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Costasensora honeyi Fibiger 2010, new species

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Costasensora honeyi Fibiger, new species

(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

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 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2583.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094382

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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