Tarsozeuzera pricki Yakovlev & Hulsbosch, 2023

Yakovlev, Roman V. & Hulsbosch, Ramon, 2023, New species of genus Tarsozeuzera Schoorl, 1990 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae) from Andaman Islands (India) with world catalogue of the Genus, Ecologica Montenegrina 63, pp. 79-85 : 80

Tarsozeuzera pricki Yakovlev & Hulsbosch , sp. n.

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Material. Holotype, male, Indien, Andaman Islands , [North Andaman], Ramnagar, [~ 13.30677°N / 92.94105°E], 25−30.iv.2008 (private collection of Ramon Hulsbosch, Echt) . Paratypes: 2 males, same locality and data (private collection of Ramon Hulsbosch, Echt) .

Description. Male. Antennae goblet-like, proximal half with double long setae, distal half simple, filiform. Tegulae and patagia with silver-greyish sputtering. Length of fore wing 19 mm. Fore wing elongated, lightgrey throughout all wing area, outer and rear margins light-creamy with thin black reticulated pattern. Hind wing short, grey, anal angle with small light-creamy portion with thin black reticulated pattern.

Male genitalia are typical for this genus. Uncus trapezoidal, gradually narrowing from base to apex, apically slightly elongated, semicircular; gnathos arms short, ribbon-like; gnathos reduced; valve very narrow basally, strongly extended distally, leaf-like, abdominal edge (in medium third) with small semicircular notch; juxta saddle-like with leaf-like lateral processes, strongly fused with lateral surfaces of phallus; saccus very wide, semicircular; phallus slightly shorter than valve, very thick, strongly curved on border between medium and distal thirds, distal third of phallus with strongly expressed folds, vesica with robust finger-like cornutus.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. In the external characters and size, the new species is mostly close to T. fuscipars , widely spread in South and South-Eastern Asia, from which is differs in a series of characters:

- the trapezoidal uncus, gradually narrowing from the basal end to apex (in T. fuscipars , the uncus has parallel edges);

- the phallus, slightly shorter than valve (in T. fuscipars , the phallus is longer than valve).

Etymology. New species named after Mr. Marcel Prick (Heerlen, the Netherlands) well known amateur entomologist and a collector of European butterflies and moths since 1965.

Distribution. India, Andaman Islands.

Catalogue of the Genus

Tarsozeuzera Schoorl, 1990

Type species, by original designation − Zeuzera kochi Semper, 1896 .

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Figures 1−3. Tarsozeuzera pricki Yakovlev & Hulsbosch, sp. n., adult males: 1. Holotype; 2. Paratype; 3. Paratype.