Costasensora honeyi Fibiger 2010, new species
Authors/Creators
Description
(Plate 6, figure 8; male genit. plate 16, figure 4)
Material examined. Holotype: male, Malaysia, Sarawak, Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, site 25. -. iv.1977, 427550, 900 m, leg. R. G.S. Exped. 1977-78, J.D. Holloway et al., BM 1978-206, genit. prep. 3205 M. Fibiger, coll. BMNH.
Diagnosis. Imago (external). Wingspan: 11 mm.
Labial palps: porrect; second segment brown outside, white beige inside, roughly scaled vertically; third segment 1/3 of second, narrow, white beige.
Head, patagia, anterior part of tegulae, prothorax, basal part of costa, costal part of medial area, and terminal area, including fringes: black; costal medial area quadrangular.
Forewing ground colour: whitish yellow.
Abdomen: grey; with dorsal tuft on basal segment.
Crosslines: untraceable, except for terminal line marked by black interneural dots.
Reniform stigma: indistinct, small, white.
Hindwing: grey, with indistinct discal spot.
Underside: forewing grey brown; hindwing grey, with discal spot.
Male genitalia. Tegumen: extremely short snd stout, curved in semicircle; peniculus curved (apo.).
Vinculum: extremely stout, very broad; together with saccus and juxta circular; asymmetrical (apo.).
Saccus: extremely stout; broad; V shaped; with a medial crest to ventral tip (apo.).
Valvae: asymmetrical; broadest apically (apo.).
Editum: as long as valva; semi-cylindrical; setose, parallel with costa; attached to valva along vinculum, base of costa, and along ventral edge of valva (apo.).
Clasper: an extension of ventral margin of valva (apo.).
Digitus: commalike; positioned along apical part of costa; broadest apically (apo.).
Juxta: large, with medial crest; left part apically quadrangular; right part apically pointed (apo.).
Anellus plate: prominently asymmetrical; structure free from diaphragm; basally with lateral hornlike processes; distally very long, spatulate; with subapical crest; with rounded apical extensions (apo.).
Phallus: extremely long, narrow and curved; coecum 3 times longer than wide, apically rounded; broadest at ductus ejaculatorius; pointed at tip (apo.).
Vesica: armed with a small, narrow, spikelike cornutus (apo.).
Female genitalia. Unknown. [presumably with an extremely long and narrow, heavily sclerotised antrum, - see following genus}.
Distribution. C. honeyi known only from Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak.
Notes
Files
Files
(3.0 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:0f413eadf60e2a442575a76e8cd477ed
|
3.0 kB | Download |
System files
(11.5 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:3164f1a2e32f7d79b2cf5234fb2df689
|
11.5 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10094394 (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/7C67FC6F2D07FF9DFF28FA97EB537528 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R, BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BM 1978-206
- Scientific name authorship
- Fibiger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Costasensora
- Species
- honeyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Costasensora honeyi FIBIGER, 2010