Parkiana, Cho, 2020

Park, Kyu-Tek, Koo, Jun-Mo & Minet, Joël, 2020, Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), Zootaxa 4845 (2), pp. 151-190 : 155

Genus PARKIANA Cho, 2020

Type species: Parkiana matutinalis Cho & Agassiz, 2020b: 275 (nec Cho & Agassiz, 2020a: 108).

The genus Parkiana Cho was recently established from Madagascar ( Cho et al., 2020b). It is characterized by the following diagnostic characters, which permit to distinguish it from allied genera in the subfamily Torodorinae : flagellum of the antenna usually thickened and flattened in basal 1/3, then creamy white medially and dark brown in apical 1/5 (colouring homogeneous in this genus, while usually characteristic of species in other genera); forewing narrowly elongated; ground colour dark yellowish-brown; forewing venation with R 2 and R 3 merged together; R 4 and R 5 stalked or R 5 absent; M 3 free; CuA 1 and CuA 2 stalked; hind wing venation with M 2 present and M 3 usually merged with CuA 1. The male genitalia are similar to those of Thubdora Park or Torodora Meyrick.

The following four species are assigned to this genus. The fourth species, P. radamella (Viette, 1968) , comb. nov. has a distinctly shortened hind wing with rounded termen, and thus differs from the other three species of the genus. It is tentatively placed in Parkiana herein, but further investigations are needed to clarify its generic position (including DNA sequence study, which requires fresh material).