Picardia bunga Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022

Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N. & Streltzov, Alexander N., 2022, Overview of the species of the genus Picardia Gibeaux, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) in the world fauna, with description of new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 52, pp. 12-23 : 17-19

Picardia bunga Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich , sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype, male, ( ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1984), Zimbabwe, Manicaland Prov., Bvumbe Bunga Forest , 19°07'14"S 32°46'10"E, h – 1650m; 04-05.XII.2010 P. Ustjuzhanin & V. Kovtunovich.

External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae with light-brown scales. Labial palpi brown, thin, slightly shorter than longitudinal eye diameter. Antennae thin, light-brown. Wingspan 18,5 mm. Fore wings yellowish-brown, with v-shaped brown spot at cleft base. Fringe inside cleft light-yellow. Small brown spot on first lobe distally. Three small narrow brown strokes on dorsal margin of second lobe. Hind wings of the same color as fore wings. Fringe on all wings light-yellow. Hind legs yellow.

Male genitalia. Valves narrow, elongated. At base of left valve, sclerotized clavate saccular process with prongs on top. On right valve, narrow saccular process, distally curved, medially with additional outgrowth sticking out perpendicularly to saccular process. Uncus narrow, slightly curved, apically acute. Anellus arms asymmetric, left arm slightly shorter than right arm. Saccus arched. Aedeagus 1.5 times shorter than valve, slightly curved distally.

Diagnosis. In the male genitalia, in the shape of the saccular process on the left valve, the new species is similar to Picardia bassi sp.nov, from which it differs in the prongs on the saccular process and the additional outgrowth on the saccular process of the right valve.

Flight period. December.

Distribution. Zimbabwe.

Etymology. Toponymic name.

Figures

Figure 6. Picardia bunga Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. Adult male (Holotype, ZISP).

Figure 7. Picardia bunga Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, sp. nov. Male genitalia (Holotype, ZISP, gen.pr. Nr.1984).