Parkiana adelella ( Viette, 1955 ), 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 : 155-156

Parkiana adelella ( Viette, 1955) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 1 A–E)

Lecithocera adelella Viette, 1955a: 110 . TL: Madagascar, near Maroantsetra.

Idiopteryx adella (sic!); Park, 2018: 1085.

Type. 1♂ (holotype), North-East Madagascar, near Maroantsetra, Ambodivoangy forest, 23–27.iii.1952, P. Viette leg.; Muséum Paris, Mission P. Viette (Sept. 1951 - Mar. 1952); Lecithocera adelella n. sp., Holotype ♂, P. Viette; genitalia: prep. P. Viette no. 2838.

Adults ( Figs. 1A, B ). Wingspan, 16 mm. The antenna and the forewing shape are well in accordance with those of the genus Parkiana , and the hind wing venation with M 3 and CuA 1 coincident. The male genitalia are similar to those of Thubdora with narrowly elongated uncus and similar shape of the valva.Abdominal segments have spinose zones on dorsal surface ( Fig. 1E ).

Male genitalia ( Figs. 1 C–D): See also the line drawing given by Viette (1955, Fig. 32). Uncus broad at base and narrower toward apex. Valva broad basally, deeply concave on costal margin. Juxta with small, triangular laterocaudal processes. Aedeagus stout, with more than 10 conic spines.

Distribution. Madagascar (East) (Viette, 1955a).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Parkiana adelella (Viette, 1955), comb. nov.: A, holotype; B, labels; C, male genitalia, prep. P. Viette no. 2838; D, ditto, aedeagus; E, ditto, abdomen. Scale bar for the genitalia and aedeagus: 0.5 mm.