Singularia kofani Kovtunovich et Ustjuzhanin, 2022

Kovtunovich, V. N., Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya. & Streltzov, A. N., 2022, Two new species of plume moths of the genus Singularia Arenberger, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Colombia and Ecuador, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (1), pp. 62-64 : 63-64

Singularia kofani Kovtunovich et Ustjuzhanin , sp.n.

Figs 4–6 .

TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype female, ( ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1962)

ECUADOR: Pichincha, Camping Tambo Tanda , 1969 m, 0°01´22´´S, 78°38´48´´W, 25.x.2011, leg. Sinyaev & Romanov.

DESCRIPTION. External characters.Length of fore wings 18 mm. Head, thorax and tegulae covered with dark-grey hairs. Labial palpi short, straight, twice shorter than longitudinal eye diameter. Wings dark-grey. Wide oblique transverse white band on fore wing medially. Fringe inside cleft grey, basally noticeably lighter. Hind wings and fringe unicolorous dark-grey. Legs light-grey with white spurs.

Female genitalia. Papillae anales oval, elongated. Posterior apophyses long, straight. Lamina postvaginalis robust, sclerotized, wide, rounded, with two narrow elongated ribbon-like folds. Antrum narrow, tabulate, sclerotized, ostium extended, ductus of the same width as antrum but membranous.

DIAGNOSIS. In the wings color, the species is similar to Singularia brechlini Kovtunovich et Ustjuzhanin, 2016 , but differs in the oblique white band on the fore wing medially. In the female genitalia, in the shape of the lamina postvaginalis and antrum, the new species has no similarity to the other known species.

FLIGHT PERIOD. February.

DISTRIBUTION. Ecuador.

ETYMOLOGY. The species is named after Indian people Kofan, living in Ecuador and Colombia.

Acknowledgements. We express our deep gratitude to V. Sinyaev and O. Romanov (Moscow, Russia), for providing materials for examination. We also thank S. Reshetnikov (Novosibirsk, Russia) for the photographs of the adult specimens. The authors are grateful to A. Ustjuzhanina (Tomsk, Russia) for language improvements .

Competing interests. The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

Figs 4–6. Singularia kofani, sp.n.: 4 — adult, female, holotype; 5 — female genitalia, holotype (ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1962); 6 — female genitalia, side view. Рис. 4–6. Singularia kofani, sp.n.: 4 — имаго, самка, голотип; 5 — гениталии самки, вид сверху, голотип (ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1962); 6 — гениталии самки, вид сбоку.