Tactusa pars Fibiger 2010, new species
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(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.
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10094390 (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)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/7C67FC6F2D12FF8AFF28FAA3EACD7331 (URL)
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