Saccharodite virgula Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 159-160

Saccharodite virgula Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings broad, 1.8 times longer than wide, length in male 3.1–3.4 mm (mean = 3.2, n = 13). Colour stramineous to light brown; margins of facial carinae orange-red; centre of pronotum orange-red (holotype) or faintly orange or stramineous; most of frons and base of clypeus light orange; red marks on thoracic pleura, coxae, and middle and hind femora; mesonotum light brown, with an orange-red, rhomboid mark in posterior part, scutellum white; the anterior border of the rhomboid mark is not well defined, but the contrast to the white scutellum is conspicuous. Forewings glassy; faintly infuscated from apex of Cu to base of Ms1, and around apical crossveins; last subcostal sector accompanied by red; anterior apical crossveins, some sections of costal and hind margins, and veins around base of Ms1 and Ms2 bright orange-red; remaining veins stramineous to faintly orange. Hindwings colourless, but claval vein red. In profile junction of vertex and face slightly angulated; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae by a ridge. Forewings with Sc+R fork at middle of wing; basal median cell broad, about 2x as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process very slender and erect, about 4x longer than wide. Aedeagus with 2 small hooks at junction of stem and apical portion; apical part large, divided by a deep, longitudinal dorsal groove, the right side with a small dorsal hook near its middle, its tip pointed and slightly curved ventrad, the left side shorter, tapering to a pointed tip.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin noun ( virgula = a small branch) used in apposition.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.3 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) NORTH BORNEO ( SE)/ Forest Camp, 19 km / N. of Kalabakan / 60 m, 30.X.1962 2) K.J. Kuncheria / Collector / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Tawau, Quoin Hill , Cocoa Res. Stn., 19.IX.1962, 1 ♂, Y. Hirashima ; same locality as holotype, 10, 11, 18, 19.X.1962, 10, 16.XI.1962, 9 ♂ (fw. 3.1, 3x 3.2, 3.3, 2x 3.4), K.J. Kuncheria, Hirashima (all BPBM) ; BRUNEI: Labi / Bukit Teraja / 30km S.E. of Seria / 21– 28.iii.1979, primary mixed/dipterocarp/forest, alt. 60m, light trap 2/ 75m (1 ♂), 50m (2 ♂), 25m (2 ♂) and 1m (4 ♂) above ground/ L. Sutton /B.M. 1985-50, 9 ♂ (fw. 3.0, 3x 3.1, 3.4) ( BMNH) .

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite virgula resembles Sa. lata sp. nov., also from Borneo, however, it has uniformly light orange frons, genital styles with a very slender proximal dorsal process, and a different aedeagus structure.