Pectinimura paraliberalis Park & Karisch, 2022

Park, Kyu-Tek, Yu, Tae-Uk & Karisch, Timm, 2022, The family Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Ivory Coast (Republic of Côte d’Ivoire), with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 5162 (4), pp. 357-377 : 375-376

Pectinimura paraliberalis Park & Karisch , sp. nov.

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Type specimens. Holotype: male, Côte d’Ivoire, Gouédié , 25 km NW Man, Plantagen in Regenwaldfragmenten, 7°32′N Br. 7°45′W L. ca. 620 mNN, 18 viii 1997 LF (125 W HQL), leg. T. Karisch, gen. slide no. GU-3895/Karisch, in SDEI . Paratypes: 1♂, same data as the holotype ( MNVD) ; 1♂, same locality as the holotype, 20 viii 1997 LF (125 W HQL), in SDEI .

Diagnosis. This new species is similar to P. liberalis ( Diakonoff, 1954) in the superficial and the male genital characteristics which was described from Papua ( Indonesia), but it can be easily distinguished from the latter by the male genitalia with stout aedeagus.

Description. Male ( Figs. 13A, A 1 ). Wingspan 12–16 mm. Head: Light yellow dorsally. Antenna about 1.2 times longer than forewing; scape elongated, broadened apically, followed by eight segments of flagellum, covered with long tuft scales. 2 nd palpomere of labial palpus triangularly thickened by rough scales, brown dorsally, white ventrally; 3 rd palpomere slender, slightly arched, as long as 2 nd palpomere, Light yellow dorsally, grayish brown ventrally. Thorax: Pale brown. Hind tibia roughly scaled, pale yellow, spurs fuscous dorsally and ventrally. Forewing ground color pale yellowish-brown; with a grayish-brown, with comma-shaped discoidal spot; costa slightly arched in basal third; apex rounded; termen oblique; fringe yellowish-white basally, yellowish-brown to grayish-brown distally. Hind wing ground color grayish brown; discoidal cell and area between M 2 and CuA 1 covered with longer and curled scales; fringe grayish-brown, with a paler basal line.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 13B, B 1 ): Basal lobes of uncus poorly developed. Basal plate of gnathos triangular, narrowing toward apex. Costal bar connecting tegumen and valva prominently angled, sharply acute medially. Valva broad, strongly, nearly parallel-sided; costa nearly straight; ventral margin with broad expansion medially; sacculus sclerotized, terminated near middle of ventral margin of basal part of valva, connected to a linear band extending to near lower corner of cucullus, bearing long setae; pectinate plate oblique, about 2/3 the width of cucullus, with dense combs. Juxta slitted medially, with a pair of short, triangular lobes medially. Vinculum broad, with round apex. Saccus rounded.Aedeagus stout, as long as valva; cornuti consisting of a sclerotized linear band, strongly bent into U-shape, about 3/5 the length of aedeagus, and a patch of numerous spinules.

Female unknown.

Distribution. Ivory Coast (Montagne District).

Etymology. Named after the species name of P. liberalis Diakonoff , due to the similarity.

Remarks. The discovery of a Pectinimura species from Africa is an interesting fact, because the genus is known for the first time from the Afrotropical Region.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Topographical map of the region Northwest of Man, Black circles = collecting sites; inserted map: Ivory Coast with marked collecting area (arrow) (Openstreetmap, inserted map: Mapsland, CCA 3.0)

FIGURE 13. Pectinimura paraliberalis Park & Karisch, sp. nov.: A, Adult, holotype; A1, Labial palpus; A2, Label; B, Male genitalia, GU-3895/Karisch; B1, Aedeagus, in SDEI.