Glyphidocera infulae, DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005

DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), Zootaxa 858, pp. 1-158 : 50-51

Glyphidocera infulae , new species

(Figs. 72–74, 311, Map 13)

Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera infulae is similar to G. coronae but differs in its possession of a wider gnathos, a nearly straight costal furca of the valva, a broader cucullus, and a larger apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica.

Description.— Head: Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with pale brown; outer surface of labial palpus with brown scales tipped with pale brown, segment II with few pale­brown scales along distal margin; inner surface with segment I–II pale brown, segment III brown; scape of antenna brown, flagellum with alternating bands of pale­brown and brown scales; male 4th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a deep concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of 4th flagellomere; proboscis brown.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with brown scales tipped with pale brown. Legs with brown scales tipped with pale brown intermixed with pale­brown sales along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 311): Length 7.1–9.0 mm (n = 13), brown intermixed with brown scales tipped with pale brown and few pale­brown scales; cell with 2 large, faint spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Brown.

Abdomen (Fig. 72): Male with 5 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Sex scales between terga 2–3 appear slightly larger than those sex scales between terga 3–4.

Male Genitalia (Figs. 73–74): Uncus elongate, slightly constricted above a wide base, parallelsided apically, gradually tapering to a narrowly rounded and setose apex; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, apically upturned; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent medially, fusing from posteroventral margin of tegumen to base of uncus; costa of valva shallowly emarginate from a shallow depression beyond a basal digitate process to a slightly raised subapical area; apical furca aristate, slightly upturned; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva, slightly before middle, widening ventrodistally forming an elongate, broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a short, slightly rounded outer margin; vesica of aedeagus with rounded denticles, bearing a large, crescent­shaped cornutus; cornutus dilated basally, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.

Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, “Sector Cocori, 30 km al N de Cariari, Prov[incia] Limón, COSTA RICA, 100 m, Dic. 1993, E. Rojas, L­N­286000, 567500, # 2495”, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI001, 646686” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 673” [yellow label].

Paratypes (12 ɗ): 1 ɗ, “Est. Cuatro Esquinas, P. N. Tortuguero, 0 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, E. Rojas, 20 Set. – 7 Oct. 1990, L­N­280000, 590500”, “CRI000, 676844”, “Slide No. 836”; 1 ɗ, “Cerro Tortuguero, P.N. Tortuguero, 0­ 100 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, J. Solano, Mar. 1991, L­N­285000, 588000”, “CRI000, 197551”, “Slide No. 635”; 5 ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, Fca de E. Rojas, 150 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, E. Rojas, Abr. 1992, L­N­286000, 567500”, “CRI000, 786388”, “Slide No. 672”; “ Feb. 1993 ”, “CRI000, 998601”, “Slide No. 674”; “ Ago. 1993, # 2291”, “CRI001, 135571”, “Slide No. 675”; “ 28 May. a 17 Jun. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 738662”, “Slide No. 676”; “ Dic. 1993, # 2495”, “CRI001, 646694”, “Slide No. 702”; 1 ɗ, “Est. Magsasay, P. N. Braulio Carrillo, 200 m, Prov. Here., COSTA RICA, R. Aguilar, Nov. 1990, L­N­264600, 531100”, “CRI000, 226717”, “Slide No. 759”; 4 ɗ, “Est. Queb. Bonita, 50 m, Res. Biol. Carara, Prov. Punt., COSTA RICA, R. Zuniga, Ago. 1990, L­N­194500, 469850”, “CRI000, 181291 ”, “Slide No. 633”; “CRI000, 181261 ”, “Slide No. 637”; “CRI000, 181089 ”, “Slide No. 638”; “ Feb. 1991 ”, “CRI000, 680024”, “Slide No. 634”, (7 in INBio, 5 in USNM).

Distribution ( Map 13): Glyphidocera infulae is found in Costa Rica from the northern boarder along the Caribbean Coast, south­west to the Cordillera Central, south to the Pacific Coast along Río Tárcoles, near the mouth of the Golfo de Nicoya.

Etymology: The species epithet infulae is derived from the Latin “infula,” meaning bandage.