Tipulamima hesperia, Bartsch & Sáfián, 2022

Bartsch, Daniel & Sáfián, Szabolcs, 2022, Taxonomic changes and review of the genera Tipulamima Holland, 1893 and Macrotarsipodes Le Cerf, 1916 stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Sesiinae), Zootaxa 5094 (1), pp. 103-128 : 114

Tipulamima hesperia sp. nov.

( Figs 18–20 , 31 )

Holotype ♂ ( Figs 18–19 , 31 ): “ Guinea, 700m, / Nimba Mts. , SFMG concession / area ( Société des Mines de / Fer de Guinée) Cité 1, / 7°42'02.83"N, 8°23'58.60''W, / 17-25.May.2017, General coll. / Sáfián, Sz., leg. / ANHRT: 2017.36”; “ANHRTUK 00029057” (Genitalia examined. SAFI00248) ( ANHRT).

Paratypes. 1♂, same data as holotype (ANHRTUK 00029057) ( ANHRT) ; 1♂ ( Fig. 20 ), “ Ghana, / Kumasi u.s.r., / Buroburo, / 9.Nov.1975, / interior ~13h, / conf. A.B.Starn ” ( RMCA) .

Etymology. From hesperios hesperios (ancient greek = west, western). The name of this species refers to its occurrence in the western part of the distrubution area of Tipulamima .

Description. Alar expanse 26–28 mm, forewing 11.5–12.0 mm, antenna 9 mm and body length 15–16 mm. Head: labial palpus orange-yellow, dorsally with second palpomere in distal half and third entirely mixed with dark brown scales; frons grey with steel blue gloss, laterally white; vertex glossy black with some orange scales near base of antenna and narrow orange spot between antenna and ocellus; pericephalic scales orange; antenna black with strong steel blue gloss, scape ventrally orange. Thorax: dorsally glossy black, with red stripe dorsally instead of dorso-medially and some red scales dorso-laterally on mesothorax and laterally below wing bases; dorso-lateral scale tufts of metathorax greyish-brown; tegula black with orange patch cranially and some orange scales caudally. Legs: fore- and midleg pale orange, each with black patch on tibia proximally; femur of midleg laterally blackishgrey; tibiae of midleg laterally densely mottled with blackish-grey; hindleg with coxa and femur blackish-grey, tibia and tarsus glossy black, tibia and first tarsomere interiorly orange; tibia exteriorly in distal half mottled with orange; spurs of all legs dark grey with pale yellow-orange tip. Wings: transparent areas well developed, large; margins, veins and discal spot black; forewing discal spot and apical area narrow, the latter with short, tooth-like protrusions between veins; hindwing discal spot short and small, triangular, reaching M 2; wing membrane of forewing in middle part, of hindwing in distal half with yellow-brownish tinge. Abdomen: glossy black; tergites 2 and 3, except for dorso-medial part densely, terminal tergites scarcely mottled with dark red scales; sternites 1–3 dark brownish-grey, 2 and 3 distally instead of disto-medially mottled with orange, 4–7 as well as outer side of valvae bright orangeyellow. Female and variation unknown.

Genitalia ( Fig. 31 ). Typically for the genus; crista sacculi of valva rather short, ventrad bent part sharply angled, rather long with length ratio of basal part and ventrad bent part 3:2, both parts densely covered with long setae; exophallus with a strong, sclerotized tooth distally.

Diagnosis. Very similar to T. flammipes , but differs having the metathorax dorsally and the tegulae near forewing base black (each red in T. flammipes ); the tibia of mid- and hindleg with black spot proximally (absent in T. flammipes ); the anal margin of the forewings orange (pure black in T. flammipes ); the forewings with small apical area (absent in T. flammipes ); the abdomen with orange-red suffusion on tergites 2 and 3 (according to Hampson 1910: pure black in T. flammipes ). In the male genitalia the valva is slightly shorter and broader, the apex somewhat narrower and longer and the crista sacculi shorter and broader, dorso-distally distinctly angled (not so in T. flammipes ) and denser covered with setae. Males of Tipulamima haugi and T. pterotarsa differ by their almost completely bluish-black coloration.

Figures

FIGS 15–26. Specimens of Tipulamima. 15. T. flammipes (Hampson, 1910), lectotype ♂. 16–17. T. pyrosoma Hampson, 1919, holotype ♀. 18–20. Tipulamima hesperia sp. nov. 18–19. ♂ Guinea, Nimba Mts. (20) ♂ Ghana, Kumasi. 21–23. T. grandidieri (Le Cerf, 1917). (21) holotype ♂. 22–23. ♂ Madagascar Est, Moramanga, Andasibe. 24–26. T. seyrigi Viette, 1955. (24–25) holotype ♀. (26) ♀ Madagascar, Sambirano. Scale 10 mm.

FIGS 29–31. Genitalia structures of Tipulamima. 29. T. flammipes (Hampson, 1910), lectotype ♂. 30. T. grandidieri (Le Cerf, 1917), ♂, Madagaskar, Tolongoina, Mandriandry (left valva removed). 31. T. hesperia sp. nov., holotype ♂, Guinea, Nimba Mts. Scale 1 mm.