plate 14, figure 4; female genit. plate 23, figure 2)

Material examined. Holotype: female, Thailand West, Kanchannaburi, at River Kwai Resotel, 19– 22.vii.2003, leg & coll. M. Fibiger, later to be deposited in ZMUC.

Paratypes: 5 males, 1 female. 1 male with same data as holotype, but genit. prep. 4986 M. Fibiger; 1 male, W Thailand, Prov. Uthai Thani, Khao Nang Rum, 400 m, 17–18.xi.1985, leg. M.G. Allen, BM 1986-74, genit. prep. 3768 M. Fibiger; 1 male, 1 female, Thailand N, 30 km N Mae Hong Son, Karen village, 1100 m, 16.vii.2003, genit. preps 4985 and 4991 M. Fibiger; 1 Malaysia, West Pahang, Genting Tea Estate, 2000 ft., 6.xii.1985, leg. H.S. Barlow, BM 198 -, genit. prep. 3767 M. Fibiger; 1 W Malaysia, Fraser’s Hill Steakhouse, 18.vi.1992, leg. M. Lödl, genit. prep. 4131 M. Fibiger. Colls MF, BMNH, and NMW.

Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 10–11 mm.

Forewing: ground colour yellow, with very large triangular patch, including fringes, that extends from antemedial point on costa, to apex and to tornal edge; light-brown triangular patch present subapically by costa (apo.).

Crosslines: parts of postmedial and subterminal lines present, whitish; terminal line indicated by blackish brown interneural spots; parts of fringes basally whitish, together forming a line.

Reniform stigma: hardly traceable.

Hindwing: dark grey, with very faint discal spot.

Underside: unicolorous grey.

Abdomen: grey, with black crest dorsally on first segment; that of female with yellow apical tuft.

Male genitalia. Tegumen: relatively strongly built.

Vinculum: well built.

Saccus: short, strongly built, broadly U shaped.

Ampulla: forming a cross with axis of valva; prominently asymmetrical, broadest by valva; right ampulla much larger, with a sickle-like long, flat process (apo.).

Digitus: present; small; apically rounded; heavily sclerotised (apo.).

Juxta and anellus plate: asymmetrical; fused; rounded; with a deep cleft for phallus (apo.).

Phallus: coecum relatively long, pointed; broad at ductus ejaculatorius; tapered smoothly throughout, and curved upwards (apo.).

Vesica: unarmed.

Female genitalia. Ovipositor: quadrangular with rounded corners.

Posterior apophyses: 1.5 times longer than anterior apophyses and ovipositor.

Anterior apophyses: slightly longer than 8 th abdominal segment.

8 th abdominal segment: sclerotised part ventro-posteriorly close; anteriorly wide (apo.)

Ostium: displaced to left.

Antrum: very short, tapered (apo.).

Ductus bursae: membranous, relatively short, narrow, coiled; as long as diameter of corpus bursae.

Appendix bursae: arising medially from ductus bursae (apo.).

Corpus bursae: large, globular.

Signum: cross shaped.

Differential diagnosis. T. pars differs from other members of second half of species-group in large blackish patch, with a triangular yellow patch by costa; in male genitalia, in shape of ampullae, right one with a very long, curved, flat process; large process of ampulla; in female genitalia, in shape of 8 th abdominal segment; equal length of ductus and corpus bursae.

Distribution. T. pars known from West Thailand, from North to South, and extends to western Malaysia.

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 pages 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094382

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM , MF, BMNH, NMW , ZMUC
Material sample ID
BM 198 , BM 1986-74
Event date
1985-11-17 , 1985-12-06 , 2003-07-19
Verbatim event date
1985-11-17/18 , 1985-12-06/2003-07-16 , 2003-07-19/22
Scientific name authorship
Fibiger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Tactusa
Species
pars
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Tactusa pars FIBIGER, 2010